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A Bridge Home Paperback – May 31, 2024

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"Jacqueline Bravo can't understand why she's being called to the principal's office and is shocked to learn her mother hasn't paid her tuition at St. Bernadette High School in three months! Now Sister Mary Grace is threatening to kick her out and even recommends a vocational school until she gets married. Finances have been tight ever since Jacqui's father was killed in Vietnam. She is determined to win the alumni scholarship to UCLA, and there's no way she will transfer to a public or vocational school in her senior year--never mind get married! But she doesn't want her younger siblings to have to leave St. Patrick's either; her sister is already hanging out with unsavory boys and Jacqui knows it would only get worse at the local school. So, she starts looking for a way to earn money and help make ends meet. Without telling her mom, Jacqui gets a job at a local restaurant. She struggles to manage school and work, volunteering with an organization fighting to improve the barrio and new friendships, including with a boy she has had a crush on forever. When the police come to the restaurant looking for a former waitress who is now missing, Jacqui gets pulled into the mysterious goings-on. Why does the owner want her to cross the border into Mexico to buy supplies? Is what people say about drugs being sold there true? Introducing teens to the struggles of women and Mexican Americans for equal rights in the 1970s, this appealing novel deals with death and grief, relationships among family and friends and the importance of believing in your community--and yourself!"
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  1. Print length
    292 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Pinata Books
  4. Publication date
    May 31, 2024
  5. Reading age
    13 - 17 years
  6. Dimensions
    5.51 x 0.87 x 8.43 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1558859950
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1558859951
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"Frazier highlights elements of California history that are often overlooked, portraying the strength of a community in giving its people a bridge to a better life. With its honest teenage voice and a gritty realism that evokes what life would have been like for a Mexican American teenager in the California of the 1970s, this novel stands out. An excellent example of historical fiction that teaches and also transports."—Kirkus Reviews

“Jacqui’s a sympathetic, authentic and resourceful character worth rooting for. Readers will find themselves swept up into this compulsively readable and engaging story of a teenager struggling to make a better life for herself.”—Booklist (starred review)

About the Author

MONA ALVARADO FRAZIER is the author of The Garden of Second Chances (SparkPress, 2023). Her writing has been included in Basta! 100+ Women against Gender Violence (University of Nevada, Reno Latino Research Center, 2017) and Palabritas, a Harvard literary journal. She is a member of SCBWI and Macondo Writers and co-founder of LatinxPitch, an annual X event. She lives with her family in Oxnard, California.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pinata Books (May 31, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1558859950
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1558859951
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 - 17 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.87 x 8.43 inches

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Mona Alvarado Frazier

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After decades of working with incarcerated youth, Mona Alvarado Frazier is fulfilling her passions of writing and traveling. When not doing either of those, she’s reading, hiking, watching K-dramas, or tending her succulent gardens and two grand kitties.

The University of Nevada, Reno anthology Basta! Latinas Against Gender Violence and Palabritas, a Harvard literary journal, has published Mona’s short stories.

She is a member of SCBWI and Macondo Writers and a co-founder of #LatinxPitch, a Twitter event.

Her second novel, A BRIDGE HOME, a YA historical fiction, is scheduled for publication on May 31, 2024.

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