Mighty Mara

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Pub Date 30 May 2023 | Archive Date 08 May 2023

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Welcome to Sametown where everyone and everything is...well...the same. Except Mara! She's a little different. She’ bright. She’s sunny. And, unlike her peers who are all planning on performing a similar magic show act at the school talent show, she is going to dance, dance, dance! One problem: everyone in Sametown thinks she shouldn’t do it. And it’s not just  because dancing isn’t the status quo in Sametown...It’s because they just don’t believe in Mara. Mara won't let their dissuading and even their heckling rock her spirit, though. She’s Mighty Mara, and she’s about to shake some new life into her muted town. In the most surprising and beautiful of ways.

Welcome to Sametown where everyone and everything is...well...the same. Except Mara! She's a little different. She’ bright. She’s sunny. And, unlike her peers who are all planning on performing a...

A Note From the Publisher

BISAC Subjects:
JUVENILE FICTION / Disabilities & Special Needs
JUVENILE FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural
JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance

BISAC Subjects:
JUVENILE FICTION / Disabilities & Special Needs
JUVENILE FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural
JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance


Advance Praise

"Young Mara lives in Sametown, a place where everyone fits in because they like the same stuff and do the same things—everyone but Mara, that is. She loves to dance, but Mara is…different. Can Mara put her fears aside to bring a new type of dance to her school’s talent show? Mighty Mara is an authentic story loosely based on co-author Carina Ho’s experience with a physical disability, showing readers that being different doesn’t mean that we’re not the same. Mara feels as if she doesn’t fit in and wants more than anything to be able to be herself and have friends that understand her. When she signs up to dance at her school’s talent show, her teacher expresses concern about her dancing in front of the whole school. But Mara is determined to show everyone that dance makes her special and that she’s good at it. Mara begins diligently training for the event, incurring snickers and stares from her peers. In cleverly illustrated pictures that depict Mara in ways where her lower body is obscured, the reader will not know of Mara’s true strength and courage until it is revealed at the talent show that she uses a wheelchair. The illustrator’s color scheme further adds meaning to the story by visually separating scenes featuring a vibrant and spirited Mara from the pastel and more muted tones of Sametown and its people. Mighty Mara wraps up in a gratifyingly unsentimental and original way, with Mara’s talented dancing being well-lauded by her peers, but not placing in the show. Discussion prompts at the end of the book invite readers, families, and educators of young children to further dialogue with readers both with and without disabilities." - Publishers Weekly, Booklife

"Young Mara lives in Sametown, a place where everyone fits in because they like the same stuff and do the same things—everyone but Mara, that is. She loves to dance, but Mara is…different. Can Mara...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781223186306
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
PAGES 48

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