Matt de la Peña. Delacorte, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-74120-0
De la Peña (I Will Save You) delivers near-constant action, a high body count, and a compelling cast of characters in this socially aware thriller. Shy Espinoza’s summer gig working on a luxury cruise ship is not going as planned. On his first...
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Matt de La Pena, Author . Delacorte $16.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-385-73232-1
De la Peña recounts one eventful day in the life of basketball phenom Sticky Reichard, 17, with flashbacks that fill in his horrific childhood. Since age seven, Sticky's ricocheted between group and foster homes before settling in Venice...
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Matt de La Pena, Author . Delacorte $17.99 (357p) ISBN 978-0-385-73667-1
When Miguel, a high school student from Stockton, Calif.—“where every other person you meet has missing teeth or is leaning against a liquor store wall begging for change to buy beer”—commits an undisclosed crime, he is...
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Matt de la Peña, illus. by Christian Robinson. Putnam, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25774-2
Like still waters, de la Peña (A Nation’s Hope) and Robinson’s (Gaston) story runs deep. It finds beauty in unexpected places, explores the difference between what’s fleeting and what lasts, acknowledges inequality, and testifies to the love shared...
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Matt de la Peña, illus. by Kadir Nelson, Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3167-7
Nelson's (Mama Miti) photographically realistic, luminescent oil paintings bring to life this lyrical tribute to boxing legend Joe Louis. Focusing on Louis's 1938 rematch against German Max Schmeling, "Son of a black sharecropper/ against Hitler's ‘m
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Matt de la Peña, illus. by Loren Long. Putnam, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4091-7
De la Peña’s prose poem speaks right to young children. “In the beginning there is light/ and two wide-eyed figures standing/ near the foot of your bed,/ and the sound of their voices is love,” he opens as an interracial couple looks down at a crib.
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Matt de la Peña, illus. by Christian Robinson. Putnam, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-54904-5
It’s Carmela’s birthday, and she’s finally old enough to accompany her big brother on his errands. On their way to the laundromat, Carmela finds a puffy white dandelion to blow. De la Peña captures with a fine ear the tone of their sibling dialogue:
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