Shut Up, This Is Serious Bilingual and The Twelve Days of

and The Twelve Days of Christmas

Born in Xalapa

She is the author of Pura Belpré Author Honor Book We Are Not From Here

this book encourages children to be kind to others and to themselves

3 assorted characters: Hello Kitty dressed as Cheer Bear

Shut Up, This Is Serious Bilingual and The Twelve Days ofBeln Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. Shes at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super Catholic, nerdy ass best friend, is pregnantby the boyfriend she hasnt told her parents about, because hes Black, and her parents are racist. Things are hella complicated. Weighed by a depression she