The pecan sheller
(2025)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Y/FICTION/RUIZ-FLORES,L

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Fiction Y/FICTION/RUIZ-FLORES,L Just Returned

Details

PUBLISHED
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, 2025
DESCRIPTION

249 pages ; 20 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9798765610527, 9798765610527
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Winner of the 2026 Belpré Medal

In 1930s San Antonio, after her father's death, thirteen-year-old Petra must quit school to work at a pecan shelling factory where dangerous conditions and low wages push her to take a vital stand for change

Ages 10-14

Grades 4-6

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