Wishing on a star with Estrella : a diary from 2022 to 2023 / by Vanessa Ramos ; illustrated by Eugenia Nobati.
Material type:
TextSeries: Nuestras voces (Stone Arch Books)Publisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 112 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781669012795
- 1669012794
- 9781669012757
- 1669012751
- Diary from 2022 to 2023
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | New | RAMOS VANESSA | Available | 33111011245905 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Sixth grade is hard enough, but Mexican American Selena Estrella Herrera has to do it in a new town. Her family has moved to El Paso to help care for her grandfather (who seems not to want them there and insists on speaking only Spanish). One upside to being at a new school, though, is that she can finally leave behind her embarrassing obsession with musical megastar Selena--whom her parents named her after even though she can't sing. She renames herself *Strella, avoids her grouchy grandfather, and tries to move on with her life. Then *Strella starts a National History Day project. The topic her team chooses? Selena. Can *Strella embrace her Tejano heritage and her old love of Selena and still become her own person? And will she ever discover what her own gifts are? In diary format, the Nuestras Voces series profiles inspiring characters from yesterday and today, and honors the joys, challenges, and outcomes of Latino experiences.
"Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Latino."
Ages 8-12. Stone Arch Books.
Grades 4-6. Stone Arch Books.
RL: 3-5 ; IL: 3-7.
Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.