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My Name Is Maria Isabel

E-book


A third grader realizes the importance of her name in this classic story of heritage and self-identity.

For MarĂ­a Isabel Salazar LĂłpez, the hardest thing about being the new girl in school is that the teacher doesn't call her by her real name. "We already have two MarĂ­as in this class," says her teacher. "Why don't we call you Mary instead?"

But MarĂ­a Isabel has been named for her PapĂĄ's mother and for Chabela, her beloved Puerto Rican grandmother. Can she find a way to make her teacher see that if she loses her name, she's lost the most important part of herself?