Book Bag
Water Day
Author
Illustrator
Olivia Sua
Publication Date
August 22, 2023
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction / 2nd − 3rd
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Description
A joyful picture book from acclaimed author Margarita Engle about a young girl and her community celebrating the arrival of the water man who visits weekly to distribute water to the village.
Water days are busy days, grateful, laughing, thirsty days. A small village no longer has a water supply of its own, but one young girl and her neighbors get by with the help of the water man. When he comes to town, water flows like hope for the whole familia, and everyone rejoices.
Publication date
August 22, 2023
Classification
Fiction
Page Count
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ISBN-13
9781665918718
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
JUV029010 - Juvenile Fiction | Nature & the Natural World | Environment
JUV030040 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America
JUV029010 - Juvenile Fiction | Nature & the Natural World | Environment
JUV030040 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Community life
Cuba
Climatic changes
Water supply
Community life
Cuba
Climatic changes
Water supply
Kirkus
An insightful consideration of the global water crisis.
None
The book culminates with an image of the family using their replenished water and a line that sums up how this tightly knit group views water day: "a river of joy that flows for my whole thirsty familia.
Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle (she/her) is the Cuban American author of many books, including the verse novels Your Heart, My Sky; Rima's Rebellion; Newbery Honor winner The Surrender Tree; and Forest World. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, the latter of which received the Pura Belpré Award and a Walter Dean Myers Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among other honors. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.
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