Synopses & Reviews
Raised by adoptive parents on a southern California farm, Millie Wolf is loved but lonely. Who were her birth parents? What happened to them and the rest of her Mexican family? Then a budding romance illuminates her identity and reveals the miracles of love and friendship - for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Your vivid descriptions of life in a small Mexican village, both in 1957 and twenty years later, left me feeling as though I had traveled there with you. - Sue Anne Gilroy Indiana Secretary of State This is a 'must read' book for young adults ... it encompasses the best of two cultures. - Graciana de Pea Brownsville, Texas educator The Tame Cactus is smooth and tender with a surprise ending. It's a curl-up-and-lose-yourself-in-the-pages kind of read. Esperanza Zendejas transports the reader through two cultures linked by a compelling heroine. - Anne Ryder
Synopsis
Raised by adoptive parents on a souther California farm, Millie Wolf is loved but lonely. Who were her birth parents? What happened to them and the rest of her Mexican family? Then a budding romance illuminates her identity and reveals the miracles of love and friendship for yesterday, today and tomorrow.