📖Recommend for Grades 9 and up📖
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Emoni Santiago is a high school
senior who loves to cook. She was raised by her paternal grandmother, as her
mother died when she was a baby and her father decided to move back to Puerto
Rico when he realized he couldn’t actively be a single father. Emoni is herself
a single mother, balancing raising her daughter with going to school and
working. When a new culinary arts elective opens up at her school, Emoni is
thrilled at the opportunity and hopes to be able to attend the class trip to
Spain over Spring Break. However, when you’re a single mother with little
income, things aren’t that easy.
A beautiful story featuring a
delightful Afro-Latinx character. Emoni’s struggles as a single teen mom are
wonderfully presented and not sugar-coated by any means. Readers may be annoyed
at Emoni constantly referring to her daughter as “babygirl”, (I know I was) but
that is such a minor point and doesn’t take away from this delightful
story.
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