HOT OFF THE PRESS! BOOK DEBUTS TODAY! From a Bronx housing project to the Federal bench, Sonia Sotomayor has come a long way. She is an inspiration to Latina girls of all ages. Here for the first time, is the story of Sotomayor's rocky childhood, and the long, hard road to becoming the first Hispanic and the third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. It's a personal look at the private woman behind the bench. Congratulations, Sonia! BOOK SUMMARY: MY BELOVED WORLD tells the story of Sotomayor's precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself. She would learn to giv...