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Becoming Beatriz
by Tami Charles
Ages: 14+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Charlesbridge Teen
ISBN: 978-1-58089-778-5
Keywords: Puerto Ricans, Gangs, Drugs, Haitian Americans, Gang violence, Poverty, 1980's, Dance, Domestic violence
ARC - In 1980's Newark, the murder of 15-year-old Beatriz's brother, the Diablos gang leader, reawakens her past traumas. Can she leave the gang and return to her true passion, dancing?