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Estela, Undrowning by René Peña-Govea
Estela Morales was accepted into one of San Francisco’s top high schools, and she’s among the only Latinas in the building. Her only goal for the year is to get through things and keep her head down. She doesn’t want a fight, evenifher Spanish teacher is low-key racist.
But then Estela places second in the Latine Heritage Poetry Contest. The person who beat her? Not Latine. Now Estela has been thrown into a debate over identity and diversity that is taking over the entire city.
That’s not the whole of her life this year, though. She and her family are also facing eviction.
With comps to Elizabeth Acevedo, this debut verse novel looks outstanding. —Kelly Jensen
More YA out this month: Ramin Abbas Has MAJOR Questions by Ahmad Saber, The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms) by Amélie Wen Zhao,