Donna Barba Higuera

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction

My gym shorts burrow into my butt crack like a frightened groundhog. Don't you want to read a book that starts like that?? Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole...

• Oct-2021
• / Fantasy

From Pura Belpré Award winner and Newbery Medalist, Donna Barba Higuera -- a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human. Había una vez . . . There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than...

• Sep-2022
• / Science Fiction

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction

A child confronts conflicting feelings of embarrassment and love for her Mexican abuela in this moving, personal story from Newbery- and Pura Belpré Award�"winning author Donna Barba HigueraMy abuela wears an old yellow handkerchief that her grandm...

• Oct-2023
• / Fantasy

El segundo volumen de la serie de novelas CUENTISTA por Donna Barba Higuera, ganadora del la Medella Newbery y el Premio Pura Belpré Desde hace 400 años, la Tierra es un páramo estéril. Los pocos humanos que quedan luchan por sobrevivir en la cr...

• Oct-2023
• / Science Fiction

• Aug-2025
• / General Fiction

A young monster befriends the human child he???s been assigned to scare in this spooky-funny chapter book debut from Newbery Medal???winning author Donna Barba Higuera, with illustrations throughout by Juliana PerdomoIt???s a monster???s ancient duty...

• Nov-2025
• / General Fiction

It is said the mighty feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl, helped create the earth. He is the hero who stole back the bones of humanity from the evil god of the Underworld. In his quest to bring humans to the earth, Quetzalcoatl's dog-headed twin...

• Mar-2026
• / General Fiction

A young monster and his human child reunite for a new horror???Ram�n???s birthday party!???in this spooky-funny chapter book from Newbery Medal???winning author Donna Barba Higuera, with two-color illustrations throughout by Juliana PerdomoIt???s a m...

• Apr-2026
• / General Fiction

From New York Times bestselling author Donna Barba Higuera, Firesnake delivers a triumphant finale to the story that began with the Newbery Medal-winning The Last Cuentista and continued in the Pura Belpré Honor-winning Alebrijes.Itzel has never...