In early nineteenth-century Mexico, sixteen-year-old Leona Vicario, loyal to Spain and engaged to a wealthy widower, comes to terms with her growing revolt against Spain’s harsh treatment of Mexicans and her love for a young revolutionary lawyer.
Related: Americas, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mexico
- ISBN: 9780374343828
- Author: Trevi, Elizabeth Borton de
- Published: 1994
- Themes: Adolescence, Multicultural and cross-cultural
- Descriptors: Americas, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mexico