Tequilacat bookreader4/16/2023 “Don’t take advice from tequila, that’s the tarot’s job.” 36-37 about Sofia being called a taco head and discuss bullying and ways to deal with it and discuss how Sofia used that incident to motivate herself to be successful in order to beat that girl.Embrace the magic of tarot and perfectly match the cards with mixed drinks in this beautifully illustrated bar book. Read the following article to the class about the author and the inspiration behind writing the book: īooktalk suggestion: Read pgs. Readers of all backgrounds will easily connect with Sofia as she grows up, becomes a comadre, and helps rebuild the powerful, affectionate community that raised her.” School Library Journal: “the story is a good addition to most collections.”īooklist: “finds both humor and absurdity in sharply observed, painful situations-from weathering slurs and other blatant harassment to learning what it means to leave her community for a privileged, predominately white school. Sofia did learn the lessons of knowing what it means to be a comadre. This plaza helped reunite the barrio and restore it to what it had been during her childhood. The reader sees Sofia struggle with the death of a parent and instead of letting it keep her down, she pushes forward, and shares her father's secret to getting rid of homesickness (eating the tequila worm) with her new found friends.She goes on to become a lawyer and does return to the old neighborhood to fix up a small plaza just like her mother and her comadres always loved. Readers will especially enjoy that Sofia does realize her father’s dream by graduating from Harvard, just like JFK. Fortunately, her roommate Brooke stands up against Terry and everything works out. ![]() Terry loves to point out these facts and even goes so far as to steal her home altar materials and puts them in the chapel for all to see. Sofia is one of few Mexican American students at the school, is Catholic, and not rich. Sofia also conflicts with the new setting of her boarding school. Sofia does not understand Berta’s interest in the “sappy charro movies” that they both had been making fun of no long before. The story begins with Berta and Sofia continuously fighting over chocolate bars and cascarones and evolves into Berta growing up and maturing more quickly than Sofia. Sofia experiences several conflicts throughout the novel. Others, like Berta, love the security and familiarity of the old neighborhood and wish to stay there and raise their own children in the same manner that they were raised. ![]() Like Sofia, many teens are interested in going out into an unknown world and finding their way, finding a path that no one in their family as taken before. Hispanic teens will enjoy reading about their heritage in this book, but all readers will see themselves in the characters and experience the lessons learned in the story. Readers will enjoy Tia Petra and her love of covering everything with plastic and will enjoy watching Sofia and Berta grow from squabbling children to young women with very different dreams. This is a simple story to read as the language is easily understood and the mixing of the Spanish language adds a touch of authenticity such as “cascarones,” “pan dulce,” and “chambelan.” The author does not translate the phrases into English, but readers can easily detect their meaning through context clues. This first person point of view story contains a good deal of their Mexican heritage and the reader gets a feel for the family and all it values and treasures. ![]() When she is awarded a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school in Austin, Sofia must make a difficult decision that affects everyone.Ĭanales does a nice job of introducing Sofia and her Mexican American family to readers. Sofia’s childhood is spent with her loving Mexican-American family in a Texas border town.
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