Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.
An intense, tender, and eloquently written young adult novel, RED GLASS is an exploration not only of the immigration experience, but of family and love. When 16-year-old Sophie's family takes in an orphaned boy whose parents perished in a dangerous border-crossing from Mexico, she finds a sweet little companion who is embraced by her whole family. At the same time, Sophie falls in love and discovers that, to grow, she must challenge everything she fears.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: People + Places / Mexico, Social Issues / Emigration + Immigration, General
- Age: Teen
- Publisher: Delacorte Pr
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: September 11, 2007
- Date Published: September 11, 2007
- Author: Laura Resau