All the Stars Denied

A Companion Novel to Shame the Stars

De: Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Narrado por: Victoria Villarreal

In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up proclaiming “No Dogs or Mexicans” and “No Mexicans Allowed.”

When Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos in their town of Monteseco, Texas, her whole family becomes a target of “repatriation” efforts to send Mexicans “back to Mexico”—whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not. Dumped across the border and separated from half her family, Estrella must figure out a way to survive and care for her mother and baby brother. How can she reunite with her father and grandparents and convince her country of birth that she deserves to return home?

There are no easy answers in the first YA book to tackle this hidden history. In a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Guadalupe García McCall tackles the first mass deportation event that swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression.

©2018 Guadalupe Garcia McCall (P)2023 Recorded Books

I loved it, even though I had to read it for a class

I loved the part where it said something like “As you lay dying in Abuelo’s arms, did you wonder how or why, as favored children of the sun, we are so often all the stars denied?” That part is where the author got the title from, (as you can see), and I really like that quote because it’s basically saying that black people are so tan that the sun loves them because they are hard to get sunburnt, and how everyone is racist to THEM, even though they are the suns favorite children.

History and Story Telling

I loved the way the author used English and Spanish to keep the text as authentic as possible. I love how well research the book was as w