Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

by Sonia Manzano

Book Overview

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-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545621844
• ISBN13: 9780545621847
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12