Titles to check out, award winning and/or just interesting
This is the winner of the 2025 Printz (top honor a teen book can have). I'll be posting this article in both the graphic novel and the teen reads blogs as it deserves all the hype. The story definitely deserves the awards it got! On the surface, it's a story of a girl getting to know her estranged father after never having met him in her 14 years of life. However, there is more than that....Almudena has never known her heritage, being raised by her very blonde, white mother. She doesn't speak Spanish either. Her summer is being spent with her Guatemalan father who doesn't speak much English, surrounded by those who prefer to speak Spanish and helping her father fix up a brownstone to help those who are being displaced due to the gentrification of the neighborhood. She is trying to learn who she is, how she fits in and also how her upbringing has influenced her opinions. I don't want to explain more as the journey is half the fun, bu...