Burying the Moon

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781773066035

<p><strong>A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. </strong></p>

<p>In Latika’s village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty.</p>

<p>No one in the village wants to talk about this shameful problem. But Latika has had enough. When a government representative visits their village, she sees her chance to make one of her dreams come true: the construction of public toilets, which would be safer for everybody in her village. </p>

<p><em>Burying the Moon</em> shines a light on how a lack of access to sanitation facilities affects girls and women in many parts of the world.</p>

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<p><strong>Key Text Features</strong></p>

<p>author's note</p>

<p>illustrations</p>

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<p><strong>Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:</strong></p>

<p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3<br>

Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).</p>

<p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3<br>

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).</p>

<p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4<br>

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.</p>

<p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5<br>

Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.</p>

<p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7<br>

Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).</p>

<p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3<br>

Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.</p>

<p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4<br>

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone</p>

<p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6<br>

Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.</p>