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What no one tells you after winning a Newberry Medal is how difficult it is to write your next book.
In 2016, San Diego author Matt de la Peña won the prestigious children’s literature award for “Last Stop on Market Street,” a picture book that deals with inequity. The Newberry is rarely awarded to picture books, and de le Peña was also the first Hispanic author to ever receive it. Additionally, the book’s illustrator, Christian Robinson, was awarded the Caldecott Medal.
That’s a lot of success for an author who spent his early years in National City never realizing that writing books was even a career option. So when it was time to start his follow-up book, 2018’s “Love,” de la Peña wrote one line and thought, “is this a Newbery Award-winning line?”
Students mental health deteriorating during pandemic
A report released by the Centers for Disease Control in November showed that mental health visits comprised a greater percentage of pediatric emergency room visits during the pandemic in 2020, compared to the same months of the previous year.
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Deborah Sullivan Brennan / The San Diego Union-Tribune | 7:00 am, Feb. 7, 2021 ×
The problems facing families may have deeper, more enduring effects on children, who don t have the perspective to see the pandemic as a temporary circumstance. Tribune News Service
SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) – Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck last March, psychiatric emergency visits at Rady Children s Hospital near San Diego have crept up as youths and teens struggle with virtual learning, social isolation and unstable home lives.
Students mental health deteriorating during pandemic
A report released by the Centers for Disease Control in November showed that mental health visits comprised a greater percentage of pediatric emergency room visits during the pandemic in 2020, compared to the same months of the previous year.
Written By:
Deborah Sullivan Brennan / The San Diego Union-Tribune | 7:00 am, Feb. 7, 2021 ×
The problems facing families may have deeper, more enduring effects on children, who don t have the perspective to see the pandemic as a temporary circumstance. Tribune News Service
SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) – Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck last March, psychiatric emergency visits at Rady Children s Hospital near San Diego have crept up as youths and teens struggle with virtual learning, social isolation and unstable home lives.
A report released by the Centers for Disease Control in November showed that mental health visits comprised a greater percentage of pediatric emergency room visits during the pandemic in 2020, compared to the same months of the previous year.
Their stories are proof of how the coronavirus pandemic has pushed Olympic dreams in different directions. I feel like I m a better skateboarder now, cause I ve realized what passion is again said Wettstein, a junior at San Dieguito Academy.
The Encinitas teen and her family built a second skateboarding ramp in their backyard ahead of the games to help her train.
Wettstein had no idea just how great an investment it would become as private and public facilities shut down amid the pandemic. I was so beyond grateful cause it just gave me another opportunity to practice new things, to go out on a whim and try things, flipping my board in new alternating directions, Wettstein told NBC 7.