A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl
who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In
Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets
mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business
in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs
that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets
mean leaving school when they reach puberty. No one in the village
wants to talk about this shameful problem. But Latika has had
enough. When a government representative visits their village, she
sees her chance to make one of her dreams come true: the
construction of public toilets, which would be safer for everybody
in her village. Burying the Moon shines a light on how a lack of
access to sanitation facilities affects girls and women in many
parts of the world. Key Text Features author's note illustrations
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character,
setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details
in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more
characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on
specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases
as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as
metaphors and similes. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5 Explain how a
series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the
overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements
contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic
novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or
drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the
characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases
as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative
meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning
and tone CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops
the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
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