Bibliograph

When we make it, Elisabet Velasquez

Type

Label

When we make it, Elisabet Velasquez

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

HL830L, Lexile

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 14+, Dial Books for Young Readers

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grades 10-12, Dial Books for Young Readers

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

When we make it

Responsibility statement

Elisabet Velasquez

Summary

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 eighth grader 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 been denied

Target audience

adolescent

Classification

Creator