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Targeted at the middle grades, the
story centers around Tina, an 11-year-old girl who lives in a
multi-ethnic, middle-class city neighborhood. She is biracial and
bilingual, and her friends come from a mix of cultures found in many
modern urban communities. The story itself reflects the situation
of the students who read it. The subject matter is current, timely
and occasionally humorous, and should hold the interest of children
of varying ages.
"This will surely prove to be a favorite book among
both teachers and children because it captures children's interest and
offers stimulating topics for classroom discussion. I suspect that many
children will want to keep and re-read the book, since it speaks
directly to their age-related life issues."
- Dr. Nancy Boyd Webb,
Distinguished Professor of Social Work, Fordham
University; author,
Play Therapy for Children in Crisis
and
Mass Trauma and Violence
Click on the titles below for more information and to
read excerpts from each work.
Fiction:
"Teresa Bevin possesses the enviable talent to
write beautifully, succinctly and often humorously in both her native
language, Spanish and her adopted tongue, English. Her skills
extend to both fiction and academic writing. Her most recent
release Dreams and Other Ailments/Sueños y otros achaques is not
only an entertaining collection of tales in both English and Spanish,
but gives the readers a glimpse of the varieties of cultures that are
too often clumped under the label of 'latino."
Dreams and Other Ailments / Sueños y otros achaques
received ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year, 2001
Bronze Award for original translation and was a finalist for best
multicultural fiction award by the Independent Publishers in 2002.
Carolyn Ellis Gonzalez (University of
Texas) has written that in Bevin's first novel, Havana Split,
she "reveals an astonishingly
refreshing ability to write a fictional account of a Cuban exile's
life that is personal without being painfully passionate. "
Academic:
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