On the Home Front..Valentina

On the Home Front..Valentina

Oviedo, Claudia

Series: Nuestras Voces
Library Bound

In 1940, eleven-year-old Valentina lives in Texas, with her Mami, Papi, and two brothers. Valentina loves reading and learning, she hopes to become a teacher and writer one day. Her brothers enlist. She helps with the war effort at home, all for a country who may not like Mexican Americans.

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Copyright: 2024
Pub Date: -
Size: 7.5 x 5.25
Pages: 112
Interest Grade: 3-7
Reading Level: -
Classification: Fiction
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AR: -
Lexile: 760
Dewey: Fic
Language: English
Penworthy Release: 08-2023
ISBN: 9781669012726
Item #: 54851
Available : 9
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Price: $19.99

Key words: Historical Fiction, Homefront, World War II, Texas, Family, Mexican American, Diary Format, Latino, Nuestras Voces, Lang/Lit
Chapter, Fiction, Smithsonian, Stone Arch, Capstone Press


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Witness Latino history through first-person diary tales. Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Latino, each story in the Nuestras Voces series features a young Latino character’s experience during key moments in American history.