A loose adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s Summer of the Mariposas, published in 2012, follows five Mexican American sisters on an epic journey from Texas to Mexico. Drawing deeply from Mexican folklore, the book’s genre blends magical realism and fantasy. The book was a 2013 Andre Norton Award Nominee, won the Westchester Fiction Award, and made the list of 2012 School Library Journal Best Books. Guadalupe Garcia McCall was born in Piedras Negras in Coahuila, Mexico, before immigrating to Eagle Pass, Texas, with her family when she was six.
They believed the Church of England was too similar to the Roman Catholic Church and should eliminate ceremonies and practices not rooted in the Bible.
Explanation:
Puritans felt that they had a direct covenant with God to enact these reforms.
