Some Recent YA Reading

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I read a fair amount of recent Young Adult and Middle Grade books over the last year. These are some of my favorites, in no particular order.

Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall is a YA fantasy involving five sisters who find a body floating in the Rio Grande. Their father has recently run out on their mother, and it happens that their paternal grandmother, whom they haven’t seen in some time, lives near where the dead man came from. They worry the dead man’s family won’t k...