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For María Isabel Salazar López, the hardest thing about being the new girl in school is that the teacher doesn't call her by her real name. "We already have two Marías in this class," says her teacher. "Why don't we call you Mary instead?"
But María Isabel has been named for her Papá's mother and for Chabela, her beloved Puerto Rican grandmother. Can she find a way to make her teacher see that if she loses her name, she's lost the most important part of herself?
But María Isabel has been named for her Papá's mother and for Chabela, her beloved Puerto Rican grandmother. Can she find a way to make her teacher see that if she loses her name, she's lost the most important part of herself?
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It’s my hope that young readers ponder their own identities after they see how Marcus learns to explore his own. I hope they can discover a part of their own identities that they never knew, to bridge a gap, or to fill a void that only family and culture can fill. I also wrote Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish to honor the people of Puerto Rico. After the hurricanes devastated the island in September 2017, I felt a […]
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