Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel by Anthony Robles, illustrated by Carl Angel [in Christian Science Monitor]
23 May, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian American
Makibaka means 'struggle' – the struggle of Filipino Americans who survived great hardships to become Americans. Young Lakas inspires the inhabitants of the Makibaka Hotel to fight the building owner's attempts to force the tenants from...
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