Once I Was You -- Adapted for Young Readers
eBook - ePub

Once I Was You -- Adapted for Young Readers

Finding My Voice and Passing the Mic

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Once I Was You -- Adapted for Young Readers

Finding My Voice and Passing the Mic

About this book

"When Maria speaks, I'm ready to listen and learn." —Lin-Manuel Miranda Emmy Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Maria Hinojosa has created a brand-new, unique version of her adult memoir, which was an NPR Best Book of 2020, for young readers, blending her story with perspectives on history in the vein of Jason Reynolds's Stamped. "There is no such thing as an illegal human being." Maria Hinojosa is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, a bestselling author, and was the first Latina to found a national independent nonprofit newsroom in the United States. But before all that, she was a girl with big hair and even bigger dreams. Born in Mexico and raised in the vibrant neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chicago, Maria was always looking for ways to better understand the world around her—and where she fit into it.Here, she combines stories from her life, beginning with her family's harrowing experience of immigration, with truths about the United States's long and complicated relationship with the people who cross its borders, by choice or by force. Funny, frank, and thought-provoking, Maria's voice is one you will want to listen to again and again.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time in Mexico
  6. Chapter 2: Coming to America
  7. Chapter 3: Caught Between Two Worlds
  8. Chapter 4: Being Different in Hyde Park
  9. Chapter 5: Invisible Borders
  10. Chapter 6: This Is What Democracy Looks Like
  11. Chapter 7: Putting Down Roots
  12. Chapter 8: A Different Kind of Church
  13. Chapter 9: The Drive South
  14. Chapter 10: A Girl Named Maria
  15. Chapter 11: Growing Pains
  16. Chapter 12: Looking Privilege in the Eye
  17. Chapter 13: Boy Crazy
  18. Chapter 14: The War That Nobody Wanted
  19. Chapter 15: Life After High School
  20. Chapter 16: In a New York Minute
  21. Chapter 17: Freshman Year
  22. Chapter 18: Embracing My Latina-ness
  23. Chapter 19: Finding My Voice on the Airwaves
  24. Chapter 20: Travels with Jorge
  25. Chapter 21: The Activist Becomes a Journalist
  26. Chapter 22: Learning How to Say My Name
  27. Epilogue
  28. Photographs
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. About the Author
  31. Copyright