TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - teenagers
KW - social workers
KW - suburbs
KW - foster care
KW - Cuban Americans
KW - Latino/Latina/Latinx Americans
AU - Lee McClain
AB - Alicia Jiminez is an inner-city Latina and foster teen who is placed into an affluent suburb and high school where she struggles to adapt.
C1 - 2000s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Alicia Jiminez is an inner-city Latina and foster teen who is placed into an affluent suburb and high school where she struggles to adapt.
PB - SMOOCH / Dorchester Publishing Company
PP - New York
PY - 2006
RN - Lee Tobin McClain (1960- ) is a writer and teacher in Greensburg, Westmoreland County. She is professor of English at Seton Hill University's Master of Fine Arts in Popular Fiction Program.
EP - 178 p.
TI - My Loco Life
ER -