Motorcycle ride on the Sea of Tranquility

By Patricia Santana

Subjects: Siblings, Veterans, Family life, fiction, Mexican Americans, Fiction, general, Reading Level-Grade 12, Teenage girls, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Mexican American families, California, fiction, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Children's fiction, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, San diego (calif.), fiction, Brothers and sisters, Reading Level-Grade 10, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Family life

Description: "It's April, 1969, and fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagun can hardly wait to see her favorite brother, Chuy, newly returned from Vietnam. But when he arrives at the Welcome Home party the family has prepared in his honor it's clear that the war has changed him. The transformation of Chuy is only one of the challenges that Yolanda and the rest of her family face. This coming-of-age novel is an account of a summer that is still remembered as a crossroads in American life. Yolanda and her brothers and sisters learn how to be men and women and how to be Americans as well as Mexican Americans."--BOOK JACKET.