The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor - ADVISABLE

The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor, 343 pages.  NON-FICTION Delacorte Press, 2018.  $18.  

Content: Language: PG (3 swears); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG-13.  

BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS – ADVISABLE  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE  

Sonia grew up in the South Bronx of New York and her parents were both Puerto Rican.  She discovered that she had type 1 diabetes when she was young and had to learn how to regulate her health.  Sonia studied very hard and applied to Princeton and then went on to Yale Law School.  She worked hard in both criminal and civil law before she became a judge.  Now she is a Supreme Court Justice.  

I totally enjoyed this biography.  I loved Sonia’s writing style and enjoyed learning about her strength and dreams.  The first part of the book is easy to understand, and I think young adults will see themselves in Sonia, but the second part of the book takes a higher-level reader, or at least someone who has a little prior knowledge about the justice system.  the content includes a murder that is described for one of her court cases and there is a reference to "shooting up" and having to avoid the druggies in the stairwells.  I think this is a good biography to add to your library because it is a unique story.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson