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Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

By: Sonia Manzano

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Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

By: Sonia Manzano

Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1970s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and nosy neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an alcoholic father. But it is Sonia's dream of becoming an actress that keeps her afloat among the turbulence of her life and times. Spiced with culture, heartache, and humor, this memoir paints a lasting portrait of a girl's resilience as she grows up to become an inspiration to millions.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545621860

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9780545621861

A World Together

By: Sonia Manzano

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A World Together

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A picture book about unity for people around the world"--

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National Geographic Books

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1426337388

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9781426337383

Miracle on 133rd Street

By: Sonia Manzano

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Miracle on 133rd Street

By: Sonia Manzano

The day before Christmas, everyone in Jose's neighborhood seems grumpy, including his mother who is homesick for Puerto Rico, but when he and his parents return from the pizzeria where they borrowed an oven to cook their roast, the heavenly aroma reminds those they pass of all they have to celebrate.

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Simon and Schuster

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0689878877

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9780689878879

Coming Up Cuban

By: Sonia Manzano

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Coming Up Cuban

By: Sonia Manzano

From Pura Belpre Honoree and Emmy-award winning actor Sonia Manzano--best known as "Maria" from Sesame Street--comes the expansive and timeless story of four children who must carve out a path for themselves in the wake of Fidel Castro's rise to power. Fifteen-time Emmy Award winner and Pura Belpre honoree Sonia Manzano examines the impact of the 1959 Cuban Revolution on four children from very different walks of life. In the wake of a new regime in Cuba, Ana, Miguel, Zulema, and Juan learn to find a place for themselves in a world forever changed. In a tumultuous moment of history, we see the lasting affects of a revolution in Havana, the countryside, Miami, and New York. Through these snapshot stories, we are reminded that regardless of any tumultuous times, we are all forever connected in our humanity.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338065327

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9781338065329

A Box Full of Kittens

By: Sonia Manzano

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A Box Full of Kittens

By: Sonia Manzano

Ruthie loves Superman. Ruthie wants to be Superman. And when Ruthie is asked to go spend the afternoon with her aunt, who is about to have a baby any day day now and may need some help., Ruthie seizes the opportunity. It could be her chance to be a hero, should the baby come while she's visiting! But when Ruthie is out fetching a snack for her aunt, she gets so distracted by a box full of kittens in the bodega that she doesn't hear her aunt calling for her, nor does she notice the policemen running to the apartment or the ambulance pulling to the curb. When she realizes what's happened, she's devastated -- she's missed her one chance to be a hero! Or has she? Sonia Manzano, best known as "Maria" on Sesame Street, once again captures the warmth, love, and adventures of her childhood Bronx neighborhood.

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Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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0689830890

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9780689830891

No Dogs Allowed!

By: Sonia Manzano

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No Dogs Allowed!

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When Iris, her family, and the neighbors take a trip to Enchanted Lake, everyone brings what they think is needed, but the family dog turns out to present a problem.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416938389

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The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

By: Sonia Manzano

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The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

By: Sonia Manzano

One of America's most influential Hispanics -- 'Maria' on Sesame Street -- presents a powerful novel set in New York's El Barrio in 1969There are two secrets Evelyn Serrano is keeping from her Mami and Papo? her true feelings about growing up in her Spanish Harlem neighborhood, and her attitude about Abuela, her sassy grandmother who's come from Puerto Rico to live with them. Then, like an urgent ticking clock, events erupt that change everything. The Young Lords, a Puerto Rican activist group, dump garbage in the street and set it on fire, igniting a powerful protest. When Abuela steps in to take charge, Evelyn is thrust into the action. Tempers flare, loyalties are tested. Through it all, Evelyn learns important truths about her Latino heritage and the history makers who shaped a nation. Infused with actual news accounts from the time period, Sonia Manzano has crafted a gripping work of fiction based on her own life growing up during a fiery, unforgettable time in America, when young Latinos took control of their destinies.

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0545469589

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9780545469586

Coming Up Cuban

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Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

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A Box Full of Kittens

By: Sonia Manzano

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Miracle on 133rd Street

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A World Together

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A picture book about unity for people around the world"--

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No Dogs Allowed!

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No Dogs Allowed!

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When Iris, her family, and the neighbors take a trip to Enchanted Lake, everyone brings what they think is needed, but the family dog turns out to present a problem.

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UXL Hispanic American Biography

By: Sonia Benson,Rob Nagel

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UXL Hispanic American Biography

By: Sonia Benson,Rob Nagel

Profiles one hundred Hispanic Americans, living and deceased, who have made notable contributions in various fields such as politics, literature, entertainment, science, and athletics.

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0787665991

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Feminism on the Border

Chicana Gender Politics and Literature

By: Sonia Saldívar-Hull

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Feminism on the Border

Chicana Gender Politics and Literature

By: Sonia Saldívar-Hull

Sonia Saldívar-Hull's book proposes two moves that will, no doubt, leave a mark on Chicano/a and Latin American Studies as well as in cultural theory. The first consists in establishing alliances between Chicana and Latin American writers/activists like Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga on the one hand and Rigoberta Menchu and Domitilla Barrios de Chungara on her. The second move consists in looking for theories where you can find them, in the non-places of theories such as prefaces, interviews and narratives. By underscoring the non-places of theories, Sonia Saldívar-Hull indirectly shows the geopolitical distribution of knowledge between the place of theory in white feminism and the theoretical non-places of women of color and of third world women. Saldívar-Hull has made a signal contribution to Chicano/a Studies, Latin American Studies and cultural theory." —Walter D. Mignolo, author of Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking "This is a major critical claim for the sociohistorical contextualization of Chicanas who are subject to processes of colonization--our conditions of existence. Through a reading of Anzaldua, Cisneros and Viramontes, Saldívar-Hull asks us to consider how the subalternized text speaks, how and why it is muted? How do testimonio, autobiography and history give shape to the literary where embodied wholeness may be possible. It is a critical de-centering of American Studies and Mexican Studies as usual, as she traces our cross(ed) genealogies, situated on the borders." —Norma Alarcon, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

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Univ of California Press

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0520207335

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9780520207332

Book's by Sonia Manzano

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

A World Together

A World Together

Miracle on 133rd Street

Miracle on 133rd Street

Coming Up Cuban

Coming Up Cuban

A Box Full of Kittens

A Box Full of Kittens

No Dogs Allowed!

No Dogs Allowed!

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

Coming Up Cuban

Coming Up Cuban

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

A Box Full of Kittens

A Box Full of Kittens

Miracle on 133rd Street

Miracle on 133rd Street

A World Together

A World Together

No Dogs Allowed!

No Dogs Allowed!

UXL Hispanic American Biography

UXL Hispanic American Biography

Feminism on the Border

Feminism on the Border

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