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2023., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: SC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Contains a collection of sixteen short stories and poems by BIPOC authors about periods, puberty, and menstruation, and explores the varying responses to menstruation in different cultures.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Fic Sal Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Describes in verse how eleven-year-old Celi Rivera is anxious about her approaching period because her mother wants to hold a traditional Mexican moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion. Meanwhile, Celi's best friend explores what it means to be gender fluid, and Celi explores her feelings for a boy. However, when the boy she has a crush on makes mean comments about her best friend, Celi must make a decision.
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Ã2019., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body. She is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion. She must choose loyalty to her life-long best friend who is contemplating an even more profound change of life or the boy she likes"--Provided by publisher.
