INFANTIL

Jacqueline Woodson’s first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories. It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat–by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for “A Room to Talk”), they discover it’s safe to talk about what’s bothering them–everything from Esteban’s father’s deportation and Haley’s father’s incarceration to Amari’s fears of racial profiling and Ashton’s adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they can express the feelings and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world. And together, they can grow braver and more ready for the rest of their lives.

Un libro blandito para descubrir los sentimientos y estimular la creatividad.

¿Es más importante que una niña sea bonita o inteligente? Durante la mayor parte de sus 17 años de vida, Pamela Montes ha sido una recha. Una ávida inte­resada en la ciencia y la cultura, Pamela empieza a sentirse como un fantasma social, visible sólo para su pequeña familia e invisible para los demás. Cuando sus padres le anuncian que se mudarán de ciudad, ella decide que es una opor­tunidad ideal para hacerse una transformador extrema. Su meta es saber qué se siente se guapa, amada y "popular" en su nueva escuela.