Read Ruth’s Pura Belpré Award acceptance speech

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Ruth Behar received the 2018
(Pura) Belpré Author Award for Lucky Broken Girl (Nancy Paulsen/Penguin Random). Her acceptance remarks were delivered at the Belpré Celebración on Sunday, June 24, 2018, during the American Library Association Annual Conference.
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