A young adult/teen fiction with a focus on social issues, in verse, is a new reading experience and a lesson in diversity. When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez.
How often do you wander outside of your comfort zone to read a story that is entirely different? Elisabet Velasquez gives you that opportunity in her Nuyorican novel. The youthful rhyme will lift you out of predictable text and formulaic story structure to a unique expression of social inequity, personal challenge, and irrepressible dreams.
“An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to “make it,” for readers of Nicholasa Mohr and Elizabeth Acevedo.” Penguin Random House
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