Maritza Lead with Your Heart, Angela Cervantes
Maritza Lead with Your Heart, Angela Cervantes
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Maritza: Lead with Your Heart

Author: Angela Cervantes

Narrator: Victoria Villarreal

Unabridged: 1 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Maritza is Bolivian on her mother’s side, Mexican on her father’s side, and 100 percent American soccer player. She dreams of playing for the U.S. women’s soccer team and even coaching it one day. Her teammate Violeta has those dreams too, but she worries she may never reach them because her family immigrated to the United States from El Salvador and may be sent back there. Maritza believes that families belong together, and with her new friends Makena and Evette by her side, she makes a plan to help. Can Maritza find the courage to lead with her heart?

This audiobook includes profiles of two young Latina changemakers and a downloadable PDF containing a glossary of Spanish words heard throughout the story.

About The Author

Angela Cervantes is the author of several children’s novels, including Gaby, Lost and Found and Lety Out Loud, which was a Pura Belpré Honor Book. Angela’s inspiration to write started during her childhood, when she loved to read but could never find books that reflected her Mexican American heritage and community. Today, Angela lives in Kansas with her family. When she’s not writing, she obsesses over her favorite soccer teams and runs every chance she gets.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chaya on October 04, 2021

This is an excellent children’s book about compassion and humanity. It focuses on a Latina girl, Maritza (who is half-Bolivian and half-Mexican) and her fight to reunite a classmate’s uncle with his family, after he was detained after ten years of living peacefully in America and working toward citi......more

Goodreads review by QNPoohBear on August 06, 2024

Maritza Ochoa is a proud Bolivian-American and Mexican-American from Washington, DC. She dreams of playing soccer for Team USA someday and won't let anyone stand in her way just because she's a girl. She enjoys mentoring and coaching little girls like her. When she meets the older cousin of one of t......more

Goodreads review by Beth on February 11, 2022

Great story.......more

Goodreads review by Marian on October 01, 2022

It will never cease to amaze me when I read reviews from conservatives freaking out about the content of more modern American Girl books. It's not like they weren't pushing the whole "treat people like people no matter what" agenda from day one (hi, Samantha!) so why oh why are they freaking out now......more

Goodreads review by Linda on October 30, 2021

For sure, the best of the first three books, “Lead With Your Heart” is Maritza’s story. Her friends, Makena & Evette, are included in this story but not as much as in the other two. That might have something to do with the fact that this story doesn’t have a direct racist theme. It is about immigrati......more

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