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  <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera is the only son of Lucha Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera; the three were campesinos living from crop to crop on the roads of the San Joaquín Valley, Southern California and the Salinas Valley. Herrera's experiences as the child of migrant farmers have strongly shaped his work, such as the children's book Calling the Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats award in 1997. He is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist who draws from real life experiences as well as years of education to inform his work. Community and art has always been part of what has driven Herrera, beginning in the mid-seventies, when he was director of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, an occupied water tank in Balboa Park converted into an arts space for the community.
Herrera’s publications include fourteen collections of poetry, prose, short stories, young adult novels and picture books for children in the last decade with twenty-one books in total.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Fowler, California</hometown>  <born_at>12/27/1948</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971 - 2007]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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        <book id="899115">
  <title><![CDATA[Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.28</average_rating>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Calling the Doves/El Canto De Las Palomas]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1995</published>  
  
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        <book id="1549561">
  <title><![CDATA[Border-Crosser With a Lamborghini Dream (Camino Del Sol)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>12</ratings_count>
  <published>1999</published>  
  
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        <book id="1175050">
  <title><![CDATA[Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>11</ratings_count>
  <published>1999</published>  
  
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        <book id="978484">
  <title><![CDATA[The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.30</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
  <published>2000</published>  
  
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        <book id="414810">
  <title><![CDATA[Giraffe on Fire (Camino Del Sol)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.30</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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        <book id="170391">
  <title><![CDATA[Downtown Boy]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.91</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>11</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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        <book id="1523788">
  <title><![CDATA[Exiles of Desire]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>9</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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        <book id="2404880">
  <title><![CDATA[Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (Camino Del Sol)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.22</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>9</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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