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Ay, Mija! : my bilingual summer in Mexico / Christine Suggs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2023.Edition: 1st edDescription: 315 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780316591928
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.868/72/073 B 23
LOC classification:
  • CT275.S8987 A3 2023
Summary: "[Inspired by two real-life trips, in this memoir] sixteen-year-old Christine takes their first solo trip to Mexico to spend a few weeks with their grandparents and t�ia. At first, Christine struggles to connect with their family they don't yet share a language with. Seeing the places their mom grew up--the school she went to, the cafe where she had her first date with their father--Christine becomes more and more aware of the generational differences in their family"--Provided by publisher.
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"[Inspired by two real-life trips, in this memoir] sixteen-year-old Christine takes their first solo trip to Mexico to spend a few weeks with their grandparents and t�ia. At first, Christine struggles to connect with their family they don't yet share a language with. Seeing the places their mom grew up--the school she went to, the cafe where she had her first date with their father--Christine becomes more and more aware of the generational differences in their family"--Provided by publisher.

Young Adult Follett School Solutions.

Accelerated Reader AR UG 2.8 1.0 521314. BR

Text chiefly in English with some Spanish.