When We Make It: A Nuyorican Novel by Velasquez, Elisabet
	List Price:   $13.99 Unit Price:   $11.19 You Save:   $2.80 (20%) ISBN-10:   0593324501 ISBN-13:   9780593324509 Publisher:   Penguin Young Readers Group Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   August 2022 Pages:   384 Format:   Paperback Ages:   14 and Up
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Subjects
AR Quiz # (Quiz Name): 517117(When We Make It) Reading Level: 4.4 Interest Level: Upper Grade Point Value: 5.0
Description/Notes
"The energy. The clarity. The beauty. Elisabet Velasquez brings it all. . . . Her voice is FIRE!"--NYT bestselling and award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson 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. Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican question asker who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister, Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has long been denied. When We Make It is a love letter to anyone who was taught to believe that they would not make it. To those who feel their emotions before they can name them. To those who still may not have all the language but they have their story. Velasquez' debut novel is sure to leave an indelible mark on all who read it.