Llega la primera novela para adultos de Elizabeth Acevedo, autora best seller y ganadora del National Book Award. Se trata de la historia de una familia dominicano-estadounidense, narrada a través de las voces de sus mujeres mientras esperan una...
«Una de las primeras cosas que le preguntas a alguien es dónde vive. El lugar del que provenimos deja su huella en nosotros, y si sabes leer las señales de un lugar, sabes un poco más de una persona.»
«Poet X chisporrotea con energía y grita con una voz personal y de gran autenticidad. Cada poema de esta novela en verso increíblemente adictiva y deliciosamente rítmica pide ser leído en voz alta. Xiomara es una protagon...
Ever since she got pregnant during freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about making the tough decisions, doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen. There, she lets her...
Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake--a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she's led--her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen...
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called...
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives....
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives....
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing...
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth....