What Can't Wait
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What Can't Wait is a young adult novel by Ashley Hope Pérez, published by Carolrhoda Lab in 2011. The story portrays a Mexican American teenage girl living in Houston who is torn between the demands o
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Chávez High School (Houston)
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César E. Chávez High School is a secondary school located at 8501 Howard Drive in the Allendale neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States.
What Can't Wait
…Pedro - He attempts to rape Marisa. The author, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, served in Teach for America, and worked as a teacher at Chávez High School in Houston. The neighborhood depicted in this novel is similar to the real neighborhood around Chávez High. Marisa's high school's sports team is the…
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