Jessica Agudelo
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Review of Shut Up, This Is Serious
Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina IxtaHigh School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 368 pp.1/24 9780063287860 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063287884 $10.99It’s senior year, and while Belén’s classmates are focused on college applications, she’s flunking school and struggling to cope with a shattered home life. Since her pa walked out on their family, her...
Review of Letters in Charcoal
Letters in Charcoal by Irene Vasco; illus. by Juan Palomino; trans. from Spanish by Lawrence SchimelPrimary Lantana 32 pp.9/23 9781915244512 $18.99An unnamed narrator relates how she learned to read as a child in her coastal Afro-Colombian pueblo. In Palenque: “Letters were in kitchens, on tables, and right in front of...
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Review of A Flicker of Hope
A Flicker of Hope by Cynthia Harmony; illus. by Devon HolzwarthPrimary Viking 32 pp.2/24 9780593525760 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593525784 $10.99Spanish ed. 9780593525791 $18.99As cold weather gives way to spring, the monarch butterfly migration begins, and Lucía’s papá commences his own journey north. The forested region near the Mexican state of Michoacán...
Review of Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 8/23 9780593462287 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593462294 $14.99 e-book ed. 9780593462300 $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather the...
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Review of The Do-Over
The Do-Over by Rodrigo Vargas; illus. by Coni YovaninizIntermediate, Middle School Clarion/HarperCollins 224 pp.5/23 9780358394044 $24.99Paper ed. 9780358394051 $15.99e-book ed. 9780358394334 $10.99In this upbeat graphic novel, Maru is trying to adjust to her family’s recent move from California to Ohio. Her papá, a barbershop owner, and the rest of her...
Review of Pura's Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories
Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories by Annette Bay Pimentel; illus. by Magaly Morales Primary Abrams 40 pp. g 9/21 978-1-4197-4941-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64700-498-9 $15.54 “Pura Belpré always knew that many stories worth telling aren’t in books” is the lingering message of this picture-book biography....
Review of Miosotis Flores Never Forgets
Miosotis Flores Never Forgets by Hilda Eunice Burgos Intermediate, Middle School Tu/Lee & Low 304 pp. g 10/21 978-1-64379-065-7 $18.95 Achievement runs in twelve-year-old Miosotis’s Dominican family: her father is a physics professor, her brother Jacinto is a track star and straight-A student, and her sister Amarilis attends a prestigious...
Review of Bright Star
Bright Star by Yuyi Morales; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/21 978-0-8234-4328-4 $18.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-8234-4784-8 $18.99 Morales’s (Dreamers, rev. 9/18) latest sensitive and evocative picture book opens with a wide-eyed whitetail fawn curled up in a creosote bush, guilelessly peeking up at the reader....
Review of My Two Border Towns
My Two Border Towns by David Bowles; illus. by Erika Meza Primary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. g 8/21 978-0-593-11104-8 $17.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-593-32507-0 $17.99 A sleepy boy is nudged awake by his father for a routine Saturday trip, heading across the U.S.–Mexico border to “el Otro Lado.” As they reach the...
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