5 Books in this collection
Guadalupe García McCall Collection
This collection includes novels for older readers by renowned novelist and Pura Belpré Author Award Winner, Guadalupe García McCall. They are sure to engage with a range of high-interest topics and complexity to meet all students' needs. With these books, readers get to know and read about McCall's beloved characters, family dynamics, and the power of memory and love.
Themes & Categories
- Breaking Gender Barriers
- Childhood Experiences / Memories
- Conflict resolution
- Courage
- Dreams & Aspirations
- Empathy / Compassion
- Families
- Fiction
- Forgiveness
- Friendship
- Gratitude
- Grief / Coping with Death
- Latine / Latino / Hispanic
- Optimism / Enthusiasm
- Persistence / Grit / Overcoming Obstacles
- Poetry / Story in Verse
- Responsibility
- Sharing & Giving / Collaboration
- Siblings & Cousins
- United States History
- English
- Spanish
- Tu Books
Books in This Collection
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All the Stars Denied
By Guadalupe García McCall, Susan L. Roth
All the Stars Denied
By Guadalupe García McCall, Susan L. RothView DetailsIn a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Pura Belpré Award Winner Guadalupe García McCall tackles the hidden history of the United States and its first mass deportation that swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression.
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El verano de las mariposas
By Guadalupe García McCall, David BowlesView Details -
Shame the Stars (Shame the Stars #1)
By Guadalupe García McCallView DetailsIn the midst of racial conflict and at the edges of a war at the Texas-Mexico border in 1915, Joaquín and Dulceña attempt to maintain a secret romance in this young adult reimagining of Romeo and Juliet.
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Summer of the Mariposas
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Under the Mesquite
By Guadalupe García McCallView DetailsLupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mother's long illness.
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