2015 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, Top 10 Selection.2015 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults.2015 Tomás Rivera Book Award, Works for Older Children.2015 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens.But, of course, I can’t tell my mom that because she will think I’m bad.
I mean, this is America and the 21st century not Mexico one hundred years ago. I don’t necessarily agree with that whole wait until you’re married crap, though. That’s as far as the birds and the bees talk has gone. So now, every time I go out with a guy, my mom says, “Ojos abiertos, piernas cerradas.” Eyes open, legs closed. That story is the basis of my sexual education and has reiterated why it’s important to wait until you’re married to give it up. My mom has told me the story many, many, MANY, times of how, when she confessed to my grandmother that she was pregnant with me, her mother beat her. My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who, coincidentally, didn’t want to meet me when I was born because my mother was unmarried, and therefore living in sin. And best of all, the poetry that helps forge her identity. Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in her diary: college applications, Cindy’s pregnancy, Sebastian’s coming out, the cute boys, her father’s meth habit, and the food she craves. To read our thoughts on the novel, see our Book Review.
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The complete guide is available for download at no cost: Vamos a Leer Educator’s Guide: Gabi, A Girl in Pieces. The standards are not included here, but are included with each section of the lesson plans in the PDF. The following information comprises a standards-based educator’s guide that the LAII has produced to support using Serafina’s Promise in the classroom.
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero is the selection for the LAII’s Vamos a Leer book group meeting held on September 14, 2015. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
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