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Under the mesquite by guadalupe garcia mccall, hardcover. My kids are really little 4 years and 2 years as of 511, so thats the sort of bambinos i usually talk about. I recently joined a blogger book club called teen lit rocks. This is not my first novel in verse although it my first youngadult versenovel since i devoured ellen hopkins works in middle schoolthis is nothing like those, for the record.
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