{"product_id":"just-maria-9781646030828","title":"Just Maria","description":"\u003ci\u003eJust Maria\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eJust Maria\u003c\/i\u003e explores difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine and engages universal themes about the price of popularity and the meaning of independence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fitzroy Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646030828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jay Hardwig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41521336582325,"sku":"9781646030828","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_752e84dc-4704-4517-96bc-f65206cf20c7.jpg?v=1641917614","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/just-maria-9781646030828","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}