Publisher: Stone Arch Books

Copyright Date: 2024

Edition Date: 2024 Release Date: 01/01/24

Illustrator: Nobati, Eugenia,

Pages: 112 pages

ISBN: 1-669-01275-1

ISBN 13: 978-1-669-01275-7

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2023020989

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
Mexican American families. Juvenile fiction.
Grandfathers. Juvenile fiction.
Diaries. Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools. Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology). Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans. Fiction.
Diaries. Fiction.
Middle schools. Fiction.
Schools. Fiction.
Identity. Fiction.
Grandfathers. Fiction.
El Paso (Tex.). Juvenile fiction.
El Paso (Tex.). Fiction.
Texas. Fiction.

Language: English

Word Count: 13,713

Reading Level: 5.6

Interest Level: 3-6

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.6 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 522630 / grade: Middle Grades

Sixth grade is hard enough, but Mexican American Selena Estrella Herrera has to do it in a new town. Her family has moved to El Paso to help care for her grandfather (who seems not to want them there and insists on speaking only Spanish). One upside to being at a new school, though, is that she can finally leave behind her embarrassing obsession with musical megastar Selenawhom her parents named her after even though she cant sing. She renames herself *Strella, avoids her grouchy grandfather, and tries to move on with her life. Then *Strella starts a National History Day project. The topic her team chooses? Selena. Can *Strella embrace her Tejano heritage and her old love of Selena and still become her own person? And will she ever discover what her own gifts are? In diary format, the Nuestras Voces series profiles inspiring characters from yesterday and today, and honors the joys, challenges, and outcomes of Latino experiences.