Sophia and her family live in McAllen, Texas. They discuss family and the reason's why they do things they way they do to honor their Mexican American heritage. Sophia wins a scholarship to a very affluent school in Austin, Texas. Her father ends up dying from cancer while she is attending school there. This is a great story about a girl coming to terms with her family and her wanting to be more.
I really enjoyed this book, I really liked reading the dialogue between Sophia and her father. He never tells her what to do, he just guides to think for herself. I laughed out loud about the plastic covers on her aunts furniture. My grandmother had her formal living room covered in plastic and whenever we sat on it, it stuck to us. This book would be great for junior high students. It's a great look inside to Mexican American heritage and could be used to compare how their life are similar or different from Sophia's.
I loved the word choice in this realistic fiction novel. I really could visualize the Barrio and could feel how Sophia felt at lunch when her lunches were different from all her classmates. I like who you were able to figure out what the Spanish words meant by using the context clues in the writing.
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