Into the Beautiful North

This powerful novel from a bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author tells the story of a young woman's journey--both emotionally and physically--as she travels north to America.

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village -- they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men -- her own "Siete Magnv?ficos" -- to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over.

Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, Into the Beautiful North is the story of an irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 05/19/2009
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.28w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780316025270

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.2
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 135971 / Into the Beautiful North

Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Recommended

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/19/2009 pg. 35
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2009 pg. 61
Library Journal 02/15/2009 pg. 98
Booklist 04/01/2009 pg. 20
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2009
Vanity Fair 06/01/2009 pg. 62
Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/01/2010 pg. 10

About the Author
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonficiton The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea is also the bestselling author of the novels The Hummingbird's Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, and Queen of America, as well as the story collection The Water Museum, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist.

He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago.