MVCDS will be hosting a virtual author visit with Elisabet Velasquez for 7th-12th grade students. Here is an excerpt from her book “When We Make It,” an unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redfines what it means to “make it,” for readers of Nicholasa Mohr and Elizabeth Acevedo. Click here to view her poem, “Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door.”