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6 YA Latinx Authors Reading Online for National Hispanic Heritage Month

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6 YA Latinx Authors Reading Online for National Hispanic Heritage Month

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National Hispanic Heritage Month lasts from September 15 to October 15, every year. The holiday was created by the U.S. government in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week. Twenty years later, it was expanded to a month-long celebration.

During this time, Americans celebrate "the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America."

A great way to participate annually is to read Latinx authors that are writing inclusive, young adult books. The publishing industry needs to tell diverse stories, and the following six authors are doing just that. But remember that this is just an introduction, there are more great Latinx authors to read.

Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X, which was published in 2018, was Elizabeth Acevedo's breakthrough book. She won many awards for it, including a National Book Award and the Pura Belpre Award. It was also a New York Times Bestseller.

Acevedo is an award-winning poet, and this novel is in verse form. The main character is Xiomara Batista, a high school student, that is exploring faith, sexuality, and identity.

Her second book, With the Fire on High, follows main character Emoni Santiago. A teen mother, with a passion for cooking, she wants to follow her dreams-but it won't be easy. It is being turned into a movie, according to Deadline.

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Gabby Rivera

Her debut novel, Juliet Takes a Breath, explores coming out, family, and identity. One of the positive reviews of the book came from bestselling writer and commentator Roxane Gay. Per her site, it's scheduled to be published in hardcover in the fall of 2019.

In addition, one of her short stories appears in the anthology, A People's Future of the United States.

Not only is Rivera a young adult author, she's also working on Marvel's first queer, Latina superhero.

Lilliam Rivera

So far, Lilliam Rivera has written two YA books: The Education of Margot Sanchez and Dealing in Dreams.

The first is about teenage Margot and how she deals with her family, and trying to impress the kids at her prep school. Whereas the second book is a dystopian story of the girl gang Las Mal Criadas in Mega City. Friendships are important in this story, as Nalah fights to reach her goal.

Rivera is also branching out into middle grade books, with the forthcoming book Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit.

Erika L. Sanchez

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is Erika L. Sanchez's debut novel. In this story, the main character Julia navigates difficult family relationships and her sister's mysterious death.

The book was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times bestseller.

Sanchez has written poems and essays as well. Her poetry has appeared in journals like the Boston Review and the Poetry Magazine.

Adam Silvera

Some of Silvera's notable books are They Both Die at the End, History is All You Left Me, and his debut novel More Happy Than Not. He often explores queer identity, grief, and love in his writing.

Silvera also wrote a book with Becky Albertalli titled, What If It's Us. He has a book coming out in 2020 called Infinity Son, part of the Infinity Cycle. It's described on Amazon as "a gritty, fast-paced adventure about two brothers caught up in a magical war generations in the making."

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Books by Benjamin Alire Sáenz include The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, and He Forgot To Say Goodbye.

His writing includes stories on self-discovery, LGBTQ+ representation, complicated relationships, and more.

The poet and novelist has won several awards, such as the PEN/Faulkner Award, a Stonewall Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award.

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6 YA Latinx Authors to Read During Hispanic Heritage Month

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National Hispanic Heritage Month lasts from September 15 to October 15, every year. The holiday was created by the U.S. government in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week. Twenty years later, it was expanded to a month-long celebration. During this time, Americans celebrate "the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America."

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Latino Book and Family Festival--Virtual in 2020!

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30 YA Books By Latinx Authors We Can't Wait To Read In 2020

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30 YA Books By Latinx Authors We Can't Wait To Read In 2020

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30 YA Books By Latinx Authors We Can't Wait To Read In 2020

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Available at CML. Told in two voices, ballet dancer and private school student Isabelle Warren and poet and baseball star Alex Rosario grow closer after meeting on a subway, bonding over their parents' expectations and their own dreams.

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Characteristics: 289 pages ; 22 cm

Summary: Told in two voices, ballet dancer and private school student Isabelle Warren and poet and baseball star Alex Rosario grow closer after meeting on a subway, bonding over their parents' expectations and their own dreams.

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This Train Is Being Held - Columbus Metropolitan Library

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This Train Is Being Held (Book) : Williams, Ismée : Told in two voices, ballet dancer and private school student Isabelle Warren and poet and baseball star Alex Rosario grow closer after meeting on a subway, bonding over their parents' expectations and their own dreams.

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Memoir "The Distance Between Us" and "A Dream Called Home.

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Available at CML. The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sister's memory. Their dream of leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start happening around the house: mysterious laughter, mysterious shadows, mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana really is haunting them, trying to send them a message--and what exactly she's trying to say.

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Tigers, Not Daughters focuses on the lives of Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, the three younger sisters of Ana, who died tragically almost a year ago to the day. None of the three sisters, nor their father, have handled the loss of Ana well. Even before Ana fell from the tree outside her bedroom window, the four Torres sisters had wanted to leave their small town just outside of San Antonio. All three surviving sisters have their own grief and regret with regards to Ana, each unfolding with the story. Each needs something of Ana that it another sister, or even an ex-boyfriend, may seem to have. As they attempt to survive their grief, each sister is visited by Ana as she tries to make her message clear.

As far as ghost stories go, this one is a slow motion train wreck that shows that humans can be far scarier than ghosts. Each moment of the week leading up to the year anniversary of Ana's death is riddled with horrific incidents that are grotesque compared to the mild haunting that Ana is playing upon the house. Each sister struggles with their own demons that have only materialized and grown since Ana left them.

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Tigers, Not Daughters (Book) : Mabry, Samantha : "The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them.

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Available at CML. Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand"-- Provided by publisher.

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Publisher: New York :, Atheneum,, [2020]

Characteristics: 323 pages ; 22 cm

Summary: "Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand"-- Provided by publisher.

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Don't Ask Me Where I'm From (Book) : De Leon, Jennifer : "Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand"-- Provided by publisher.

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A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

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Available at CML. Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them.

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Publisher: Boston :, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,, [2020]

Characteristics: 450 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them.

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Publisher: Boston :, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,, [2020] Characteristics: 450 pages ; 22 cm. Summary: Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them.

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Available at CML. In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.

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Publisher: New York :, G. P. Putnam's Sons,, [2020]

Characteristics: 304 pages ; 22 cm

Summary: In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.

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Publisher: New York :, G. P. Putnam's Sons,, [2020] Characteristics: 304 pages ; 22 cm Summary: In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.

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May 2023
Book Release
Margarita's upcoming book, The Sculptors of Light and its Spanish edition, La Escultoras de La Luz, is a collection of poetry that highlights the lives and legacies of eight Cuban women who have redefined art in their communities.

This book is scheduled for publication in October 2023 by Reycraft Books and both editions are Junior Library Guild's selection.

April 2023
Book Release
Wings in the Wild and its Spanish edition, Alas Salvaje, is now available at local bookstores and online retailers.

The book recently received starred review on the Publishers Weekly and, both translations are Junior Library Guild's selection.

January 2023
New Book Announcement
Water Day is a story about a young girl and her community celebrating the arrival of the water man who visits weekly to distribute water to the village.This joyful picture book will be released in May 2023.

December 2022
New Book Announcement
Destiny Finds Her Way, a heartwarming rescued baby sloth story will be published in February 7, 2023. It tells the true story of Destiny, a rescued orphaned baby sloth who must learn to return to the wild of Costa Rican rainforest.

November 2022
New Edition and Translation Announcement
Drum Dream Girl will soon be available in German translation, Brailled edition, and First Book edition

June 2022
New Book Announcement
Wings in the Wild, a new romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle that tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights. This book will be published in April 2023.

Singing with Elephants featured interviews on NPR's Morning Edition and We Need Diverse Book.

This book also received starred review from Publishers Weekly and a feature review on New York Times.

January 2022

NEW! See the animated cover image for Rima's Rebellion, a new book that will be published on February 15.

Your Heart, My Sky was selected as 2021 Nerdies for Best Poetry and Novels in Verse

A Song of Frutas/Un pregón de frutas was reviewed in New York Times Book Review and included in Junior Library Guild Selection.

With a Star in My Hands is a finalist for SCBWI's Golden Kite Young Adult Fiction Award.

Los Angeles Public Library selected Manos que bailan: Co´mo Teresa Carren~o toco´ el piano para el Presidente Lincoln for their Lo mejor del 2021 list.

October 2021

A Song of Frutas and Your Heart, My Sky have received starred reviews from School Library Journal.

A Song of Frutas is also listed on SLJ's 29 Picture Books to Celebrate the Latinx Experience and Publishers Weekly's List of Kids in the Kitchen Books.

Dancing Hands was Target Stores' Hispanic Heritage Month Featured Books

With a Star in My Hands has been selected as young adult book of the month for Read Across America's March 2022 list.

August 2021

Margarita's newest book, A Song of Frutas, received a starred review from Booklist.

Your Heart, My Sky has been nominated for YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults #BFYA2022.

July 2021
New Book Announcement
Rima's Rebellion is an inspiring coming-of-age story about a girl falling in love for the first time while finding the courage to protest for women's right to vote in 1920s Cuba. This novel will be published in February 2022

June 2021
New Book AnnouncementMargarita's latest collaboration with award-winning illustrator Raúl Colón, will be published in October 2021.
Light for All is a lyrical and unifying picture book that celebrates the immigrant experience in America.
Margarita's upcoming picture book A Song of Frutas is called 'A joyful celebration of Cuban tradition and family ties' in a starred review from Kirkus.

March 2021

Margarita's new YA verse novel Your Heart, My Sky is now available through online retailer or your local bookstores.

This book has been recently featured on Kirkus Most Anticipated Books of 2021 and YA Buzz Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Books of 2021.

February 2021

Margarita has been invited to participate in creating IBBY International Children's Day Poster 2021. She wrote the text and translation of the inspirational message on the poster, which is available on the USBBY newsletter.

Margarita co-curated the first-ever young readers issue of Poetry Magazine from the Poetry Foundation, along with Jacqueline Woodson and Naomi Shihab Nye.

November 2020

New book cover reveal on SLJ's Fuse 8 for Margarita's new picture book A Song of Frutas, and its Spanish language edition Un pregón de frutas , to be published August 3, 2021.

Spanish language edition for The Flying Girl (La joven aviadora) will be published on May 4, 2021.

October 2020

Spanish language version for Soaring Earth (La Tierra al Vuelo) is now available at your local bookstore or online.

Spanish language version of Dancing Hands (Manos que bailan) will be released on May 21, 2021.

Award News: Margarita is honored to be nominated for 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

Margarita was included in League of Women Voters of Fresno County's exhibit titled 100 Notable Women Who Made a Difference in Fresno County.

August 2020

Spanish language version of Soaring Earth (La Tierra al Vuelo) will be published on October 6, 2020. Find it at your local bookstores or online.

New book cover reveal for Margarita's new YA verse novel Your Heart, My Sky, to be published March 23, 2021.

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Short Bio:

Matt de la Peña is the New York Times Bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning author of seven young adult novels (including Mexican WhiteBoy, We Were Here, and Superman: Dawnbreaker) and six picture books (including Milo Imagines the World and Last Stop on Market Street). In 2016 he was awarded the NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award. Matt received his MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University and his BA from the University of the Pacific where he attended school on a full basketball scholarship. In 2019 Matt was given an honorary doctorate from UOP. de la Peña currently lives in Southern California. He teaches creative writing and visits schools and colleges throughout the country.

* Read Matt's NPR essay about the saving powers of literacy and creativity - especially in working class communities.

* Read Matt's essay in Time Magazine about exploring tough topics in picture books.

* Read Matt's Newbery acceptance speech.

* Listen to Matt and Christian talk about their latest collaboration, Milo Imagines the World, on NPR.

*The New York Times followed Matt into Tucson High School after his book was banned from the curriculum (along with the work of several other Hispanic authors). Read article here.

Longer Bio:

Matt de la Peña is the New York Times Bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning author of seven young adult novels and six picture books. Matt's debut novel, Ball Don't Lie, was published by Delacorte in 2005. The book was made into a major motion picture (released in the fall of 2011) starring Ludacris, Nick Cannon, Emelie de Ravin, Grayson Boucher, and Rosanna Arquette (Night and Day Pictures). The book was named as an ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults and an ALA-YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers.

In 2008 de la Peña's second novel, Mexican WhiteBoy, was released by Delacorte, and his short story " Last Red Light Before We're There" appeared in the anthology Does This Book Make Me Look Fat. Mexican WhiteBoy was a ALA-YALSA Best Books for Young Adults (Top Ten Pick), a 2009 Notable Book for a Global Society, a Junior Library Guild Selection and it made the 2008 Bulletin for the Center of Children's Literature Blue Ribbon List.

Matt's third novel, We Were Here, released by Delacorte in 2009, was an ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA-YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, a Junior Library Guild Selection and was named to the 2010 NYC Public Library Stuff for the Teen Age list.

In 2010 Matt's fourth novel, I Will Save You, was released by Delacorte and was named an ALA-YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, a Junior Library Guild Selection and was a finalist for the 2011 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award.

In January 2011 his first picture book, A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis (Illustrated by Kadir Nelson) was released by Dial Press. His first middle grade story " Believing in Brooklyn" appeared in Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

In 2013 Matt's fifth young adult novel, The Living, was released by Delacorte. He also wrote two books in Scholastic's popular Infinity Ring Series: Curse of the Ancients and Eternity.

In 2015 Matt's second picture book, Last Stop on Market Street (illustrated by Christian Robinson), was released by Penguin and was awarded the 2016 Newbery Medal. His sixth YA novel, The Hunted (a sequel to The Living) was released by Delacorte.

In 2016 Matt was awarded the NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award.

In 2017 Matt's third picture book, Miguel and the Grand Harmony (illustrated by Ana Ramirez), was released by Disney in both English and Spanish. The book is a tie-in to the wildly popular Pixar movie COCO.

In January of 2018 Matt's fourth picture book, Love (illustrated by Loren Long), was released by Penguin. His fifth picture book, Carmela Full of Wishes (illustrated by Christian Robinson), was released by Penguin in October 2018.

In 2019, Random House published Matt's seventh YA novel, Superman: Dawnbreaker.

In 2021, Penguin published Matt's third collaboration with Christian Robinson, Milo Imagines the World.

He has also published short fiction and essays in various newspapers and literary journals, including: Time Magazine, The New York Times, NPR.org, The Writer, Pacific Review, One Teen Story, The Vincent Brothers Review, Chiricú, George Mason Review, and Allegheny Literary Review.

Matt received his MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University and his BA from the University of the Pacific, where he attended school on a full athletic scholarship for basketball. In 2019 Matt was awarded an honorary doctorate from UOP.

de la Peña currently lives in Southern California. He teaches creative writing and visits schools and colleges all over the country.

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Meg Medina is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling author who writes picture books, as well as middle grade and young adult fiction.

Her works have been called "heartbreaking," "lyrical" and "must haves for every collection." Her titles include:

Evelyn del Rey is Moving Away / Evelyn del Rey se muda, 2020 Jumpstart Read for the Record Selection

Merci Suárez Changes Gears, 2019 John Newbery Medal winner, and 2019 Charlotte Huck Honor Book;

Burn Baby Burn, long-listed for the 2016 National Book Award, short-listed for the Kirkus Prize, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ;

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, winner of the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award;

The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, a 2012 Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year;

Mango, Abuela, and Me, a 2016 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book; and

Tía Isa Wants a Car, winner of the 2012 Ezra Jack Keats New Writers Award.

When she's not writing, Meg works on community projects that support girls, Latino youth, and/or literacy. She serves on the National Board of Advisors for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and is a faculty member of Hamline University's Masters of Fine Arts in Children's Literature. She lives with her family in Richmond, Virginia.

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Dominican-American poet and author.

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official bio ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré …

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Rosa Santos, a Cuban American, works to save her Florida town, seeks admittance to study abroad in her homeland, and wonders if love can break her family's curse.

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Rosa Santos, a Cuban American, works to save her Florida town, seeks admittance to study abroad in her homeland, and wonders if love can break her family's curse.

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Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back"

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With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Still, she doesn't have enough time for her school's new culinary arts class, doesn't have the money for their trip to Spain---and certainly can't follow her dreams of working in a real kitchen someday. But even with all the rules she has for her life---and all the rules everyone expects her to play by---once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.

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Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

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The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy of swans deep in the woods. They know that, one day, the swans will pull them into a dangerous game that will leave one of them a girl, and trap the other in the body of a swan. But when two local boys become drawn into the game, the swans' spell intertwines with the strange and unpredictable magic lacing the woods, and all four of their fates depend on facing truths that could either save or destroy them.

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Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color

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In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"

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Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government.

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Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California

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Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she must decide if she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants.

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After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.

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Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.

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When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.