| Bless Me, Ultima Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Anaya, Rudolfo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0446675369 ISBN-13: 9780446675369 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1999 Annotation: When a curandera comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Coming Of Age - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Religion & Faith - Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.3" W x 8.12" (0.57 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 64624 Reading Level: 5.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" comes a coming-of-age classic and the bestselling Chicano novel of all time that follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs -- now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads" (Denver Post). Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past--a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world... and will nurture the birth of his soul. |