Jennifer De Leon

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are traditionally expected to leave home when they get married. In her essay “Only Daughter,” author Sandra Cisneros remarks, “After four years in college and two more in graduate school, and st...

• Feb-2016
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• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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“A funny, perceptive, and much-needed book telling a much-needed story.” -- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Little Fires EverywhereFirst-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly a...

• Mar-2021
• / General Fiction
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Sometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, “What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?” While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she h...

• May-2023
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Caught in the crosshairs of gang violence, a teen girl and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US border in this “engrossing” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult novel from the author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From.Fo...