A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters by Duncan Tonatiuh; illus. by the author Primary Abrams 48 pp. 11/22 9781419749421 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781647008550 $15.54 With his signature illustrations that draw from Mesoamerican codex pictographic aesthetics, Tonatiuh introduces a picture-book audience to the role that bookmaking played...
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega; illus. by Rose Bousamra Intermediate First Second 224 pp. g 10/22 978-1-250-25962-2 $21.99 Paper ed. 978-1-250-25963-9 $12.99 In a graphic novel that takes on antiblackness and colorism, every Sunday Marlene must sit for hours at the beauty salon while her naturally...
They Call Her Fregona: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles Middle School Kokila/Penguin 256 pp. g9/22 978-0-593-46257-7 $17.99Spanish ed. 978-1-64473-577-0 $12.95 The Rio Grande’s gifted young poet Güero ( They Call Me Güero , rev. 11/18) continues to render the stark beauty of the...
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 Youngest Sister by Suniyay Moreno; illus. by Mariana Chiesa; trans. from Spanish by Elisa AmadoPrimary Aldana Libros/Greystone Kids 40 pp. g5/22 978-1-77164-875-2 $18.95In the Andean mountains of Argentina, five-year-old Picu sets off on a trek to Doña Ciriaca’s house to borrow “the flavor bone” that is shared among the...
The Little House of Hope by Terry Catasús Jennings; illus. by Raúl ColónPrimary Porter/Holiday 32 pp. g6/22 978-0-8234-4716-9 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5301-6 $11.99Spanish ed. 978-0-8234-5203-3 $18.99A “little house” is at the center of this story about generosity among members of an extended immigrant family and the stability they provide for one...
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...