My YA Pick for June is The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales. That title would generally not have convinced me to pluck a book from the library shelf, but for some reason (desperation? wrestling it away from the Lone Star Baby? I don't actually remember), I did check it out and I am very glad that I did. This book is a novel-in-stories about Sofia, a girl from the barrios of McAllen, Texas who has big dreams that take her to a boarding school in Austin...but never truly away from her family, or her "solar system of comadres" who have taught her the importance of being a good comadre and finding out how she is supposed to use her gifts to make the world a better place.
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