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Sandra C. Lopez

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Born

in Southern California, The United States

Website

http://www.sandra-lopez.com

Genre

Young Adult, Chick Lit, Contemporary

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A lot of writers!

Member Since

July 2008

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Sandra C. López is one of today's influential Latina authors in Young Adult literature. Her first novel, Esperanza: A Latina Story, was published in March 2008 WHILE she was still in college. Since then she has published several other books, including the Single Chicas series. She was named as one of "2011 Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch" by Latino Stories, and her book, Beyond the Gardens, was a Silver Medal winner of the 2016 Global Ebook Awards in Multicultural Fiction and won first place in the Int'l Latino Book Awards. She also works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Art, literature, and travel are her passions, and she aims to keep doing them as long as she can. For inquiries regarding events and projects, please co ...more

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Blog Tour: ARABESQUE by MG da Mota

ARABESQUE

by M G da Mota

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GENRE: historical psychologicaldrama

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BLURB:

Awoman living alone in a coastal Sussex town in 1998 plants a copper beechsapling at 3 a.m. on a dark, cold night. Why?

A ballet dancer in1960s East Germany is oppressed, longs for escaping with his little daughterbut not his wife. Why? Will he make it?

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Average rating: 4.1 · 164 ratings · 128 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Single Chicas 4.08 avg rating — 104 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Gardens 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Esperanza: A Latina Story 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sandra Lopez rated a book really liked it Forbidden Falls (Liars Island) by V.J. Chambers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A high school guy’s plan to get revenge on his boss. The plan was to seduce, humiliate, and blackmail her. For a while, we read on about how he was failing at his task. The ending was a mild, ironic twist. Overall, a nice short read.
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Sandra Lopez rated a book really liked it Please Do Not Feed the Weirdo (Goosebumps SlappyWorld, #4) by R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
You see some strange things at a carnival. The strangest part was a boy in a cage with that odd sign. Why did they feed him? Now, a monster was unleashed. This was interesting because you couldn’t tell what the monster could morph into. Creepy, huh? ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book really liked it The Tryout: A Graphic Novel by Christina Soontornvat (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Christina Sooritorrivat was entering the 7th grade and she wasn’t quite fitting in. Well, to be honest, she never fit in. When the other girls were flashing their sports bras, she was still wearing T-shirts over her flat chest. Sigh! She had to deal ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book liked it The Squad: A Graphic Novel (The Tryout #2) by Christina Soontornvat (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Text was way too small to read and it wouldn’t enlarge that much on my Kindle. I could only browse the story just by the pictures, which were good. Even the pictures were kind of small though. I liked the dynamics and the gumption of the characters. ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book it was amazing Liars Lane (Liars Island) by L.A. Dobbs (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A 16-year-old girl was doing a biography report on her dead grandfather, sending her mother to look more into the car accident that killed both her parents. Right away there were secrets to be uncovered like who Ballad’s father really was and what re ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book really liked it Ransom Road (Liars Island) by Anya Mora	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A young nanny gets coerced into a scheme to kidnap her new client’s baby. She doesn’t want to do it, but she needs the money to help her mom. Can Bex really take the baby? No, in fact, Bex would do anything to protect this child. Suddenly, she finds ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book liked it Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
“Meet my friends, the fellow castaways from Flight 3694.” One blizzard. One ride. Six hours. Five strangers. Mira would do whatever it took to get home to her mom on Christmas, even if that meant hitching a ride with strangers. This premise sounded p ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book liked it Claudia Must Die by T.B. Markinson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A woman on the run known as The Hunted—Claudia. She knew he was looking for her and that he was going to kill her. The only chance she had of survival, of living again, was for someone to take her place. What luck that she found a dead ringer—a look- ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book it was ok The New Year's Party (Fear Street Super Chiller, #9) by R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The first part is all about a car accident that happened in 1965. The second part is set in the present time with a bunch of high school kids. Part 2 takes a while to drum up interest and set the story. All these kids ever did was play jokes on each ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book liked it The Lonely Prisoner (The Michael Fletcher Series Book 1) by Michael J. Kundu (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
What if you went to prison for a crime you didn’t commit? That was the case with Michael as he sits in a rotting jail cell. This certainly struck me as an interesting read based on the premise. What we actually get is a journal of the lonely prisoner ...more
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