![]() ![]() ![]() Who are producing work for young women that really dignifies their intelligence and dignifies their experience. I think there are many authors - and Isabel sits squarely in this group - who don't shy away from telling young people the truth. When we meet 17-year-old Gabi Hernandez, she's a senior in high school who's suffering from all the typical teenage problems. and that's one of the things I really loved about this book as well, because I think Latina girls reading this are going to see their families in this. It's just a really difficult set of realities to try to live with. ![]() not far, but it was, "are you crazy? Why would you do that? Why would you not, you know, live at home with your family until you're married?" That's what you're supposed to do. ![]() Well, what's really funny is while I was reading this, I remembered when it was time for me to go to college, and I had said to my mother that I might go. Because she skipped a year, she is a little younger than her peers, and she watches as many of them take risks and make difficult or outright bad choices. I think that non-Latino readers will be shocked to think, why doesn't her mother want her to go off to college. Gabi: A Girl in Pieces chronicles Gabi Hernandez’s senior year in high school. Meg Medina is a Cuban-American author who writes picture books, middle grade, and YA fiction. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (Paperback) Isabel Quintero (author) Sign in to write a review. ![]()
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