TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salazar,Aida
AU  - Cepeda,Joe
TI  - The moon within
SN  - 9781338283372
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
KW  - Racially mixed children
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Racially mixed families
KW  - Racially mixed people
KW  - Puberty
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Menstrual cycle
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Transgender children
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Best friends
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable 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--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life
ER  -