Just Maria (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781646030828)

Just Maria is the story of Maria Romero, a blind sixth-grader who is trying her hardest to be normal. Not amazing. Not inspiring. Not helpless. Not weird. Just normal. Normal is hard enough with her white cane, glass eyes, and bumpy books, but Maria's task is complicated by her neighbor and classmate JJ Munson, an asthmatic overweight oddball known in the halls of Marble City Middle as a double-dork paste-eater. When JJ draws Maria into his latest hare-brained scheme--a series of public challenges to prove their worth as gumshoes for his Twinnoggin Detective Agency--she fears she's lost her last chance to go unnoticed. When a young girl goes missing on the streets of Marble City, Maria's new-found confidence is tested in ways she never anticipated. Use your cane and your brain, and figure it out . . . Aimed at middle-grade readers, Just Maria explores difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine and engages universal themes about the price of popularity and the meaning of independence.

Author: Jay Hardwig
ISBN-10: 1646030826
ISBN-13: 9781646030828
Publisher: Fitzroy Books
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2022
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.39d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 12/27/2021
School Library Journal 02/18/2022 pg. 1