53 pages • 1 hour read
Patricia BeattyLupita Manana
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Literature
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter (1913)
This famous young readers’ book has many similarities to Beatty’s book. Pollyanna is an orphaned girl who must live with a relative who does not want to care for her, but her perpetual positivity changes all those around her. Beatty has taken Porter’s main character and turned her world upside down in Lupita Mañana.
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (2021)
Engel tells the story of a girl Lupita’s age who must, like her, travel across the country to a rendezvous that will take her away from Colombia to the US; she is an American-born girl trying to return to her unauthorized immigrant family in the US.
Further Reading: Beyond Literature
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum (2009)
This historical nonfiction book details the disastrous effects of American immigration policy over the past 100 years.
Video & Podcast Resources
“Deportee (Plane Crash Over Los Gatos Canyon)” by Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman, performed by Arlo Guthrie and Hoyt Axton (1948)
This YouTube video link is one of the better reproductions of Guthrie’s song. Guthrie was deeply offended when a radio newscaster referred to the victims of the plane crash as “just deportees.
