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Sep 15, 2024 | 
sites.macmillan.com | Elvira González |Jonny Garza Villa |Alejandro Ruiz |Ursula Villarreal-Moura
In this Spanish edition of her debut picture book Desi, mami y las infinitas preocupaciones, actress Eva Mendes writes the story of a little girl facing the endless scary worries that come just before bedtime. Desi, mami y las infinitas preocupaciones: Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries ofrece una experiencia de audio inmersiva, totalmente sonora diseñada para mejorar tu disfrute. Escuche los chirridos de los grillos nocturnos y los sonidos centelleantes de las campanillas de viento.
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May 3, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Jonny Garza Villa
Alejandro Antonio Ruiz embodies all of the roiling emotions in this compelling queer teen love story. Rafie's intensity comes through clearly in Ruiz's passionate narration. Rafie learned his love of mariachi from his abuelo. He's devastated when his abuelo dies yet is determined to bring home another first-place trophy from the Mariachi Extravaganza. When his family moves to San Antonio, he learns his new school already has a lead singer--who happens to be Rey, the cute boy he met last year.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
unitedbypop.com | Jonny Garza Villa |Kate Oldfield
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If you’ve read any of Jonny Garza Villa’s books before, you’ll be no stranger to their talent for writing a coming-of-age love story that’ll pull on every one of your heart strings and have you giggling, grinning and sniffling in equal measures. Canto Contigo, their newest YA novel, is no different.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
bu.edu | Chasten Buttigieg |Elliott Page |Jonny Garza Villa |Sonora Reyes
Pride month is in full swing. On top of all the fun events happening throughout the city, there’s also a ton of new and classic queer content for you to dig into.
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May 5, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Jonny Garza Villa
Avi Roque gives a spirited, deeply emotional performance of this queer love story set in San Antonio. Nonbinary Mexican American teen Ander is taking a gap year before college, working at their family’s taqueria and focusing on their art. When they fall in love with the taqueria’s newest employee, an undocumented Mexican boy named Santi, it opens up their world in unexpected ways. Roque’s warm and musical narration is utter perfection.
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May 2, 2023 | 
thetwig.com | Jonny Garza Villa
HomeJonny Garza Villa, Ander & Santi Were Here Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander & Santi Were Here, about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family’s taqueria. Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong. The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Martínez has ever known.
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Jonny Garza Villa
"An intimate meditation on romance, stepping into adulthood, home, protecting those you hold dear and more." - The New York Times, "Newly Published""In Santi, Garza Villa has done a superb job of verisimilitude, taking their readers into the precarious life and circumstances of an undocumented teen.
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Apr 23, 2023 | 
goldenlabbookshop.com | Jonny Garza Villa
Description About the Author Details Reviews & Media Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander & Santi Were Here, about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family’s taqueria. Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
booklistonline.com | Jonny Garza Villa
May 2023. 368p. St. Martin’s/Wednesday, $18.99 (9781250843999). Grades 9-12.
REVIEW.
First published March 1, 2023 ().
Nineteen-year-old Mexican American artist Ander, who is nonbinary and queer, is taking a gap year off before they enroll in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Instead, they are staying in San Antonio, having accepted a residency with an organization called Beautify Not Gentrify, which has them painting murals all over the city.
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Feb 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jonny Garza Villa |Joana Estrela |Lorraine Avila |Cynthia Smith
U.S. immigration policies complicate a relationship between two queer San Antonio, Tex., teens in this fervent drama by Garza Villa (Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun). When not working at their tita’s taqueria, called Lupe’s, 19-year-old nonbinary Mexican American artist Ander Martínez spends their time painting murals throughout the neighborhood. After they spot new hire Santiago taking a selfie with one of Ander’s creations, they’re immediately drawn to him.
