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Torres, Jennifer. STEF SOTO, TACO QUEEN New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018 IL 3-6 ISBN 9780316306843 (2 booktalks) |
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Booktalk #1 Imagine waiting in the car pickup line at school and your dad arrives, not in the family car, but in a big run-down food truck named Tía Perla. In fact, you can smell the cilantro and onions before you even see Tía Perla pull up. Stef can't imagine anything more embarrassing than riding around town in the family taco truck! But when her best friend invites her to a concert, Stef has another worry: will her overprotective parents let her go? And what about the town's new food truck laws? Is their family business in trouble? What will Papi do for money? You'll love this fresh, honest story of what it means to be a family. (Prepared by: Kellyanne Burbage, Mitchell Elementary School, kellyanneburbage@charleston.k12.sc.us for South Carolina Book Award) Booktalk #2 Why can’t Estafania
“Stef” Soto just be like everyone else? Her classmates
can go to the mall alone, attend the biggest concert of
the year, and have cell phones. They can walk home
from school, but Stef still gets picked up, in Tía
Perla, the family taco truck, no less. Tía Perla seems
to be the root of many of Stef’s problems lately, and
Stef wishes she would just disappear. Her former best
friend would have to stop calling her “The Taco Queen”.
When the city introduces new food truck regulations,
jeopardizing the family business, Stef wonders if her
dream is about to come true. But is it a dream worth
having if it means her papi loses his? Can Stef figure
out a way to save Tía Perla and prove to her parents
that she is responsible enough for a little more
independence? |
| SUBJECTS: Family life -- Fiction. Food trucks -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Mexican Americans -- Fiction. |
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