"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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Once I Was You -- Adapted for Young Readers
Finding My Voice and Passing the Mic
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9781665902816
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time in Mexico
- Chapter 2: Coming to America
- Chapter 3: Caught Between Two Worlds
- Chapter 4: Being Different in Hyde Park
- Chapter 5: Invisible Borders
- Chapter 6: This Is What Democracy Looks Like
- Chapter 7: Putting Down Roots
- Chapter 8: A Different Kind of Church
- Chapter 9: The Drive South
- Chapter 10: A Girl Named Maria
- Chapter 11: Growing Pains
- Chapter 12: Looking Privilege in the Eye
- Chapter 13: Boy Crazy
- Chapter 14: The War That Nobody Wanted
- Chapter 15: Life After High School
- Chapter 16: In a New York Minute
- Chapter 17: Freshman Year
- Chapter 18: Embracing My Latina-ness
- Chapter 19: Finding My Voice on the Airwaves
- Chapter 20: Travels with Jorge
- Chapter 21: The Activist Becomes a Journalist
- Chapter 22: Learning How to Say My Name
- Epilogue
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright