Malin Alegria
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Written work and topics
Her first book Estrella's Quinceañera deals with a girl's struggle between a traditional quinceañera and an American-style Sweet 16 birthday party. It is based in San Jose, California. Estrella's Quinceañera was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006.
It has been recommended by educators and librarians as a way of teaching tolerance[1] and youth voices.[2]
Alegria also wrote Sofi's Guide To Getting Lost in Mexico[3] in which Sofi Mendoza goes to a party in TJ (Tijuana) to hook up with her biggest crush but finds out her green card is fake. Then she has to endure cooking, cleaning and a truck that smells like Chinese food.
Malin is currently at work on a teen book series for Scholastic, "Border Town", about a fictional town in South Texas.[4]
Malin conducts readings across the United States.
Bibliographical Resources
https://faculty.ucmerced.edu/mmartin-rodriguez/index_files/vhAlegriaMalin.htm
Personal life
Malin Alegria currently resides in San Francisco California[5] and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Citations
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References
- QUINCEAÑERA, The Monterey County Herald. By Marc Cabrera. Apr 16, 2006
- Kids' Corner, Entertainment Weekly. Mar 14, 2006 EW Review
- BookList, American Library Association. February 15, 2006
External links
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- American young adult novelists
- American women novelists
- Living people
- American writers of Mexican descent
- Hispanic and Latino American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women writers of young adult literature