Lupe Wong Won’t Dance
Lupe Wong is determined to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She’s also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy…like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles.
And some not so much…like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who’s Chinacan / Mexinese just like her. So, when the horror that is square dancing rears its head in gym? Obviously, she’s not gonna let that slide.
Not since Millicent Min, Girl Genius has a debut novel introduced a character so memorably, with such humor and emotional insight. Even square dancing fans will agree…
Type: Middle Grade Novel
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Publication: June 14, 2022
ISBN: 9781646141609
Type: Middle Grade Novel
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Publication: September 8, 2020
ISBN: 9781646140039
PRAISE
2021 PURA BELPRÉ HONOR
PNBA Award Winner
A Best Children's Book of Year from Globe & Mail
A Booklist Editor’s Choice Best Books for Youth 2020
★ “A home run.”
—Publisher Weekly (starred)
★ “A laugh-out-loud story about family, friendship, and the beauty in being true to yourself.”
—Booklist (starred)
“Higuera has knocked it out of the park.”
—Erin Entrada Kelly, The New York Times Book Review
About Donna Barba Higuera
Donna grew up in central California surrounded by agricultural and oil fields. As a child, rather than dealing with the regular dust devils, she preferred spending recess squirreled away in the janitor’s closet with a good book. Her favorite hobbies were calling dial-a-story over and over again, and sneaking into a restricted cemetery to weave her own spooky tales using the crumbling headstones as inspiration.
Donna's Young Adult and Middle Grade books feature characters drawn into creepy, situations, melding history, folklore, and or her own life experience into reinvented storylines. She still dreams in Spanglish.
Donna lives in Washington State with her family, three dogs and two frogs. Donna's backyard is a haunted 19th century logging camp. (The haunted part may or may not be true—she makes stuff up.) She is a Critique-Group-Coordinator for SCBWI-Western Washington and teaches “The Hero’s Journey for Young Authors” to future writers.
Follow Donna on Twitter at @dbhiguera.
