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Jasminne Méndez
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
Books Written in Verse (WPLD)
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
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A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.
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"The Pura Belpre Honor Award winning author of Aniana del Mar Jumps In makes her YA debut with a powerful novel-in-verse about a Texas teen who is battling racism in her theatre program and book banning efforts by her town's school board. Yulieta Lopez is angry. Angry at her racist drama teacher who refuses to cast Black students in lead roles. Angry at the school board threatening her favorite teacher for teaching works of literature that they deem...
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For Jasminne Méndez, pericardial effusion and pericarditis are not just an abnormal accumulation of fluid and increased inflammation around the heart. It's what happens "when you stifle the tears and pain of a miscarriage, infertility and chronic illness for so long that your heart does the crying for you until it begins to drown because its tears have nowhere to go."
Diagnosed with scleroderma at 22 and lupus just six years later, her life becomes...
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"Like all kids, Josefina loves to eat sweets. She loves warm chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven, cupcakes and candy! One night, while eating a piece of flan, Mami asks her to consider giving up sweets for Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter. 'That's impossible!' Josefina says. When Mami promises to teach her how to make her favorite dessert, habichuelas con dulce, she agrees to give it a try. Josefina can't wait to end her fast and eat...
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Aniana del Mar pertenece al agua como un delf̕n al očano, pero mantiene en secreto sus clases de nataci̤n. Hace ąos, a su mam̀ se le ahog̤ un ser querido y no se ha recuperado de la p̌rdida. Un d̕a, la artritis juvenil obliga a Aniana a guardar reposo. Entonces confiesa lo importante que es para ella nadar y, aunque el doctor cree que la nataci̤n puede ayudarla a mejorar, su mam̀ lo proh̕be. Esta es la historia de una nįa que debe crecer...
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Esta poderosa historia en verso gira en torno a una adolescente texana que lucha contra el racismo en su clase de teatro y contra los intentos de censura literaria por parte de la junta escolar. Se trata del debut en la literatura juvenil de Jasminne Mendez, galardonada con el Premio de Honor Pura Belpré por su novela Aniana del Mar se avienta. Yulieta López está furiosa. Furiosa con su profesora de teatro que se niega a elegir estudiantes negros...
9) Rizos
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"Marlene ama tres cosas: el arte, a su adorada t̕a Ruby y pasar el tiempo con Camilla, su mejor amiga. Pero su mam̀ piensa que se deber̕a enfocar solamente en sus estudios y en madurar; y esto ͠ltimo implica alisarse el pelo todos los fines de semana para que se vea "presentable" y "bueno". Pero Marlene odia ir al sal̤n y no entiende por qǔ nadie a su alrededor piensa que sus rizos naturales son bonitos. Despǔs de algunos desaf̕os y momentos...
11) Algo, algún día
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Reveals how even the smallest gesture can have a lasting impact on the world's biggest problems.
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"Cuando a una estudiante se le asigna el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma. La estudiante aprende cómo la gente que dice haber nacido sobre el agua sobrevivió."--...
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Pura Belpré Author Honor Award
** Four starred reviews!**
A powerful and expertly told novel in verse, by an award-winning poet, about a twelve-year-old Dominican American swimmer who is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis.
Aniana del Mar belongs in the water like a dolphin belongs to the sea. But she and Papi keep her swim practices and meets hidden from Mami, who has never recovered from losing someone she loves to the...
** Four starred reviews!**
A powerful and expertly told novel in verse, by an award-winning poet, about a twelve-year-old Dominican American swimmer who is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis.
Aniana del Mar belongs in the water like a dolphin belongs to the sea. But she and Papi keep her swim practices and meets hidden from Mami, who has never recovered from losing someone she loves to the...
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"In classic stories remixed, Latinx characters take center stage. Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A shape-shifter gives up her life to save the boy she loves from an evil bruja. La Ciguapa covets a little mermaid's heart of gold. Two star-crossed teens fall in love while the planet burns around them. Whether...