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Growing up with her large Mexican American family in San Diego in the late 1960s, fourteen-year-old Yolanda tries to help her favorite brother Chuy, a Vietnam veteran, who has returned from the war and is suffering emotional problems.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santana, Patricia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Mexican American families > Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Veterans > Fiction.
Post-traumatic stress disorder > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
San Diego (Calif.) > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Mexican Americans > Fiction.
Family life > California > San Diego > Fiction.
Description
Summary:Growing up with her large Mexican American family in San Diego in the late 1960s, fourteen-year-old Yolanda tries to help her favorite brother Chuy, a Vietnam veteran, who has returned from the war and is suffering emotional problems.
Physical Description:270 pages ; 21 cm.
Awards:American Library Association-YA, 2003.
ISBN:0826324355 (alk. paper)