I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
by Erika L. Sánchez • Related Edition: Spanish-Language
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
- Latino (US / Canada)
Year Published 2017
Word Count 81,040
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 193218, 12 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Spanish
- Subject Headings
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Siblings
- Mexican American families--Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and daughters
- Sisters--Fiction
- Grief--Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Death & Dying
- Mexican Americans
- Illinois--Chicago
- Mexican Americans--Fiction
- Sisters--Death
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction
- Grief
- Chicago (Ill.)--Juvenile fiction
- Mexican American families
- Children's Books/All Ages
- Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction
- Sisters--Death--Juvenile fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Siblings
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino
- Grief--Juvenile fiction
- Mexican Americans--Juvenile fiction
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Awards & Distinctions 6
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Selection, 2018
Tomás Rivera Book Award, 1996-2025
Winner, 2018
YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2003-2023
Winner, 2018
International Latino Book Awards, 2000-2024
Second Place Winner, 2017
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2017
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