Miss Quinces by Kat Fajardo; illus. by the author; color by Mariana AzziIntermediate, Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 256 pp. g5/22 978-1-338-53558-7 $24.99Paper ed. 978-1-338-53559-4 $12.99Spanish ed. 978-1-338-53565-5 $12.99All Sue (Suyapa Yisel to her family) Gutiérrez wants to do this summer is hang out with her Comics Club buddies at Camp Willow....
Miss Quinces by Kat Fajardo; illus. by the author; color by Mariana Azzi Intermediate, Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 256 pp. g 5/22 978-1-338-53558-7 $24.99 Paper ed. 978-1-338-53559-4 $12.99 Spanish ed. 978-1-338-53565-5 $12.99 All Sue (Suyapa Yisel to her family) Gutiérrez wants to do this summer is hang out with her Comics...
The middle-grade graphic novel Miss Quinces, written and illustrated by Kat Fajardo, with color by Mariana Azzi (Graphix/Scholastic, 10–13 years; simultaneously published in Spanish as Srta. Quinces) takes place during the summer of Suyapa’s fifteenth year, when her family goes to Honduras to visit extended family. Cajoled into a quinceañera,...
Without Separation: Prejudice, Segregation, and the Case of Roberto Alvarez by Larry Dane Brimner; illus. by Maya Gonzalez Primary, Intermediate Calkins/Boyds Mills & Kane g 40 pp. 9/21 978-1-68437-195-2 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-63592-460-2 $11.99 Brimner (Finding a Way Home, rev. 1/21) narrates the events leading to the first successful school...
Cuba in My Pocket by Adrianna Cuevas Intermediate, Middle School Farrar 288 pp. g 9/21 978-0-374-31467-5 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-374-31468-2 $9.99 Twelve-year-old Cumba Fernandez carries an unlucky double-nine domino, la caja de muertos, or the “dead man’s box,” in his pocket as a reminder that “there are worse sources of...
A reflection on the future of the Pura Belpré Award must begin with a meditation on the past. As Black, Caribbean, Afro-Atlantic, and Afro-Latinx scholars teach us, the future is in the past, and the present is in the future. My contemplation, then, begins with two iconic photographs of Pura...
Tag Team [El Toro & Friends] by Raúl the Third; illus. by the author; color by Elaine Bay Primary Versify/Houghton 56 pp. g 5/21 978-0-358-38039-9 $9.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-39372-6 $6.99 Training Day [El Toro & Friends] by Raúl the Third; illus. by the author; color by Elaine Bay Primary Versify/Houghton ...
Rise of the Halfling King [Tales of the Feathered Serpent] by David Bowles; illus. by Charlene Bowles Intermediate, Middle School Cinco Puntos 64 pp. g 10/20 Paper ed. 978-1-947627-37-6 $12.95 e-book ed. 978-1-947627-38-3 $12.95 In this series starter, David Bowles, author of 2018’s Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths...
Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns: A Mesoamerican Creation Myth by Duncan Tonatiuh; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Abrams 40 pp. g 9/20 978-1-4197-4677-2 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64700-154-4 $15.29 The Feathered Serpent, known as Quetzalcóatl among Nahuatl-speaking peoples, is a principal figure in Mesoamerican cosmology and often features in...