The Meaning of Consuelo

Award: 
Best Books for Young Adults
Year this Award was Won: 
2 004
Press release title and URL: 
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/annotations/…
Award Win Active Date: 
Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 19:00
Defunct Winner UID: 
2 798
Winner Rank: 
SLCT
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Meaning of Consuelo
Winner Description: 
by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Winner Blurb: 

A young girl tells her tragic story of coming of age in 1950s Puerto Rico.   Consuelo struggles to understand her place in the world as her father embraces each technological advance and the promise of wealth it offers, her mother reaches for the past and the natural beauty of the island, her closest friend and cousin begins to reveal his homosexuality, and her younger sister slips quietly into madness.

Title of a book, article or other published item (this will display to the public): 
The Meaning of Consuelo
ISBN of the winning item: 
0-374-20509-4
What type of media is this winner?: 
Book
Winner Detail Create Date: 
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 11:27
Winner Detail Change Date: 
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 11:27
Winner Detail Change ID: 
201
Winner Type: 
PTMD
Award Winner Category (start typing): 
Fiction