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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2020
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • My gym shorts burrow into my butt crack like a frightened groundhog. Don't you want to read a book that starts like that?? Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole...



  • From Pura Belpré Award winner and Newbery Medalist, Donna Barba Higuera -- a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human. Había una vez . . . There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than...





  • A child confronts conflicting feelings of embarrassment and love for her Mexican abuela in this moving, personal story from Newbery- and Pura Belpré Award"winning author Donna Barba HigueraMy abuela wears an old yellow handkerchief that her grandm...



  • La siguiente novela de Donna Barba Higuera, autora de The Last Cuentista (La última cuentista), galardonada con los premios Newbery y Pura Belpré ... “Un clásico inmediato”. -- School Library Journal (destacado) ... “Imaginación esplen...




  • A young monster befriends the human child he’s been assigned to scare in this spooky-funny chapter book debut from Newbery Medal–winning author Donna Barba Higuera, with illustrations throughout by Juliana PerdomoIt’s a monster&rsqu...




Award-Winning Books by Donna Barba Higuera

The Last Cuentista
2022 Newbery Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donna Barba Higuera has published 7 books.

The next book by Donna Barba Higuera, The Unlikely Aventuras of Ramon and El Cucuy, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Donna Barba Higuera, Lupe Wong Won't Dance, was published in September 2020.

No. Donna Barba Higuera does not write books in series.