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Andrea Beatriz Arango

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Andrea Beatriz Arango is the author of Newbery Honor Book Iveliz Explains It All and the Pura Belpré Honor Book Something Like Home. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where she first became a teacher. She then spent a decade in the United States working in public schools and nonprofits. When she’s not busy writing about middle schoolers and their families, you can find her hoping to spot manatees at the beach. Andrea lives in Puerto Rico with her family and two dogs.

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Iveliz Explains It All

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Something Like Home

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It's All or Nothing, Vale

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Westwood Monster Patrol

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If you add ONE book to your Latinx Heritage Month list, let it be this one.

I mean it.

I had never read about the genocide of Mayan Ixil people during the Guatemalan Civil War. And now that I have, I can't unread it, or unsee the way history (and genoc
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I'm a big fan of Hena's AMINA books (fun fact, Abigail DeLa Cruz did those covers as well as my Iveliz cover - art twins! 🤩), and I'm happy to report Hena's foray into graphic novels did not disappoint.

Maybe I'm biased, what with clearly being in my
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Got to read an advanced copy of this and it got me in my feels - it absolutely brought me back to running errands with my dad. LOVED the rural Mexico setting as well. I'll be reminding y'all of this one next year when it pubs ❤️. ...more
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Where are my SHAKTI fans at? 👀 S.J. Sindu is back (with Dion MBD illustrating), this time with a YA graphic novel set in Sri Lanka during the 2004 tsunami.

In it, aspiring journalist Nimmi travels to Sri Lanka to finally meet her Tamil mother for the
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“How it’s not my brain being messed up, but more my heart being hurt, and how sometimes we think we’re okay, we think we’ve moved on, but then our hearts crack open months or even years later and it’s important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help— ask for love.”
Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

“And I smile at her and my mom
and think how lucky I am
to finally be seen
by people who understand.”
Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

“I am not okay,
and sometimes
I wish people wouldn't believe me
when I say I am.
I wish they would ask, just one more time,
and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me
like I'm a poem,
so I could show them that I'm a real girl,
accidentally cracked.”
Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

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“Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

“Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game going: not knowing, not-not-knowing, not-not-not-knowing? Just be quiet, say nothing, and if you can't say "yes," don't say "no," say "later." Is this why people say "maybe" when they mean "yes," but hope you'll think it's "no" when all they really mean is, Please, just ask me once more, and once more after that?
André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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