Future According to Luz: Luz Sees the Light (Hardcover)

from tierneyc

Luz Sees the Light. Written and illustrated by Claudia Dávila. Kids Can Press. 2011. 96 pages. $16.95 hbk. 978-1554535811. Grades 3-7. In the face of city blackouts and rising gas prices, Luz brings light to her neighborhood by transforming a vacant lot into an urban oasis. Along the way, she mak...

from sylliu

THis is a cute and well drawn graphic novel about a young Latina who lives in a neighborhood that suffers frequent blackouts. She finds solace in an empty, abandoned lot and has some good friends and meets quirky neighbors. She rallies the neighborhood to clean up the old lot and create a communi...

from Rosa.Mill

There are rolling black outs in Luz's neighborhood. Gas prices are getting very high and the cost of imports is going up. It takes Luz a while to figure out why these things are important but she finally realizes that she needs to become more self sufficient and use things that are produced local...

from Rosa.Mill

There are rolling black outs in Luz's neighborhood. Gas prices are getting very high and the cost of imports is going up. It takes Luz a while to figure out why these things are important but she finally realizes that she needs to become more self sufficient and use things that are produced local...

from amrahmn

Kids will enjoy the comic book aspect of the book and can relate to the main character, Luz, as she is fairly typical at first (wanting a ride to the mall and her desire for particular shoes.) I would use this to teach about being "green", recycling, composting, cleaning up neighborhoods. I did n...