Cecilia's year

Description:

Nearly fourteen and poor, Ceclia Gonzales wants desperately to go to high school and become a teacher until her mother's old-fashioned ideas about a woman's place threaten her dreams.

subjects: Books and reading,  Family life,  Farm life,  Fiction,  History,  New Mexico,  Schools,  Sex role,  Hispanic-American women,  Teenage girls,  The Thirties (20th century),  Hispanic-Americans,  Fourteen-year-old girls,  Hispanic-American families,  Women's role,  Families,  Ambition in teenage girls,  Family,  Juvenile fiction,  Determination in teenage girls,  Hispanic-American teenage girls,  Children's fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Schools, fiction,  Sex role, fiction,  Books and reading, fiction,  Mexico, fiction

Places: New Mexico

Times: 20th century