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Pérez, Ashley Hope

What Can't Wait

234 pp. | Carolrhoda Lab | March, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7613-6155-8 $17.95
(4) YA Seventeen-year-old Marisa puts her dysfunctional, nearly poverty-ridden family above everything, including her passion for AP calculus. Struggling to help support her family, have a social life, and pursue her dream of studying engineering in college, she nearly loses herself--until the too-tidy ending. Pérez's perspective on Mexican American culture in Texas is authentic; the gritty setting and hard-knocks characters carry the story.
Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

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