Canales, Viola. The Tequila Worm.CANALES, Viola. The tequila tequila Distilled liquor, usually clear in colour and unaged, made from the fermented juice of the Mexican agave plant. (See agave family.) It contains 40–50% alcohol. worm. Random House, Wendy Lamb. 199p. c2004. 0-385-74674-1. $15.95. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association. This unusually warm, loving family story probably will be best enjoyed by those close to the Mexican American Mexican American n. A U.S. citizen or resident of Mexican descent. Mex  i·can-A·mer heritage. Canales herself grew up in McAllen, Texas, as part of such a family that she writes about. Like her heroine, Sofia, she too left the barrio bar·ri·o n. pl. bar·ri·os 1. An urban district or quarter in a Spanish-speaking country. 2. A chiefly Spanish-speaking community or neighborhood in a U.S. city. behind to attend a boarding school more than 300 miles from home, when she was in high school. The story begins (awkwardly for YAs) when Sofia is quite young, taking her first communion The First Communion (First Holy Communion) is a Roman Catholic ceremony. It is the colloquial name for a person's first reception of the sacrament of the Eucharist. Roman Catholics believe this event to be very important, as the Eucharist is one of the central focuses of the Roman at church, arguing with her cousin Berta over chocolates; soon, however, the girls are in middle school. Berta is dreaming of her quinceanera and Sofia is thinking of her studies and need to see the wider world, yet the girls come together. Sofia helps Berta have the most wonderful party ever; and Berta helps Sofia persuade her parents to let her accept the scholarship to boarding school and leave home. Sofia's experiences at St. Stephen's in Austin continue the story, where she tries to combine her heritage with the WASP wasp, name applied to many winged insects of the order Hymenoptera, which also includes ants and bees. Most wasps are carnivorous, feeding on insects, grubs, or spiders. They have biting mouthparts, and the females have stings with which they paralyze their prey. traditions of the school. Throughout she comes to treasure her own family customs as she moves away from them. One shallow student at St. Stephen's looks at the altar in her dorm room and says, "Aren't Mexicans obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with death?" Later, when death becomes all too real for Sofia, she understands how her family has from the beginning helped prepare her for accepting death as a part of life. The novel is about a family of story tellers Story Teller (sold as Story Time in Australia and New Zealand) was a magazine partwork published by Marshall Cavendish between 1982 and 1985. Publishing History The original Story Teller was released in 1982 as a fortnightly (bi-weekly) partwork. , and it is told as an arrangement of family stories that help us understand Sofia's world, the one she grows up in, the one she leaves behind, and in the final chapter, the one she returns to as a professional woman seeing how so much has changed and thinking of how she can restore some small part of the old neighborhood. The narrative is filled with Spanish words and rich with descriptions of food and music and celebrations. Absolutely essential for multicultural literature collections. Claire Rosser, KLIATT J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advance students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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