In keeping with the storyline and themes in Summer of the Mariposas...I have prepared this very special GIRL POWER playlist just for you...
If you and your hermanitas are feeling caged in like the Garza girls do at the beginning of the book, don't be afraid to say it...let your voice be heard, let the world know you are a free-spirit. There's nothing wrong with that...sing it girl!
"I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado
When you and your friends jump in the car and head out on an adventure, you don't have to follow the mariposas to have fun. You just have to belt it out, give it some ganas, revel in it!
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper
If you're feeling down, not because you've been abandoned, but because some days are just downers...then you definitely need to put your arms around your hermanitas and repeat the chorus... "Today is Your Day" with Shania Twain
When someone's burst your sopapillas, and love's running low in your life, pour some sugar on your sisters and wail along with Sister Sledge, to the tune of "We Are Family" or Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans 'Count on Me.'
Finally, when you're just happy to have a good sister by your side and want to enjoy her company, get on your bicycles (like Corinne Bailey Rae and her friends do in the video) and drawl out that tender, loving, sisterly tune… "Put Your Records On!"
Guadalupe Garcia McCall was born in Mexico and moved to Texas as a young
girl, keeping close ties with family on both sides of the border. Trained in Theater
Arts and English, her poetry for adults has appeared in over twenty literary
journals. Her debut book for young adults, Under the Mesquite (LEE & LOW BOOKS, 2011), won the American Library Association's 2012 Pura Belpré Award and was a William C. Morris YA Debut Award Honor Book. It was also included on the Young Adult
Library Services Association’s Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults list and was an Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Finalist from the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents.
Fifteen-year-old Odilia and her younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, and must outwit monsters and witches to make it back home again.