Becoming Maria : love and chaos in the South Bronx /

"Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Manzano, Sonia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Text in English.
Published:	New York : Scholastic Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Manzano, Sonia > Childhood and youth > Juvenile literature. Manzano, Sonia > Family > Juvenile literature. Coming of age > Juvenile literature. Television actors and actresses > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature. Television writers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature. Hispanic American women > Biography > Juvenile literature. JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / General. JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino. JUVENILE NONFICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues) Manzano, Sonia. Manzano, Sonia > Family. Coming of age > Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Actors and actresses. Television writers. Hispanic American women. Women > Biography.

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Fragments
Kid Diaper meets mystery girl
Family beatings
Poverty sing-along
Invisible girl
A Christmas fact of life
Hunger camp
Family mood swings
Queen for a day
Banishment, threats, and a suicide
Buried treasure
Breasts
Knives in the oven
Part 2. La lucha
Landing on Planet X
Estupida
West Side story
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Southern Boulevard
Vanessa Delmonte
Back to square one
Worlds collide
Agitation
Down with Puerto Rico
My dramatic life
Part 3. The beginning
Performing arts
Winner or loser?
What skin am I in?
The love and marriage bomb
Oozing opportunist
Free at last
Stages of fear
Black power
Godspell
Unhappy ending
The beginning.