A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who
tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village.
In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets
mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a
field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make
people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving
school when they reach puberty.
No one in the village wants to talk about this shameful problem. But
Latika has had enough. When a government representative visits their
village, she sees her chance to make one of her dreams come true: the
construction of public toilets, which would be safer for everybody in
her village.
Burying the Moon shines a light on how a lack of access to sanitation
facilities affects girls and women in many parts of the world.
Key Text Features
author's note
illustrations
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama,
drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts,
words, or actions).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a
story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how
characters interact).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to
provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning,
tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation
of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of
episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot
moves toward a resolution.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a
specific word choice on meaning and tone
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6
Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or
speaker in a text.
