All the Stars Denied
Lee & Low Books · Hardcover · October 9, 2018
In a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Pura Belpré Award Winner Guadalupe García McCall tackles the first mass deportation event in the US, which swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression.
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- Who it’s for
- A family’s fight to stay together brings a little-known chapter of American history close to home.
- Themes
- Mexican American deportation, Anti-Mexican discrimination, Family separation
- Genres
- Immigration for Teens, 20th-Century US YA, Prejudice & Racism for Teens
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In a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Pura Belpré Award Winner Guadalupe García McCall tackles the first mass deportation event in the US, which swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression. It's the heart of the Great Depression and Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among White farmers against Mexican Americans.
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All around town, signs go up proclaiming "No Dogs or Mexicans" and "No Mexicans Allowed." So when Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of Tejanos, her whole family becomes a target of "repatriation" efforts to send Mexicans "back to Mexico" -- whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not. Dumped across the border and separated from half her family, Estrella must figure out a way to survive and care for her mother and baby brother. How can she reunite with her father and grandparents and convince her country of birth that she deserves to return home? In this companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars Guadalupe García McCall reveals the hidden history of the first mass deportation event that swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression.
History, Close Up
A family’s fight to stay together brings a little-known chapter of American history close to home.
Come here for
- A Great Depression story shaped by prejudice and forced deportation
- Family bonds under pressure, without easy answers
Expect
- An urgent, intimate view of injustice and survival
- A young perspective on the meaning of home
Where it sits
| 20th-Century US YA | 77% |
|---|---|
| Prejudice & Racism for Teens | 52% |
| Immigration for Teens | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Mexico for Teens
- Immigration for Teens
- Authors
- Guadalupe García McCall
- Publisher
- Lee & Low Books
- Published
- October 9, 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Mexican American deportation · Anti-Mexican discrimination · Family separation
- Reading lane
- Mexico for Teens