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If any student chooses sonia sotomayor as their research project, there is an authors note in the back of the book with more information about her. Before supreme court justice sonia sotomayor took her seat in our nations highest court, she was just a little girl in the south bronx. The ajc decatur book festival agnes scott colleges gaines chapel at presser hall, 141 e. Supreme court justice sonia sotomayor will launch her first childrens book, along with a young readers adaptation of her memoir, as part of the main stage lineup of authors at the 2018 national book festival, the library of congress. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting justice, she recounts her life from a bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and. Tuesday, january 28, at temple judea, 5500 granada blvd. Supreme court justice sonia sotomayor will be in conversation about. An evening with sonia sotomayor porter square books. Justice sonia sotomayors new book, a memoir of her childhood and career as a lawyer that ends in 1992 as she ascends to the federal bench is told in a refreshing conversational style.
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