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Just Maria is the story of Maria Romero, a blind sixth-grader who is trying her hardest to be normal. Not amazing. Not inspiring. Not helpless. Not weird. Just normal. Normal is hard enough with her white cane, glass eyes, and bumpy books, but Maria's task is complicated by her neighbor and classmate JJ Munson, an asthmatic overweight oddball known in the halls of Marble City Middle as a double-dork paste-eater. When JJ draws Maria into his latest hare-brained scheme—a series of public challenges to prove their worth as gumshoes for his Twinnoggin Detective Agency—she fears she's lost her last chance to go unnoticed. When a young girl goes missing on the streets of Marble City, Maria's new-found confidence is tested in ways she never anticipated. Use your cane and your brain, and figure it out . . . Aimed at middle-grade readers, Just Maria explores difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine and engages universal themes about the price of popularity and the meaning of independence.
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"At the heart of Jay Hardwig’s Just Maria is the wickedly funny Maria Romero, a blind, 12-year-old heroine who is both exceptional . . . and normal. While physically challenged to navigate crowded school halls and busy streets, she must also find her way through the usual emotional labyrinth of popularity, friendships, and independence. Visually impaired readers will, for once, see themselves at the center of a story. Sighted readers will be treated to a vivid portrayal of how a blind kid sees the world. Most importantly, though, Hardwig’s nuanced, witty novel celebrates how all of us, sighted or not, must look inward to see true friendship, character, and courage. After putting this book down I felt as if I could accomplish anything." —Allan Wolf, Author of The Watch that Ends the Night and The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep " As a blind child, I really enjoyed this book because it spreads information about blind people and what they do. I also loved the characters and the plot. I thought it was very suspenseful. A great read for the sighted or blind. I would highly recommend it." —Layla Hildenbrand, age 10, two-time National Braille Challenge Finalist "As the parent of a blind child, I absolutely adored reading Just Maria . Blindness is not a tragedy and does not limit one's ability. Jay Hardwig brilliantly gave us a character that proves such. Maria is like any other child who makes some bad decisions, struggles with friendships, and ultimately proves her independence despite being blind. I highly recommend this book to all readers…tweens, teens, adults, blind or sighted." —Stacey Hildenbrand, Layla's mom and a certified Teacher for the Visually Impaired "Starred Review Just Maria is a loving novel about living with disabilities." —Ashley Holstrom, Foreword Reviews --This text refers to the paperback edition.
Jay Hardwig is a certified teacher for the visually impaired who has worked with children with blindness and low vision for more than twenty years. He currently works for the nonprofit IFB Solutions, where he directs summer camps and school-year opportunities for children with vision loss. When not taking blind kids ziplining, he reads, writes, and plays barrelhouse piano with his friends and family in Asheville, North Carolina. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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This is an awesome book for middle school readers, or really for anyone. I wish I had such a book when I was in the sixth grade! The lead character is a girl who is 12 years old and blind and is working hard to fit into the popular crowd or at least not be too far outside of that group. Her neighbor/friend is a quirky boy who makes no effort to fit in, but who totally gets her. It may not be a new theme, but it is a very different perspective. If I was more artistic, I’d make a poster of Maria’s “My Crabby-Abby Days Top Ten List of the Most Annoying Things About Being Blind, In No Particular Order” and hang it in my office! Check it out. I think you will be amused and you may just learn something!
This book is written by a white, sighted man, and it shows. I'm a blind adult who loves middle grade, and I picked up this book hoping to find nuanced blindness representation. Instead, I found a character who is so busy proclaiming that she is normal on every page that we really don't learn much else about her. Chapters on topics such as Braille and how she lost her vision reveal that this book was primarily written for sighted readers, not blind ones. Maria's mom's assertion that she needs to be nice to everyone and sthat she is a blind ambassador is never fully challenged or examined, which sends harmful messages to blind wreaders. And the only other disabled character is a nonspeaking autistic who is treated as an object and also has no depth or acharacter arc. Overall, this book is a thinly disguised teaching tool to educate sighted readers about orientation and mobility and other aspects of blindness. .
The irrepressible Maria and her friend JJ sparkle on the pages of Hardwig's funny, profound, emotionally rich novel. Maria may be blind, but she's so much more than her blindness. She's a three-dimensional person with aspirations, frustrations, friendship challenges, and a yearning for greater independence. In other words, she's a regular sixth-grader. I laughed and cried as JJ's "tests" spotlighted Maria's bravery, intelligence, resolve and heart. Especially her heart, which guides her to embrace her friendship with an outcast, despite what her peers might think. I highly recommend Just Maria!
From the first sentence, we’re invited into the world of a very particular person with a sharp, consistent, engaging, and winning viewpoint. Just Maria is made of sharp sentences and funny moments that bring us into middle school all over again. It’s a pleasure to be in the company of Maria as she faces a world with the challenge of being no one else but herself. Highly recommend!
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In 1996, at the age of twenty-six, I agreed to work a single substitute shift at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Burned out on academia and tired of making sandwiches, I needed a new gig, and the blind school seemed as good as any. My girlfriend worked there, and loved it, and all her friends did too. At the end of my first shift, I signed up for a second. At the end of my second, I applied for a full-time job. I have worked in the field ever since.
And the girlfriend? She became my wife. (Hi Nita!)
After a few years as a classroom assistant and job coach, I earned my teaching license in 1999. Twelve years later, I added a master’s degree in Special Education, with an emphasis in Orientation and Mobility, which allows me to teach blind students how to travel safely and effectively through their world – whether to find a classroom, find a bathroom, or cross a six-lane highway to get to that place on the corner with the good apple cider donuts.
In 2014, after almost twenty years in the business, I started writing Just Maria. I wrote it because I wanted it to exist. I had a student named Sam at the time, a fifth-grade bookworm and braille reader who had worked his way through half of the digital library that provided books for the blind. I went looking for a novel with a blind protagonist—one who wasn’t an inspiration, a sad-sack, or a saint—and hoped for a book that explored difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine. When I couldn’t find one, I decided to write it myself.
It was an absurd notion, sure, but not without precedent. I had written off and on for years, reaching back to my college days, publishing scores of essays, reviews, and short fiction in periodicals ranging from The Austin Chronicle to Blue Ridge Outdoors to Bridal Guide. It was a thrill to see my words in print, but always remained more of a thrill than a living – enough to keep me in breakfast tacos and barbecue, but not much more. I kept teaching, and in 2001 I traded flat brown for steep green, moving from central Texas to the mountains of North Carolina.
I’ve taught in the area ever since, and in 2014 took a job with the nonprofit IFB Solutions, where I manage programs for children with vision loss. When not taking blind kids ziplining, I read, write, and play barrelhouse piano with friends and family around Asheville.
Over the years, I kept fiddling with Just Maria: writing, revising, and sometimes taking long breaks I wasn’t sure I would return from. I kept at it more out of habit than hope – not because I thought it would be published, but because I believed it ought to be. By the time I finally finished it, and found a publisher in Regal House, my student Sam had graduated high school. He’s in college now, studying classics and history, and probably not reading much middle grades fiction. Just Maria will not be of much use to him, but I know there are other Sams out there, scores of them, and Samanthas and Aliyahs and Marias too, from Schenectady to Sacramento to Moline, and everywhere else besides. It is my hope this book finds its way into their hands.
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Just Maria is the story of Maria Romero, a blind sixth-grader who is trying her hardest to be normal. Not amazing. Not inspiring. Not helpless. Not weird. Just normal. Normal is hard enough with her white cane, glass eyes, and bumpy books, but Maria’s task is complicated by her neighbor and classmate JJ Munson, an asthmatic overweight oddball known in the halls of Marble C
Just Maria is the story of Maria Romero, a blind sixth-grader who is trying her hardest to be normal. Not amazing. Not inspiring. Not helpless. Not weird. Just normal. Normal is hard enough with her white cane, glass eyes, and bumpy books, but Maria’s task is complicated by her neighbor and classmate JJ Munson, an asthmatic overweight oddball known in the halls of Marble City Middle as a double-dork paste-eater. When JJ draws Maria into his latest hare-brained scheme—a series of public challenges to prove their worth as gumshoes for his Twinnoggin Detective Agency—she fears she’s lost her last chance to go unnoticed. When a young girl goes missing on the streets of Marble City, Maria’s new-found confidence is tested in ways she never anticipated. Use your cane and your brain, and figure it out . . . Aimed at middle-grade readers, Just Maria explores difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine and engages universal themes about the price of popularity and the meaning of independence.
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January 7th 2022
by Fitzroy Books
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(ISBN13: 9781646030828 )
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