Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, [2024]
Format: Audiobooks
Description: 1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Life sucks when you're twelve. You're not a little kid, but you're also not an adult, and all the grown-ups in your life talk about your body the minute it starts getting a shape. And what sucks even more than being a Chinese-Filipino-American-Guatemalan who can't speak any ancestral language well? When almost every other girl in school has already gotten her period except for you and your two besties. Manuela "Mani" Semilla wants two things: To get her period, and to thwart her mom's plan of taking her to Guatemala on her thirteenth birthday. If her mom's always going on about how dangerous it is in Guatemala, and how much she sacrificed to come to this country, then why should Mani even want to visit? But one day, up in the attic, she finds secret letters between her mom and her Tia Beatriz, who, according to family lore, died in a bus crash before Mani was born. But the letters reveal a different story. Why did her family really leave Guatemala? What will Mani learn about herself along the way? And how can the letters help her to stand up against the culture of harassment at her own school?
Other Authors:
Aguilar, Allison, narrator.
Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.
Aguilar, Allison, narrator.
Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.
Subjects:
Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction.
Children -- Juvenile fiction.
Schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Guatemala -- Juvenile fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction.
Children -- Juvenile fiction.
Schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Guatemala -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: Grades 3 - 6.
ISBN:
9798891785373
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T PLAYAWAY Lapera | Main (Downtown) | Teen Playaway | In |
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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Previously released by Recorded Books.
Read by Allison Aguilar.
Sound files.
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Previously released by Recorded Books.
Read by Allison Aguilar.
Sound files.