# Bless Me, Ultima

**Author:** Rudolfo Anaya
**Lexile:** 840L
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–18
**First published:** 1972
**Page count:** 262
**Genre:** Literary Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780446600255`
**ISBN-10:** `0446600253`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/bless-me-ultima
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- coming of age
- good versus evil
- religious and spiritual identity
- Chicano cultural heritage
- folk healing tradition
- family and generational conflict

## Content notes

- violence and death
- mature/sexual content (a brothel scene)
- profanity

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 14+

## Banned / challenged record

Documented removals or formal challenges in at least one school district in 1 state: AZ. Source: [PEN America's Index of School Book Bans](https://pen.org/banned-book-list/) 2022-2024.

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