From the award-winning author of Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, Alda
P. Dobbs, comes a compelling new novel about building a new life in
America. Strong and determined, Petra Luna returns in a story about the
immigrant experience that continues to be relevant today.
Petra Luna is in America, having escaped the Mexican Revolution and the
terror of the Federales. Now that they are safe, Petra and her family
can begin again, in this country that promises so much. Still,
twelve-year-old Petra knows that her abuelita, little sister, and baby
brother depend on her to survive. She leads her family from a
smallpox-stricken refugee camp on the Texas border to the buzzing city
of San Antonio, where they work hard to build a new life. And for the
first time ever, Petra has a chance to learn to read and write.
Yet Petra also sees in America attitudes she thought she'd left behind
on the other side of the Río Grande--people who look down on her mestizo
skin and bare feet, who think someone like her doesn't deserve more from
life. Petra wants more. Isn't that what the revolution is about? Her
strength and courage will be tested like never before as she fights for
herself, her family, and her dreams.
Petra's first story, Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, was a New York
Public Library Book of the Year and a Texas Bluebonnet Master List
Selection.