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Shut Up, This Is Serious

Shut Up, This Is Serious - Hardcover

by Carolina Ixta
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Availability:In StockContributor:Carolina IxtaAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2024-01-09Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Quill Tree BooksISBN-13:9780063287860ISBN-10:63287862UPC:9780063287860Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family, Hispanic & LatinoBook Topic:MultigenerationalAward:2025 Pura Belpre Award Winner - Y/A Author Award|2025 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist - Young Adult Literature AwardSize:8.20 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCAPE7HV1E

WINNER OF THE PURA BELPR? YA AUTHOR AWARD

* A Morris Award Finalist * Parade Best Young Adult Books of All Time * Indie Next List Pick *

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that the world is brimming with messy complexities, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Erika L. S?nchez.

Bel?n Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about, because he's Black, and her parents are racist.

Things are hella complicated.

Weighed by a depression she can't seem to shake, Bel?n helps Leti, hangs out with an older guy, and cuts a lot of class. She soon realizes, though, that distractions are only temporary. Leti is becoming a mother. Classmates are getting ready for college. But what about Bel?n? What future is there for girls like her?

From debut author Carolina Ixta comes a fierce, intimate examination of friendship, chosen family, and the generational cycles we must break to become our truest selves.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Quill Tree BooksISBN-13:9780063287860ISBN-10:63287862UPC:9780063287860Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family, Hispanic & LatinoBook Topic:MultigenerationalAward:2025 Pura Belpre Award Winner - Y/A Author Award|2025 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist - Young Adult Literature AwardSize:8.20 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCAPE7HV1E
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Carolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants, she received her BA in creative writing and Spanish language and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and obtained her master's degree in education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her debut novel, Shut Up, This Is Serious, was a Morris Award finalist, an LA Times Book Prize finalist, and the winner of the Pura Belpr? Award. Few Blue Skies is her sophomore novel.

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

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🏆 2025 Pura Belpre Award Winner - Y/A Author Award|2025 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist - Young Adult Literature Award

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