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Velasquez, Gloria – 1994
This book relates the fictional story of Juanita Chavez, a Mexican-American teenager who unjustly faces expulsion from school after fighting with a White student who was spreading rumors about her family. Juanita knows that if she is expelled this will greatly disappoint her parents and shatter her dream of becoming the first one in her family to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Agricultural Laborers, Boards of Education, Due Process
