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What Can't Wait is a young-adult novel by Ashley Hope Pérez, published by Carolrhoda Lab in 2011. The story portrays a Mexican American teenage girl living in Houston who is torn between the demands of her family and her ambitions for the future. Read More..

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Description	What Can't Wait is a young-adult novel by Ashley Hope Pérez, published by Carolrhoda Lab in 2011. The story portrays a Mexican American teenage girl living in Houston who is torn between the demands of her family and her ambitions for the future. Karen Coats of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books wrote that this novel portrays how many immigrant families do not want their teenagers to absorb Americanized attitudes even though the immigrants came to the U.S. to get a better life.Coats, Karen. " What Can(t) Wait" (Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review) The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, April, 2011, Vol.64(8), p.388(1). Available at Project MUSE. This is the author's first novel.Juan Castillo of NBC News wrote that this book and another one of Pérez's novels, The Knife and the Butterfly, explore what it means to grow up as a Hispanic or Latino teenager in the United States "amid difficult circumstances."Castillo, Juan. " Ashley Hope Pérez's 'Out of Darkness': Young Love Amid Racism, Segregation" ( Archive). NBC News. September 1, 2015. Retrieved on November 8, 2015.The book was released on March 1, 2011." What Can't Wait " ( Archive). Publishers Weekly. April 18, 2011. Retrieved on November 13, 2015.
Description	What Can't Wait is a young-adult novel by Ashley Hope Pérez, published by Carolrhoda Lab in 2011. The story portrays a Mexican American teenage girl living in Houston who is torn between the demands of her family and her ambitions for the future. Karen Coats of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books wrote that this novel portrays how many immigrant families do not want their teenagers to absorb Americanized attitudes even though the immigrants came to the U.S. to get a better life.Coats, Karen. " What Can(t) Wait" (Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review) The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, April, 2011, Vol.64(8), p.388(1). Available at Project MUSE. This is the author's first novel.Juan Castillo of NBC News wrote that this book and another one of Pérez's novels, The Knife and the Butterfly, explore what it means to grow up as a Hispanic or Latino teenager in the United States "amid difficult circumstances."Castillo, Juan. " Ashley Hope Pérez's 'Out of Darkness': Young Love Amid Racism, Segregation" ( Archive). NBC News. September 1, 2015. Retrieved on November 8, 2015.The book was released on March 1, 2011." What Can't Wait " ( Archive). Publishers Weekly. April 18, 2011. Retrieved on November 13, 2015.

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Name	What Can't Wait
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Authors	Ashley Hope Pérez
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Genre	Young adult fiction
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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