Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks, and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex, her cute new neighbor. She decides it's time to seize control of her life, but her plans come crashing down when she learns her parents have been hiding the truth from her — the truth about her own body.
Waiting for the Biblioburro ~ by Monica Brown, illustrated by John Parra, 2011, children's (Columbia), 32 pages
Ana, who loves stories, is thrilled when a traveling library comes to her village. This book is based on the true story of Luis Soriano’s work establishing the Biblioburro program for kids in rural Colombia.
(These are two more books I put on reserve at my library for National Hispanic Heritage Month (click this link) that I recently told you about.
I remember hearing about the biblioburro when I became a librarian and I love the idea!
ReplyDeleteAnd the other book sounds really good, too.