The Moon Within
by Aida Salazar (Author)
Booktalk: Celi Rivera’s life swirls with questions. About her changing body. Her first attraction to a boy. And her best friend’s exploration of what it means to be genderfluid.
But most of all, her mother’s insistence she have a moon ceremony when her first period arrives. It’s an ancestral Mexica ritual that Mima and her community have reclaimed, but Celi promises she will NOT be participating. Can she find the power within herself to take a stand for who she wants to be?
Snippet:
LUNA
A beam of moonlight
squeezes through
my window’s curtain.
Luna is out tonight.
My eyes wide open like doors.
I’ll be twelve in a few months, I should
be allowed to go to sleep later
than seven-year-old Juju, who shares a room with me
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