Lupe Ruiz-Flores

Gebundenes Buch

The Pecan Sheller

Beschreibung

In 1930s San Antonio, after her father's death, thirteen-year-old Petra must quit school to work at a pecan shelling factory where dangerous conditions and low wages push her to take a vital stand for change.

Autor

Lupe Ruiz-Flores is the author of six bilingual picture books. She is a former Regional Advisor for the Southwest Chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and until recently its newsletter editor. Lupe has won the SCBWI Work-In-Progress Grant, the SCBWI/Amazon Work-in-Progress Grant, and the SCBWI Martha Weston Award. She is a member of the Writers League of Texas, Texas Library Association, Las Musas, and Kindling Words. She was awarded the Tejas Star Book Award for three consecutive years. Her poetry and short stories have been published in anthologies, including Thanku: Poems of Gratitude. She was recently inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lerner Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: 10 bis 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9798765610527
• Artikelnr.: 70995684