Book Club: For Boys – María Dolores Águila's A Sea of Lemon Trees

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Discussing Newbery Honor-winning author María Dolores Águila's A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez. Her setting is San Diego, 1931, when twelve-year-old Roberto begins attending a separate "Americanization" school for the Mexican children attending the Lemon Grove Grammar School. Based on true events. For children and their caregivers ages 9-12.West Portal Boys' Book Club Suggested Titles