Like "Esperanza Rising" and "Rules of Attraction," this coming-of-age novel, "Some Rivers End on The Day of the Dead" follows a Hispanic teen, Marisol. She and her mother are on the run from their home in Tijuana, Mexico. Her father, investigating the drug wars as a journalist, has been murdered. But Marisol's new home is a riverbed camp in a rich California suburb. A wildfire separates Marisol from her mother and her school. Cut off and alone, she challenges herself to find a way to reunite with her family and to celebrate the Day of the Dead in Mexico to honor her father with the proper...
Like "Esperanza Rising" and "Rules of Attraction," this coming-of-age novel, "Some Rivers End on The Day of the Dead" follows a Hispanic teen, Marisol...
Who are the men lurking around her house? And what has happened to Gramps? Adalei is on the run. Gramps is the only family Adalei has ever known, and he has disappeared. And now, for reasons unknown, two strange men are after her. Why did Gramps just recently caution her to beware of trusting people? Then she sees a woman on television who looks eerily like her. Hiding out in the woods is no longer an option, and Adalei must risk heading out alone to find Gramps, to find this woman, and to save herself from those who would harm her.
Who are the men lurking around her house? And what has happened to Gramps? Adalei is on the run. Gramps is the only family Adalei has ever known, and ...