Title: Viva Lola Espinoza
Author: Ella Ceron
Publisher: Kokia/ Penguin Random House
Published Date: April 11, 2023
Genre: Contemporary, Family, YA
Source: Netgalley, Publisher, & Library
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ .5
Goodreads Summary:
A debut young adult novel that’s Pride & Prejudice with a dash of magic, about a booksmart teen who spends the summer in Mexico City, meets two very cute boys,…
12 Brand New YA Books [Released April 8th to 14th 2023]
✨ 12 Brand New YA Books [Released April 8th to 14th 2023] ✨
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PUBLISHED APRIL 8th TO 14th 2023
Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everythingby Justine Pucella WinansGenre: Mystery | Thriller | LGBTPublisher: Clarion
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❓What's your favorite book written by a Hispanic or Latine author?
❤🔥 The Luis Ortega Survival Club - Sonora Reyes
✨ With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo
❤🔥 Brownstone - Samuel Teer & Mar Julia
✨ Suncatcher - Jose Pimienta
❤🔥 Mexican WhiteBoy - Matt de la Peña
❤🔥 The First to Die at the End - Adam Silvera
✨ Shut Up, This Is Serious - Carolina Ixta
❤🔥 Small Town Monsters - Diana Rodriguez Wallach
✨ I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L Sanchez
❤🔥 Chronically Dolores - Maya Van Wagenen
✨ It's All Love - Jenna Ortega
❤🔥 Does My Body Offend You? - Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt
✨ Bad at Love - Gabriela Martins
❤🔥 Northranger - Rey Terciero & Bre Indigo
✨ Before We Were Free - Julia Alvarez
❤🔥 Lucero - Maya Motayne
✨ Queerceañera - Alex Crespo
❤🔥 The Turning Pointe - Vanessa L. Torres
✨ Suddenly a Murder - Lauren Munoz
❤🔥 Always Isn't Forever - JC Cervantes
✨ It Sounds Like This - Anna Meriano
❤🔥 Flirting With Fate - JC Cervantes
✨ Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson
❤🔥 When We Make It - Elisabet Velasquez
✨ Diamond Park - Phillippe Diederich
❤🔥 Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera
✨ Libertad - Bessie Flores Zaldivar
❤🔥 This Is How We Fly - Anna Meriano
✨ Viva Lola Espinoza - Ella Ceron
❤🔥 The Grief Keeper - Alexandra Villasante
✨ Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari
❤🔥 Sanctuary - Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher
✨ Solis - Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher
❤🔥 We Are Not From Here - Jenny Torres Sanchez
✨ Azar on Fire - Olivia Abtahi
❤🔥 Up in Flames - Hailey Alcaraz
✨ Beyond the Break - Heather Buchta
❤🔥 Chasing After Knight - Heather Buchta
✨ Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas
❤🔥 The Sunbearer Trials - Aiden Thomas
✨ What the River Knows - Isabel Ibañez
A great mix of new releases this week that make it hard to choose which exactly one I will buy for myself to celebrate making it to spring break. What would you choose?
A Crown So Cursed (The Nightmare–Verse #3) by L.L. McKinney
Imprint
In the third book in L.L. McKinney’s Nightmare-Verse trilogy, Alice gets one last chance to save Wonderland from itself.
Alice and the gang are trying to recover from recent events—but members of her crew start having weird dreams. The same dreams. It seems the evil in Wonderland may not be as defeated as they thought—because someone’s building an army of Nightmares to attack the mortal world. But before Alice jumps into battle, she discovers she has a personal connection to Wonderland, and she must face what it means for the fight ahead. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads
The Making of Yolanda la Bruja by Lorraine Avila
Levine Querido
Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She’s starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with Jose, a senior boy she’s getting to know. She’s confident her initiation into her family’s bruja tradition will happen soon.
But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes are off. And Yolanda’s initiation begins with a series of troubling visions of the violence this boy threatens. How can Yolanda protect her community, in a world that doesn’t listen? Only with the wisdom and love of her family, friends, and community – and the Brujas Diosas, her ancestors and guides.
The Making of Yolanda La Bruja is the book this country, struggling with the plague of gun violence, so desperately needs, but which few could write. Here Lorraine Avila brings a story born from the intersection of race, justice, education, and spirituality that will capture readers everywhere. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads
Throwback by Maurene Goo
Zando Young Readers
Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the ’90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen.
Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one. Samantha Kang has never gotten along with her mother, Priscilla—and has never understood her bougie-nightmare, John Hughes high school expectations. After a huge fight between them, Sam is desperate to move forward—but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back.
To her shock, Sam finds herself back in high school . . . in the ’90s . . . with a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now this Gen Z girl must try to fit into an analog world. She’s got the fashion down, but everything else is baffling. What is “microfiche”? What’s with the casual racism and misogyny? And why does it feel like Priscilla is someone she could actually be . . . friends with?
Sam’s blast to the past has her finding the right romance in the wrong time while questioning everything she thought she knew about her mom . . . and herself. Will Sam figure out what she needs to do to fix things for her mom so that she can go back to a time she understands? Brimming with heart and humor, Maurene Goo’s time-travel romance asks big questions about what exactly one inherits and loses in the immigrant experience. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads
Viva Lola Espinoza! by Ella Cerón
Kokila
A debut young adult novel that’s BOOKSMART with a dash of magic, about a Mexican American teen who spends the summer in Mexico City, meets two very cute boys, attempts to learn Spanish, and uncovers a family secret that changes her life forever.
Lola Espinoza is cursed in love. Well, maybe not actually cursed — magic isn’t real, is it? When Lola goes to spend the summer with her grandmother in Mexico City and meets handsome, flirtatious Rio, she discovers the unbelievable truth: Magic is very real, and what she’d always written off as bad luck is actually, truly . . . a curse. If Lola ever wants to fall in love without suffering the consequences, she’ll have to break the curse. She finds an unlikely curse-breaking companion in Javi, a seemingly stoic boy she meets while working in her cousin’s restaurant. Javi is willing to help Lola look into this family curse of hers, and Lola needs all the help she can get. Over the course of one summer — filled with food, family, and two very different boys — Lola explores Mexico City while learning about herself, her heritage, and the magic around us all. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads
Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Candlewick Press
Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He’s excited to take part in the fun, spooky show—until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an “Indian maiden,” a ghost inspired by local legend, will headline. Folklore aside, unusual things have been happening at night at the crossroads near Harvest House. A creepy man is stalking teenage girls and young women, particularly Indigenous women; dogs are fretful and on edge; and wild animals are behaving strangely. While Hughie weighs how and when to speak up about the bigoted legend, he and his friends begin to investigate the crossroads and whether it might be haunted after all. As Moon rises on All Hallow’s Eve, will they be able to protect themselves and their community? Gripping and evocative, Harvest House showcases a versatile storyteller at her spooky, unsettling best. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads
Ooops! We missed a book last week. What do you think of this new release?
Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
A romantic ode to the strength of love and the power of choosing each other, against odds and obstacles, again and again.
What would you do if you forgot the love of your life ever even existed?
Stevie and Nora had a love. A secret, epic, once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. They also had a plan: to leave their small, ultra-conservative town and families behind after graduation and move to California, where they could finally stop hiding that love.
But then Stevie has a terrible fall. And when she comes to, she can remember nothing of the last two years—not California, not coming to terms with her sexuality, not even Nora. Suddenly, Stevie finds herself in a life she doesn’t quite understand, one where she’s estranged from her parents, drifting away from her friends, lying about the hours she works, dating a boy she can’t remember crushing on, and headed towards a future that isn’t at all what her fifteen-year-old self would have envisioned.
And Nora finds herself…forgotten. Can the two beat the odds a second time and find their way back together when “together” itself is just a lost memory?
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Author: Ella Cerón
Title: ¡Viva Lola Espinoza!
Saga: No
Published: 11 April 2023
Genre: Contemporary, young adult
Stars: 4
Official Synopsis: Lola Espinoza is cursed in love. Well, maybe not actually cursed — magic isn’t real, is it? When Lola goes to spend the summer with her grandmother in Mexico City and meets handsome, flirtatious Rio, she discovers the unbelievable truth: Magic is very…