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La luna dentro de mí (The Moon Within)

La luna dentro de mí (The Moon Within)

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A dazzling story told with the sensitivity, humor, and brilliant verse of debut talent Aida Salazar.

La vida de Celi Rivera está llena de incertidumbre. Incertidumbre cuando su cuerpo comienza a cambiar. Incertidumbre cuando por primera vez se siente atraída por un chico. Incertidumbre cuando su mejor amigo comienza a explorar el significado de ser "género fluido".

Pero, sobre todo, incertidumbre cuando su madre comienza a insistir en hacerle una ceremonia lunar cuando le llega la primera regla. Este es un antiguo ritual mexica que Mima y su comunidad han rescatado, pero Celi se promete a sí misma que ella no va a formar parte de esto. ¿Podrá encontrar dentro de sí la fuerza para tomar partido por lo que en realidad 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?

ISBN-13: 9781338631067

Media Type: Paperback(Spanish-language Edition)

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Publication Date: 06-02-2020

Pages: 240

Product Dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

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 (Américas Award Winner), and the forthcoming biography picture book Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter. With Yamile Saied Méndez, she is slated to co-edit Calling the Moon, a middle-grade anthology on menstruation by writers of color. 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 a teal house in Oakland, California.