Evangelina Takes Flight

Evangelina Takes Flight

  • Author: Noble, Diana J.
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558858480
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518501364
  • eISBN Epub: 9781518501340
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2017
  • Pages: 152

“If they do come here, they’ll show us no mercy,” thirteen-year-old Evangelina overhears her father say as she gathers eggs in the chicken pen. Back at the house, Mamá brushes away her fears of revolutionaries. There are even more chores than usual to be done at Rancho Encantado because her sister’s quinceañera celebration is rapidly approaching!

It’s the summer of 1911 in northern Mexico, and soon the de León family learns that the rumors of soldiers in the region are true. Evangelina’s father decides they must leave their home to avoid the violence. The trip north to a small town on the U.S. side of the border is filled with fear and anxiety as they worry about loved ones left behind and the uncertain future ahead.

Life in Texas is confusing, though the signs in shop windows that say “No Mexicans” and some people’s reactions to them are all-too clear. At school, she encounters the same puzzling resentment. The teacher wants to give the Mexican children lessons on basic hygiene! And one girl in particular delights in taunting the foreign-born students. Why can’t people understand that—even though she’s only starting to learn English—she’s just like them?

With the help and encouragement of the town’s doctor and the attentions of a handsome boy, Evangelina begins to imagine a new future for herself. This moving historical novel introduces teens to the tumultuous times of the Mexican Revolution and the experiences of immigrants, especially Mexican Americans, as they adjust to a new way of life.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Evangelina Takes Flight
    • Dedication
    • Acknowledgements
    • Part-I
      • Chapter One: The Coming Storm
      • Chapter Two: What Will Happen, Will Happen
      • Chapter Three: Predictable
      • Chapter Four: Tomás
      • Chapter Five: La Llorona
      • Chapter Six: Tamales
      • Chapter Seven: Quinceañera
      • Chapter Eight: The Box
      • Chapter Nine: Until Next Time
    • Part-II
      • Chapter Ten: Departure
      • Chapter Eleven: Thief
      • Chapter Twelve: A Different World
      • Chapter Thirteen: A Scruffy Bunch
      • Chapter Fourteen: Relief
      • Chapter Fifteen: Hopeless
      • Chapter Sixteen: What You Make of It
      • Chapter Seventeen: Proper Burial
      • Chapter Eighteen: Doctor Taylor
      • Chapter Nineteen: Ideal American
      • Chapter Twenty: Hard to Believe
      • Chapter Twenty-One: Selim
      • Chapter Twenty-Two: Separate the Inferior
      • Chapter Twenty-Three: Fraud
      • Chapter Twenty-Four: Love Thy Neighbor
      • Chapter Twenty-Five: The Enemy of Triumph
      • Chapter Twenty-Six: Mariposa Wings

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