First Person Fiction: Call Me Maria Children's Self-Esteem Books and argues that abuse based

and argues that abuse based on power differences is no more justified than abuse based on color or gender differences

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then-Boston Globe reporter Ethan Bronner chronicles this engrossing story of a titanic struggle for political power

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First Person Fiction: Call Me Maria Children's Self-Esteem Books and argues that abuse basedA new novel from the award winning author of AN ISLAND LIKE YOU, winner of the Pura Belpre Award. Maria is a girl caught between two worlds: Puerto Rico, where she was born, and New York, where she now lives in a basement apartment in the barrio. While her mother remains on the island, Maria lives with her father, the super of their building. As she struggles to lose her island accent, Maria does her best to find her place within the unfamiliar