Pig Park
Written by Claudia Guadalupe Martínez
Published by Cinco Puntos Press
It’s crazy! Fifteen-year-old Masi Burciaga’s neighborhood is becoming more and more of a ghost town since the lard company moved away. Her school closed down. Her family’s bakery and the other surviving businesses may soon follow. As a last resort, the neighborhood grown-ups enlist all the remaining able-bodied boys and girls to haul bricks to help build a giant pyramid in the park in hopes of luring visitors. Maybe their neighbors will come back too. But something’s not right about the entrepreneur behind it all. Then there’s the new boy who came to help, the one with the softest of lips.
Primary ISBN: 9781935955764
Publication Date: October 2014
Available As: Hardcover, Paperback
Young Adult, Age 14 or older
Community Represented: Mexican/Mexican American
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Coming of Age, Community Action, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Discrimination: Economic, Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: Romance, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Illness
Setting: United States (Chicago IL)
Character's Place in the Immigration Journey: Unknown Arrival
Book Creator(s) Connection to the Community Represented: Own Voices/Lived Experience
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