Alma and How She Got Her Name
by Juana Martinez-Neal
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- Grade
- PK-2
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- Latinx
Year Published 2018
Word Count 341
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 490L
- ATOS Reading Level: 2.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 195946
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- JUVENILE FICTION--People & Places--Caribbean & Latin America
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America
- JUVENILE FICTION--Social Themes--Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- Names, Personal--Fiction
- Names, Personal
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
- Families--Juvenile fiction
- Names, Personal--Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic Americans
- Families
- Families--Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION--Family--Multigenerational
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Juana Martinez-Neal about Alma and How She Got Her Name
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Juana Martinez-Neal
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Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 10
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Readings 1

Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Adriana Sananes
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Awards & Distinctions 11

Recent Book Award Winners & Honorees
Honor, 2020

Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, 1986-2020
Author Honor, 2019

Charlotte Huck Award, 2015-2021
Commended, 2019

Notable Children's Books, 1995-2020
Commended, 2019

Randolph Caldecott Medal, 1938-2020
Honor, 2019

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2020
Self-Identity Selection, 2019

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2020
Selection, 2019

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2020
Selection, 2019

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2020
Selection, 2018
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