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Malin Alegria is an American author of Youth literature, who primarily focuses on the genre of young adult novels.
Malin Alegria | |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Young Adult Novels |
| Website | |
| www | |
Malin Alegria is an American author of Youth literature, who primarily focuses on the genre of young adult novels.
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.
https://faculty.ucmerced.edu/mmartin-rodriguez/index_files/vhAlegriaMalin.htm
Malin Alegria currently resides in San Francisco California [5] and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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A quinceañera is a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday that is common in Mexican and other Latin American cultures. The girl celebrating her 15th birthday is a quinceañera. In Latin America, the term quinceañera is reserved solely for the honoree; in English, primarily in the United States, the term is used to refer to the celebrations and honors surrounding the special occasion.
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