Author comes to Monte Vista

Photos by WENDY PIERRO/Acorn Newspapers

CULTURAL PRIDE- Ventura County author Michele Serros, left, speaks to Monte Vista Middle School seventh and eighthgrade students last week during a presentation and book signing at the Camarillo school. An awardwinning poet and commentator for National Public Radio, Serros wrote "How to Be a Chicana Role Model" and "Chicana Falsa, and Other Stories of Death, Identity and Oxnard." Below, Monte Vista Middle School eighth-grader Christina Espinoza, 13, asks a question during a discussion forum with the author.