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Pecan sheller
Author: Ruiz-Flores, Lupe

Publisher: Carolrhoda (2025)

Classification: Fiction
Physical Description: 249 p., 20 cm

BTSB No: 770696

ISBN: 9798765610527

Ages: 10-14

Grades: 5-9

Subjects:
Strikes -- Fiction
Mexican Americans -- Fiction
Employee rights -- Fiction
Pecans -- Fiction
Grief -- Fiction
San Antonio (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction

Price: $14.99

Summary:
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.

Accelerated Reader Information:
   Interest Level: MG
   Reading Level: 4.50
   Points: 6.0   Quiz: 554818

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Kirkus Reviews (+) (02/01/25)
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