Follett Content Book Detail: The Moon Within by Salazar, Aida

The Moon Within

Author: Salazar, Aida

Follett Number: 1400QZ8
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Scholastic Inc., c2019, p2020
Format: 229 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Subjects:
Best Friends Fiction
Family Life Fiction
Friendship Fiction
Life Change Events Fiction
Mothers and Daughters Fiction
Novels in Verse
Puberty Fiction
Racially Mixed People Fiction
Transgender People Fiction
"Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body. She is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion. She must choose loyalty to her life-long best friend who is contemplating an even more profound change of life or the boy she likes"--Provided by publisher.

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