I am not your perfect Mexican daughter

Resource Information

The work I am not your perfect Mexican daughter represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in South Whitley Community Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

I am not your perfect Mexican daughter

Statement of responsibility

Erika L. Sánchez

Creator

• trueSanchez, Erika L.
• Sánchez, Erika L

Author

• Sánchez, Erika L

Subject

• Sisters -- Fiction
• trueSisters. -- Death
• trueViolence
• trueTeenage girls
• trueStereotypes (Social psychology)
• trueChildren of undocumented immigrants
• trueComing-of-age stories
• trueExpectation (Psychology)
• trueFifteen-year-old girls
• trueGrief
• Grief -- Fiction
• trueMexican American teenagers
• Mexican Americans -- Fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueSecrets

Genre

• trueComing-of-age stories
• Fiction
• trueRealistic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

When her sister, considered the perfect Mexican daughter by her parents, dies, Julia tries to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family despite her own grief and her mother's penchant for pointing out every possible way Julia has failed

Theme

• trueImmigrant experiences
• trueCoping with death

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueFunny
• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueCandid

Character

• trueCulturally diverse

Award

• School Library Journal Best Books, 2017
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018.
• Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, 2018.

Cataloging source

BT

Index

no index present

Intended audience

HL730L

Intended audience source

Lexile

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

730

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 10
• 12

Target audience

adolescent