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