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Becoming Kid Quixote : a true story of belonging in America / Sarah Sierra and Stephen Haff.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: 215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062943262
  • 006294326X
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
About me -- Diade Los Muertos -- Rehearsals -- Our Lady of Guadalupe-- Hunter College -- Cleo Sings -- To the Library! -- My Abuela Araceli -- The Tower of Babel -- My Father -- My Abuela Beatriz -- My Tiger -- Easter -- The Universe -- My Mother -- The Morgan Library -- I'm Going to Middle School -- Ten Cousins -- The Recording Studio -- Mi Familia Is My Best of All -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: A young readers' companion to the adult novel Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff. Narrated by one extraordinary ten-year-old girl, this inspiring memoir tells the story of a daughter of Mexican American immigrants who finds her voice through the power of words and performance of Cervantes' Don Quixote. When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in time and discover the words of Miguel de Cervantes. But at Still Waters in a Storm, a teacher named Stephen and a group of kids have pushed together tables piled high with books so they can gather round to talk about and translate Cervantes' classic, Don Quixote de La Mancha. They begin to reimagine Don Quixote--the story of an idealistic dreamer from Spain who traveled around trying to right the world's wrongs--as the story of a group of modern-day kids from immigrant families in Brooklyn. The stories the kids write in class become a musical play--expressing the plight of today's immigrants and using Quixote as inspiration. And Sarah, once very shy, soon will play the leading role as Kid Quixote.
List(s) this item appears in: Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead)
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Biography Sierra, S. S572 Available 33111009642774
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A young readers' companion to the adult memoir Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff.

Narrated by one extraordinary ten-year-old girl, this inspiring memoir tells the story of a daughter of Mexican American immigrants who finds her voice through the power of words and performance of Cervantes' Don Quixote.

When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in time and discover the words of Miguel de Cervantes. But at Still Waters in a Storm, a teacher named Stephen and a group of kids have pushed together tables piled high with books so they can gather round to talk about and translate Cervantes' classic, Don Quixote de La Mancha.

They begin to reimagine Don Quixote--the story of an idealistic dreamer from Spain who traveled around trying to right the world's wrongs--as the story of a group of modern-day kids from immigrant families in Brooklyn.

The stories the kids write in class become a musical play--expressing the plight of today's immigrants and using Quixote as inspiration. And Sarah, once very shy, soon will play the leading role as Kid Quixote.

Perfect for fans of I Am Malala, Dear America, and The Freedom Writers Diary, this stirring true story will inspire you to imagine, to speak up, and to sing out.

A young readers' companion to the adult novel Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff. Narrated by one extraordinary ten-year-old girl, this inspiring memoir tells the story of a daughter of Mexican American immigrants who finds her voice through the power of words and performance of Cervantes' Don Quixote. When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in time and discover the words of Miguel de Cervantes. But at Still Waters in a Storm, a teacher named Stephen and a group of kids have pushed together tables piled high with books so they can gather round to talk about and translate Cervantes' classic, Don Quixote de La Mancha. They begin to reimagine Don Quixote--the story of an idealistic dreamer from Spain who traveled around trying to right the world's wrongs--as the story of a group of modern-day kids from immigrant families in Brooklyn. The stories the kids write in class become a musical play--expressing the plight of today's immigrants and using Quixote as inspiration. And Sarah, once very shy, soon will play the leading role as Kid Quixote.

About me -- Diade Los Muertos -- Rehearsals -- Our Lady of Guadalupe-- Hunter College -- Cleo Sings -- To the Library! -- My Abuela Araceli -- The Tower of Babel -- My Father -- My Abuela Beatriz -- My Tiger -- Easter -- The Universe -- My Mother -- The Morgan Library -- I'm Going to Middle School -- Ten Cousins -- The Recording Studio -- Mi Familia Is My Best of All -- Acknowledgments.

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