La Luna Dentro de Mi (Spanish Edition)

by Aida Salazar (Author)

La Luna Dentro de Mi (Spanish Edition)
Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
A dazzling story told with the sensitivity, humor, and brilliant verse of debut talent Aida Salazar.La vida de Celi Rivera es un torbellino de preguntas... por los cambios en su cuerpo, por sentirse atraída por un chico por primera vez y por la exploración que hace su mejor amiga de lo que significa ser género fluido. Pero, sobre todo, por la insistencia de su madre en hacerle una ceremonia lunar cuando le llegue su primer periodo. Se trata de un ancestral ritual mexica que Mima y su comunidad han rescatado, pero Celi se promete a sí misma que NO participará en él. ¿Encontrará dentro de sí la fortaleza necesaria para defender quién quiere ser? Celi Rivera's life swirls with questions. About her changing body. Her first attraction to a boy. And her best friend's exploration of what it means to be gender-fluid. But most of all, her mother's insistence she have a moon ceremony when her first period arrives. It's an ancestral Mexica ritual that Mima and her community have reclaimed, but Celi promises she will NOT be participating. Can she find the power within herself to take a stand for who she wants to be?
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Aida Salazar
Aida Salazar is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice. She is the author of the middle-grade verse novels The Moon Within (International Latino Book Award Winner), Land of the Cranes (Amricas Award Winner), the picture book anthology, In the Spirit of a Dream, and the picture book biography Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter. She is a founding member of Las Musas, a Latinx kidlit debut author collective. Her short story "By the Light of the Moon" was adapted into a ballet production by the Sonoma Conservatory of Dance and is the first Xicana-themed ballet in history. She lives with her family of artists in Oakland, California.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781338631067
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Scholastic en Espanol
Publication date
June 20, 2020
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV057000 - Juvenile Fiction | Stories in Verse (see also Poetry)
JUV039020 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
JUV060000 - Juvenile Fiction | LGBT
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
JUVENILE FICTION
Spanish language materials
Novels in verse
Mothers and daughters
Best friends
Racially mixed people
Life change events
Transsexuals
Rites and ceremonies
Transgender people
Puberty
Racially mixed children
Materiales en espaanol
Racially mixed families
Transgender children
Menstrual cycle
Transgender fiction
Madres e hijas
Mother-daughter relationship
Personas mestiza
Mejores amigos
Sucesos vitales
Pubertad
Ritos y ceremonias
Ciclo menstrual

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