When Maria Isable Salazar Lopez enters a new school, her teacher insists on calling her Mary.
In Spanish..
Third grader Maria Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.
S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher\'s writing assignment My Greatest Wish gives her that opportunity.
How can she find the courage to make her teacher understand? A Christopher Award-winning author tells the compelling story of a little girl\'s decision to stand up for her own identity.
She just can\'t see herself as Mary.
But Maria Isabel has been named after her Papa\'s mother and her beloved Puerto Rican grandmother.
When Maria Isable Salazar Lopez enters a new school, her teacher insists on calling her Mary