Edited by Sarah Cortez, You Don't Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens features young adults dealing with typical angst, but they also deal with every kind of thrilling situation imaginable--from missing girls to dismembered bodies. With a foreword by young adult literature expert, Dr. James Blasingame of Arizona State University, this collection is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats until the last page is turned.
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May 6, 2011 Murder By The Book,
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By: Manuel Ramos,
on 3/10/2011
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YOU DON'T HAVE A CLUE
You Don't Have a Clue, edited by Sarah Cortez, foreword by James Blasingame (Arte Público, April, 2011)
You Don't Have a Clue is aimed at the young adult audience and features several writers who should be familiar to La Bloga's readers. In case you can't read the graphic above, here's the list of contributors: Mario Acevedo, Patricia S. Carrillo, Sarah Cortez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Nanette Guadiano, Chema Guijarro, Carlos Hernandez, Bertha Jacobson, Diana López, R. Narvaez, Daniel A. Olivas, Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie, L.M. Quinn, Manuel Ramos, René Saldaña, Jr., Sergio Troncoso, Ray Villareal, Gwendolyn Zepeda. Quite a lineup.
The Denver kick-off for this book co-stars Mario Acevedo and Manuel Ramos, as well as students from Trevista at Horace Mann, who will read from their own writing. Join us on May 20 at 7:00 PM at the Tattered Cover (Colfax).
Meanwhile, editor-author Sarah Cortez and contributors Gwendolyn Zepeda and Diana López celebrate the publication of You Don't Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens at Houston's Murder by the Book (2342 Bissonnet Street, 77005). May 6, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
And in case you were wondering whether the book is any good, here's some of the review from Kirkus, a tough audience to please:
"Readers with a taste for the gruesome will be delighted by Xander’s discovery of a freshly severed human arm in his school locker in R. Narvaez’s hilarious and memorable Hating Holly Hernandez or the bloody, eye-gouging battle with alien fugit
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happy mother's day weekend to all!
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