My very own room
With the help of her family, a resourceful Mexican American girl realizes her dream of having a space of her own to read and to think.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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San Francisco :
Children's Book Press : Distributed to the Book trade by Publishers Group West,
2000.
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| Summary: | With the help of her family, a resourceful Mexican American girl realizes her dream of having a space of her own to read and to think. |
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| Item Description: | Bilingual Spanish/English guided reading Level O - GRLVL-BI-O |
| Physical Description: | 30 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Awards: | Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, 2001 |
| ISBN: | 9780892392230 (pbk.) 0892392231 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | Amada Irma Pérez is a third-grade teacher in Oxnard, California, and a leading advocate of programs encouraging multicultural understanding. Like many of her students, Amada Irma was born in Mexico and came to the United States as a young child. My Very Own Room is based on her own family story. She lives with her family in Ventura, California. Maya Gonzalez was an award-winning children's book artist, author, activist and progressive educator. Their work addresses systemic inequity in relation to race/ethnicity, sexism, and cissexism using children's books as radical agents of change and healing, both personally and culturally. Gonzalez co-founded Reflection Press, a POC, queer and trans owned independent publishing house that uses holistic, nature-based, and anti-oppression frameworks in their books and materials for kids and grown-ups. They were also the creator of the Gender Wheel, a tool to express the dynamic, infinite and inclusive reality of gender, and provides lectures and workshops to educators, parents and caregivers. They passed away in 2026. |
