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[2017], Adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: REALISTIC F SAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Publisher Annotation: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents? house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga?s role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed. But it?s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first kiss, first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister?s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal?
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[2017], Adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: SET F SAN Edition: First edition. Availability:8 of 8 At Location(s) Summary Note: Publisher Annotation: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents? house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga?s role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed. But it?s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first kiss, first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister?s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal?
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[2017]., Adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Teen Fiction FIC SAN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Series Title: Project Lit 19-20Summary Note: Project LIT Book "Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed"--OCLC.
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2018., Adolescent, Vintage Español Call No: WORLD LANGUAGES FIC SAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Julia no es la perfecta hija mexicana. Ese era el papel de su hermana Olga, quien no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar de sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere el camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de Chicago, resulta en la muerte de Olga, dejando atrás a Julia para ocuparse de las secuelas.
