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The Pecan Sheller
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Winner of the Pura Belpré Children's Author Award
A Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Book of the Year
Junior Library Guild Selection
In 1930s San Antonio, thirteen-year-old Petra dreams of going to college and becoming a writer.
But with her beloved father dead, two younger siblings to care for, and with a stepmother struggling to make ends meet, Petra has to drop out of school to shell pecans at a factory. Hoping it's only temporary, she tries not to despair over the grueling work conditions. But afte...