Rebecca Balcarcel

Gebundenes Buch

Shine On, Luz Véliz!

Beschreibung

Eleven-year-old injured soccer player Luz has a hard enough time reframing her identity as a computer programmer, but when her Guatemalan half-sister moves in, she learns what it truly means to start over. Includes author's note.

Autor

Rebecca Balcárcel took her MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College's Writing Seminars and received their Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize. The Other Half of Happy won the Pura Belpré Author Honor, which recognizes literature for children or youth that best portrays the Latinx cultural experience. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Third Coast and North American Review, and her book of poems is titled Palabras In Each Fist. She currently serves the students of Tarrant County College as Associate Professor of English and lives in Belford, Texas. Find her on YouTube as the SixMinuteScholar.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chronicle Books
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 153mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781797209678
• ISBN-10: 1797209671
• Artikelnr.: 62562543