A Seed in the Sun by Salazar, Aida

**Four starred reviews!**

A farm-working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights in this tender-hearted novel in verse, perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia and Pam Muñoz Ryan.

Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold on to those dreams.

Then she meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and realizes she may need to raise her voice sooner rather than later: Farmworkers are striking for better treatment and wages, and whether Lula's family joins them or not will determine their future.

Author: Aida Salazar
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 10/25/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780593406601
Audience: Ages 9-12

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
Booklist 09/15/2022 pg. 54
Publishers Weekly 10/24/2022
School Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 60
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2022 pg. 95
BookPage 10/01/2022
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2022 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
Aida Salazar is an award-winning author, arts activist, and translator whose writings explore issues of identity and social justice. Her critically acclaimed verse novels and picture books have received numerous awards including: a Caldecott Honor, the Américas Award, Tomás Rivera Children's Book Award, International Latino Book Awards, California Library Association Beatty Award, Northern CA Book Award, Jane Addams Peace Honor, an NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor among other distinctions. She lives with her family of artists in Oakland, CA.