Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
Born: 1978
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Martinez has lived in Chicago since 2002. Biography: Claudia Guadalupe Martinez grew up in El Paso, Texas where she learned that letters form words from reading the subtitles of old westerns for her father. She now lives in Chicago where she works for a non-profit whose mission it is to improve the educational experiences of public school children.
Awards:
- '''''The Smell of Old Lady Perfume'''''
- -- Summer Must Read List, Hispanic Magazine, 2008
- -- Best Middle Grade Book of the Year, Latinidad’s, 2008
- -- Best of the Best List, Chicago Public Library, 2008
- -- Southwest Books of the Year List, Pima County Library, 20
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Selected Titles
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NOT A BEAN. ISBN: 1580898157 OCLC: 1085591155 CHARLESBRIDGE PUBLISHING, [S.l.] : 2019. |
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Pig Park ISBN: 9781935955788 OCLC: 862149102 Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga's barrio becomes more like a ghost town every day, but when she and other youths are recruited to erect a giant pyramid in hopes of attracting tourists, she wonders about the entrepreneur behind the scheme--and his attractive son. |
| The smell of old lady perfume ISBN: 9781935955160 OCLC: 953824130 When sixth-grader Chela Gonzalez's father has a stroke and her grandmother moves in to help take care of the family, her world is turned upside down. |
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The smell of old lady perfume / ISBN: 1933693185 OCLC: 181368664 Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX : ©2008. When sixth-grader Chela Gonzalez's father has a stroke and her grandmother moves in to help take care of the family, her world is turned upside down. |