Becoming Vanessa History Winner of Lee & Low’s

Winner of Lee & Low’s New Voices Award

lives in the moment

but always—until now—tantalizingly consigned to the shadows

following two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a new place to call home

Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper

Becoming Vanessa History Winner of Lee & Low’sFor readers of Alma and How She Got Her Name and The King of Kindergarten, this story will help kids just starting school transform from timid caterpillars into beautiful butterflies so they can love who they are. On Vanessas first day of school, her parents tell her it will be easy to make friends. Vanessa isnt so sure. She wears her fanciest outfit so her new classmates will notice her right away. They notice, but the attention isnt what shed hoped