Pub Date: April 1, 2025
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2024008543
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to 14
Physical Info: 0.90" H x 7.80" L x 5.60" W ( 0.70 lbs) 256 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States 20th Century | Social Themes | Activism and Social Justice | Poverty and Homelessness
Description: In 1930s San Antonio, after her father's death, thirteen-year-old Petra must quit school to work at a pecan shelling factory where dangerous conditions and low wages push her to take a vital stand for change.
Brief description: Lupe Ruiz-Flores is the author of six bilingual picture books. She is a former Regional Advisor for the Southwest Chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and until recently its newsletter editor. She is a member of the Writers League of Texas, Texas Library Association, Las Musas, and Kindling Words. She was awarded the Tejas Star Book Award for three consecutive years and won the Pura Belpré Children's Author Award for The Pecan Sheller in 2026. Her poetry and short stories have been published in anthologies, including Thanku: Poems of Gratitude. She was recently inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
Review Quotes:
"Divided into short chapters and written in a straightforward style, the book provides a fascinating window into a seminal event in the fight for worker rights."--BayViews
-- (9/13/2025 12:00:00 AM)