Elizabeth Acevedo Libros

Flor tiene un don: puede predecir, hasta el día, cuándo morirá alguien. Cuando decide que quiere un velorio en vida, una fiesta para reunir a su familia y comunidad y celebrar la larga vida que ha llevado, sus hermanas se sorprenden. ¿Ha previsto Flor su propia muerte? ¿O la de alguien más? Pero Flor no es la única con secretos. Matilde ha intentado durante décadas ocultar la magnitud de la infidelidad de su esposo, pero ahora debe enfrentar la verdadera situación de su matrimonio. Pastora, la hermana más reservada, se siente motivada por el velorio de Flor a intentar resolver los problemas de su hermana. Camila, la más joven, ha decidido que ya no quiere ser ignorada. La siguiente generación, las primas Ona y Yadi, enfrentan sus propios tumultos: Yadi se reencuentra con su primer amor, quien fue encarcelado cuando eran niños; y Ona, casada desde hace años, intenta concebir. Abarcando los tres días previos al velorio, "Legado familiar" traza las vidas de cada una de las mujeres Marte, entrelazando pasado y presente, Santo Domingo y Nueva York.

“Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.” —Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation “An incredibly potent debut.” —Jason Reynolds, author of Ghost “Acevedo has amplified the voices of girls en el barrio who are equal parts goddess, saint, warrior, and hero.” —Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will be captivated by this remarkable #ownvoices novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, featuring an Afro-Latina heroine who expresses her truth with fierce passion. Xiomara Batista feels invisible in her Harlem neighborhood and, as her body matures, she resorts to using her fists to communicate. Yet, she has much to say and channels her frustrations into a leather notebook, reciting her words like prayers, especially after developing feelings for a boy named Aman, whom her family must never know about. With her mother’s strict adherence to church rules, Xiomara learns to keep her thoughts private. When invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she grapples with the fear of her mother discovering her secret. Despite the challenges, Xiomara yearns to perform her poems, determined to make her voice heard in a world that often tries to silence her.

From 2019 Carnegie Medal winner Elizabeth Acevedo comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.'Emoni's story is a gift .

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.