Chandler Museum Book Club: A Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar

300 South Chandler Village Drive,Chandler AZ 85226

16 May, 2023

Description

Join the Chandler Museum Book Club! Staff at Chandler Museum and Chandler Public Library have come together to choose a mix of fiction and non-fiction that expand on topics from the exhibition, Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler. Whether you've been following along since the start, or saw a single book that caught your eye--join us to imagine living in the Dust Bowl era, learn more about the land, and more! Connect with other readers during in-person discussions led my Museum Staff Kristine Clark and Librarian Anbolyn Potter. Future books include: Nomadland by Jessica Bruder --- About A Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar: "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." --- Want to know more? Email our Community Engagement Specialist at [email protected]