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233 pp.
| Holiday |
April, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8234-3756-6$16.95
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EbookISBN 978-0-8234-3827-3
(2)
4-6
Fourteen-year-old Rose is a member of a traditional Russian Jewish family living in 1915 El Paso. After she spots her missing brother in a photo of the "notorious gang of Mexican outlaw Pancho Villa," she tries to persuade him to come home. The novel complicates the plucky-girl trope and places it within a combination of cultures not often seen in historical fiction.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2017