The Smell of Old Lady Perfume

Claudia Guadalupe Martínez's debut novel for tweens garnered lots of praise. Recommended by the Chicago Public Library as the Best of the Best in 2008, it's a bittersweet story about death, family, and the resilient emotional strength of the human heart. When Chela Gonzalez's father has a stroke, her grandmother comes to help. The house fills up with the smell of her old lady perfume, a smell that carries with it sorrow and loss.

Claudia Guadalupe Martínez grew up in El Paso, Texas. She learned that letters form words from reading the subtitles of old westerns for her father.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 05/24/2011
ISBN: 9781933693880
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.90w x 0.70d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 129053 / Smell of Old Lady Perfume
Reading Level: 4.7 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 5