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The (r)evolution of Evelyn Serrano

by Sonia Manzano

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It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.

Puerto Rican familiesProtest movementsGrandparent and childJuvenile fictionFamily lifeGrandmothersFictionPuerto RicansIdentity (Psychology)HistoryIdentityChildren's fiction