Once I Was You -- Adapted for Young Readers: Finding My Voice and Passing the MIC Hinojosa Maria
"When Maria speaks, I'm ready to listen and learn." --Lin-Manuel MirandaEmmy Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa has created a brand-new, unique version of her adult memoir,…
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"When Maria speaks, I'm ready to listen and learn." --Lin-Manuel MirandaEmmy 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