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Gr 9-Up "Ana's Story" focuses on the life of a girl growing up with HIV in Latin America. Bush has based the first portion of the book on her work as a UNICEF volunteer, compiling information and testimonies from a variety of sources to create the mosaic of Ana's life. The result is the story of a girl marginalized by those around her. Her mother died from the disease and her father is also infected, so her grandmother tells her she must keep her HIV a secret at all costs. Ana must keep other secrets as well;...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this aesthetically rudimentary but effective biography of the pseudonymous Ana, an HIV-positive Latin American teen mother, President's daughter Bush has the good sense to let the story speak for itself. Infected with HIV from birth, Ana has had to endure a lot: the death of her parents from AIDS; life with a grandmother who refused to see that her boyf...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this aesthetically rudimentary but effective biography of the pseudonymous Ana, an HIV-positive Latin American teen mother, President Bush's...Log In or Sign Up to Read More