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Becoming Beatriz

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Description

260 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"In 1984 in the barrios of Newark, Beatriz Mendez is looking forward to dancing at her fifteenth birthday, because dancing is her true passion in life, but when her brother Juni, gang-leader of the Puerto Rican gang the Diablos, is killed by the rival Haitian Macoute gang she finds herself thrust into the role of gang-leader and drug dealer--until she meets Nassar, a dorky Haitian boy who shares and reignites her passion for dancing."--
1984, in the barrios of Newark. Beatriz Mendez is looking forward to dancing at her fifteenth birthday, because dancing is her true passion in life. When her brother Juni, gang-leader of the Puerto Rican gang the Diablos, is killed by the rival Haitian Macoute gang she finds herself thrust into the role of gang-leader and drug dealer. She meets Nassar, a dorky Haitian boy who shares and reignites her passion for dancing. Will Beatriz choose the life decided for her-- or the one she creates for herself? -- adapted from run-on sentence provided, and jacket

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Genre/Form

Note

Call Number

Sc D 19-921

ISBN

LCCN

2018031378

OCLC

1055567670

Author

Charles, Tami, author.

Title

Becoming Beatriz / Tami Charles.

Publisher

Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 19-921