Anna Lapera
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Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice
Coming Spring 2024 |
MANI SEMILLA FINDS HER QUETZAL VOICE...
Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice is an upper middle grade novel that follows Manuela “Mani” Semilla, a 12-year old Filipina-Guatemalan girl who just wants two things: to get her period, and to thwart her mom's plan of taking her to Guatemala on her birthday. But when she discovers letters between her mother and her disappeared-journalist aunt, Mani is slowly transformed from quiet bystander into budding activist.
Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice is an upper middle grade novel that follows Manuela “Mani” Semilla, a 12-year old Filipina-Guatemalan girl who just wants two things: to get her period, and to thwart her mom's plan of taking her to Guatemala on her birthday. But when she discovers letters between her mother and her disappeared-journalist aunt, Mani is slowly transformed from quiet bystander into budding activist.
ABOUT ANNA...
Anna Lapera is a middle school teacher by day and fiction writer in the early hours of the morning. She is primarily a Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction writer but loves writing short stories for the grownups. She is a 2022 Macondista and a mentee with both the Kweli Journal and the Las Musas Mentorship Program.
www.annalaperawriter.com
Anna Lapera is a middle school teacher by day and fiction writer in the early hours of the morning. She is primarily a Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction writer but loves writing short stories for the grownups. She is a 2022 Macondista and a mentee with both the Kweli Journal and the Las Musas Mentorship Program.
www.annalaperawriter.com