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Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco

di Judith Robbins Rose

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Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML: With humor and sensitivity, a debut novelist explores the coming of age of a girl caught between two cultures as she finds the courage to forge a new destiny. "Miss, will you be my Amiga?" Amiga means "friend" in Spanish, but at the youth center, it meant a lady to take you places. I never asked myself if two people as different as Miss and me could ever really be amigas. When Jacinta Juarez is paired with a rich, famous mentor, she is swept away from the diapers and dishes of her own daily life into a world of new experiences. But crossing la linea into Miss's world is scary. Half of Jacinta aches for the comfort of Mam� and the familiar safety of the barrio, while the other half longs to embrace a future that offers more than cleaning stuff for white people. When her family is torn apart, Jacinta needs to bring the two halves of herself together to win back everything she's lost. Can she channel the power she's gained from her mentor and the strength she's inherited from Mam� to save her shattered home life? .… (altro)

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Jacinta and her family live in Colorado. Although Jacinta and her two sisters were all born in the USA and are legal citizens, Mama and Papi are not. They are always in danger of deportation and even though Jacinta is growing up in the United States, sometimes her life feels like a different world from the kids around her. She meets a local newswoman by chance and the two start a friendship that teaches both of them lots of unexpected lessons.

Terrific story about the American immigrant experience and what it means for kids of immigrants. Strong female characters abound! Timely and a great read! (

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klnbennett | Oct 7, 2020 |

Narrated by Marisol Ramirez. Ramirez brings a strong voice to the tensions and coping techniques of living as a family with undocumented relatives, in particular Jacinta's suspenseful pursuit to bring her mother home. Jacinta is portrayed as annoyingly persistent and self-centered as she insinuates herself into "Miss's" orbit. "Miss" comes off not as the glamorous TV anchor Jacinta sees but a cynical single mom waging a sex discrimination lawsuit at work. Despite the constant "snorts" and "smirks" in the narrative, this is a revealing book about the challenges some families face just to get by. (

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Salsabrarian | May 17, 2016 |

Jacinta's family is living in the US illegally and lives in fear of deportation. Her mom has had to go back to Mexico to take care of her own mother. Jacinta misses her terribly and looks to the center she attends for a mentor to take the place of her mom. She finds "Miss", a local reporter who has come to do a story about the girls in the center and even though Miss wasn't really looking to be a mentor, Jacinta worms her way in. I didn't really love Jacinta's character but I really liked reading about characters in situations I don't know anything about, and that was definitely this book. (

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imtanner2 | Nov 15, 2015 |

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Colorado Book Award (Finalista – Juvenile Literature – 2016)

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Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML:

With humor and sensitivity, a debut novelist explores the coming of age of a girl caught between two cultures as she finds the courage to forge a new destiny.

"Miss, will you be my Amiga?"
Amiga means "friend" in Spanish, but at the youth center, it meant a lady to take you places.
I never asked myself if two people as different as Miss and me could ever really be amigas.

When Jacinta Juarez is paired with a rich, famous mentor, she is swept away from the diapers and dishes of her own daily life into a world of new experiences. But crossing la linea into Miss's world is scary. Half of Jacinta aches for the comfort of Mam� and the familiar safety of the barrio, while the other half longs to embrace a future that offers more than cleaning stuff for white people. When her family is torn apart, Jacinta needs to bring the two halves of herself together to win back everything she's lost. Can she channel the power she's gained from her mentor and the strength she's inherited from Mam� to save her shattered home life?

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