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Publication date 2011 topics reading levelgrade 11, reading levelgrade 12 publisher. A resilient mexican american girl copes with familial obligation and loss in this freeverse novel. Under the mesquite is the story of a teenage girl facing incredible challenges in her life, and how those experiences and the family alongside her shape her into the woman she is meant to become. Mccall lives with her husband in the san antonio, texas, area.
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