Donna Barba Higuera

Lupe Wong needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite baseball pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, but her plan goes awry when she has to learn square dancing in gym class.

When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime.

Ramón's friendly monster, El Cucuy, is hesitant to embrace the holiday cheer, but Ramón shows him the spirit of Christmas.

Lupe Wong quiere ser la primera lanzadora femenina en las Grandes Ligas. Durante toda su infancia, ha defendido causas. Algunas dignas...como la expansión de las opciones de raza en los exámenes escolares, para que sean más allá de unas pocas posibilidades. Y otras menos...como quejarse al canal BBC sobre la duración entre temporadas de Doctor Who. Lupe necesita un 100% como calificación en todas sus clases para conocer a su lanzador favorito,...

"Lupe necesita una A en todas las clases para conocer a su lanzador favorito, Fu Li Hernández, un mexi-chino como ella. Qué pasa cuando el baile de country llega al gimnasio? Lupe no se quedará con los brazos cruzados."--

There lived a girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children among them Petra and her family have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet and the discovery that she is the only person...

Ramón is worried about his first day at a new school, but it helps to remind El Cucuy, the monster who lives in his cactus pot, of how brave and strong they both are.