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**Four starred reviews!** A farm-working girl with big dreams meets
activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for workers'
rights in this tender-hearted novel in verse, perfect for fans of
Rita Williams-Garcia and Pam Munoz Ryan. Lula Viramontes aches to
one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader
in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape
harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under
dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mama,
who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to
avoid Papa's volatile temper, it's hard to hold on to those dreams.
Then she meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor
rights activists and realizes she may need to raise her voice
sooner rather than later: Farmworkers are striking for better
treatment and wages, and whether Lula's family joins them or not
will determine their future.
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When Moon Blooms
Aida Salazar; Illustrated by Caribay M Benavides
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R174
Discovery Miles 1 740
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Ultraviolet
Aida Salazar
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R514
R421
Discovery Miles 4 210
Save R93 (18%)
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Can love break your heart--literally? For Elio, eighth grade fizzes
with change. In his body. With his pops, who makes them join a
father-son group to talk about puberty and manly stuff and being
Mexican. And especially around Camelia, his first girlfriend, whose
golden aura distorts his vision. When Elio finds out Camelia has
been hanging out with Chava, and that he's been pressuring her into
kissing him, Elio's emotions spiral and he craves revenge. Little
does he know a fight with Chava will land him in the hospital with
a real heart condition, and that Camelia isn't looking for a
savior. What will it take for Elio to learn what it really means to
be a man, a true friend, and an ally? In poems that radiate color
and crackle with comedy and candor, Ultraviolet digs deep into
themes of consent, toxic masculinity, and the emotional lives of
boys as it challenges stereotypes about how they are socialized to
behave. This vibrant, authentic story, centering an irresistible
Chicano hero struggling to figure out who he wants to be, is the
highly relatable coming of age story every tween and young teen
needs.
Fabio flies through the streets of Bogota on his bicycle, the
children of his neighborhood trailing behind him. It is there that
life feels right-where the world of adults, and their lies, fades
away. But then one day, he simply forgets. Forgets how to ride his
bicycle. And Fabio will never be the same again. From Colombia
comes a special debut talent, Alejandra Algorta, and a first novel
of discovery and heartbreak. Algorta's distinct and poetic prose
has been translated by award-winning author Aida Salazar, and
presented in English and Spanish.
Celebratory, triumphant, and inspiring, In the Spirit of a Dream is
a tribute to American immigrants of color, written in poems and
illustrated by 13 first- and second-generation immigrant artists.
In the spirit of a dream, many immigrants of color set out across
continents, oceans, and borders, travelling to the United States in
pursuit of opportunity. This book is a celebration of 13 American
immigrants of color, from world-famous to local heroes,
politicians, surgeons, athletes, activists and more. The
biographies include engineer and astronaut Anousheh Ansari;
Paralympic athlete and entrepreneur Alejandro Albor; surgeon Ayub
Khan Ommaya; jazz musician Candido Camero; dancer Conceicao
Damasceno; Sriracha inventor and businessman David Tran; basketball
player Dikembe Mutombo; author Edwidge Danticat; politician Ilhan
Omar; comic artist Jim Lee; environmental activist Juana Guttierez;
cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and the Undocupoets, a group of undocumented
poets. These stories are told in poems by Aida Salazar and artwork
by Alina Chau, Bianca Diaz, Dion MBD, Fahmida Azim, Gaby
D'Alessandro, Jose Ramirez, Ken Daley, Nicole Xu, Paulo D. Campos,
Rahele Jomepour Bell, Tracy Guiteau, Vanessa Flores, and Yasmin
Imamura.
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