Jenny Torres Sanchez. Running Press Teens, $9.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-7624-4401-4
Charlie went to “Camp Fit” during the summer before his senior year and lost 30 pounds, but he’s still carrying a heavy load. His volatile mother has disappeared again, and Charlie learns that his father is harboring a secret. Adding to his...
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Jenny Torres Sanchez. Philomel, $18.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3775-7
In December 1985, someone brutally assaulted eight-year-old Emilia DeJesus and left her for dead on an elementary-school playground in Hempstead, N.Y. Nine years later, Emilia is trying to put the past behind her and live the life of a normal...
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Jenny Torres Sanchez. Philomel, $18.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9848-1226-1
This powerful novel by Sanchez (Because of the Sun) follows three teenagers fleeing the violence, danger, and poverty of Puerto Barrios, the Guatemalan home they simultaneously love and hate. Stirred by renewed fear of local gang leader Rey, the...
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Jenny Torres Sanchez, illus. by André Ceolin. Viking, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-20500-6
In Torres
Sanchez’s picture book debut, young Rocio moves from an unspecified Central American country to the U.S. There, she’s no longer able to appreciate her abuela’s tortillas and piñatas, nor visit the small grocery store “where her grandmother
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Edited by Amy Reed. Simon Pulse, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5344-0899-9
Twenty-one female YA authors and selected unpublished writers reflect on social justice, feminism, and coming-of-age in the U.S. Brandy Colbert discusses the lessons she has learned about the erasure of black individuals, Reed details experiences...
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