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Adrianna Cuevas
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Award-winning middle grade author. What Fell From the Sky and Rancho Espanto paperback out now! she/her 🇨🇺 Runs on pastelitos and BTS.
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Excited to announce I’m teaching a class for Highlights Foundation on writing mystery, horror, and adventure for middle grade readers!
Register here: www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/thr...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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April reads! I traveled every weekend in April for book promo so that means lots of audiobooks. #readingroundup #aprilreads
List of books for April round up List of books for April roundup Breakdown of books for April roundup
April 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I agree, Booklist!
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Page from Booklist magazine featuring What Fell From The Sky as a kids’ novel that deserves to be a movie.
April 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Happy 2nd birthday to the Edgar award-winning The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto! I spent this anniversary doing school visits and telling kids about Rafa, the Great Slushee Machine Heist, and the man in the green sweater.
Check out the paperback now and the Spanish edition 9/30! #kidlit #mglit
April 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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MARCH READS! Mostly audiobooks and graphic novels bc I’m on deadline rewriting an entire book in a month and hating everything about the experience.
Favs: Villa, Amulet, How It All Ends, Deviant, Where The Body Was, The Memory Ward
#readingwrapup #marchreads
Smoke and mirrors, the most beautiful girl in Cuba, huda F wants to know, thirteens, when you reach me, Winston Chu and the whimsies, drama, srta quinces, flush, rizos, almost sunset, three days in June, the villa, the country of the blind, amulet, how it all ends Deviant, one came home, where the body was, the cull, usual family mayhem, j v k, on thin ice, they bloom at night, the memory Ward, speak up Santiago, La guardaespaldas, polter-ghost problem 12 audiobooks, 5 dnfs not included in graphic, 9 graphic novels, 3 libros en español
March 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Si quieres leer la edición en español de Rancho Espanto, está disponible en NetGalley!
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Screenshot of NetGalley website featuring the cover of the Spanish edition of The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto (Los Fantasmas de Rancho Espanto)
March 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Library holds! (Which took me two trips to the library to get bc I forgot my wallet 🤦🏽‍♀️)
March 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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I’m struggling through edits of my latest manuscript so when I still get fan mail about my debut… it makes my day. #kidlit #mglit
Kid drawing of characters from The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez I really liked your book. I want to be an author too. So I would like you to give me some tips if you can. Your book was so intriguing and very nicely written. Just there is two things I would like to give feedback on. One, every single chapter was a cliffhanger. Two it would have been nice if the dad came back at the end as a surprise for Nestor.
March 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Library holds have range this week. 🤣 #library #books
March 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I absolutely love how the audiobook for What Fell From the Sky came together and am thankful that Audiofile magazine loved it too! Giordan Diaz does an incredible job as Pineda. Happy listening and reading! #auidiobook #mglit #kidlit
Audiofile magazine review of What Fell From the Sky: Giordan Diaz gives a winning performance as Pineda, communicating his humor and kindness and switching between English and Spanish. As Pineda and his friends try to reunite Luisa with her parents, the mix of voices for other characters who chime in during the story’s climax reinforce the message of the power of community. Warm, funny, and timely.
March 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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February Reads!
March reads will be way less since I got an edit letter yesterday.
One of my fav reads this month was the unpublished journal of a man who walked the Camino and shared with me by his daughter, a librarian who sponsored me for a school visit.
Happy reading! #readingwrapup
List of books- Taco Tuesday, Dust & Grim, Max in the House of Spies, We are Not Strangers, Beetle and the Hollowbones, Dreamover, Stars in their Eyes, Chickenpox, The Girl Who Sang, Blood City Rollers, Love at Full Tilt, Dear Dad, Stories of the Islands, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Garlic and the Witch, Damsel List of books- Too Bright to See, Coco, A Haunted Girl, Letters From Cuba, American Murderer, Chloe Vega and the Agents of Magic, Navigating with You, Sorceline, IRL, That’s Not My Name, Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay, Plain Jane and the Mermaid, Kaya and the ocean, The Flicker, Primera Caida, Across So Many Seas Book covers-Frida y el misterio del anillo del Pavo real y yo, The Last Dragon on Mars, Mike Burger’s Camino de Santiago Journal. Reading Stats- 8 audiobooks, 8 DNFs (not included in the graphic), 14 graphic novels, 3 libros en español
March 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Get ready for an amazing journey with The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon! This post-apocalyptic journey will appeal to all young readers.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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So… y’all ready for some more chaos? Get ready to meet Jordi as he fights to protect Texas cryptids living in his town.
I’m grateful to Trisha de Guzman and Stefanie Sanchez Von Borstel for being with me every step of the way. Thank you to everyone for supporting me and my books! #kidlit #mglit
Book announcement reading “Trisha de Guzman at FSG has bought world rights to Pura Belpré Honoree and Edgar Award winner Adrianna Cuevas's next middle grade novel, tentatively titled Cryptid Keepers, first in a two-book deal about a Cuban American boy who learns that his mother's boring job as a wildlife biologist is actually a cover for protecting creatures of legend like Hogzilla, and must work with her to uncover a new threat who arrives in their Texan town. Publication is slated for fall 2026; Stefanie Sanchez Von Borstel at Full Circle Literary brokered the deal.”
February 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Grateful for this review of What Fell From the Sky from Publisher’s Weekly! #kidlit #mglit #bookreview
Publisher’s Weekly review of What Fell From The Sky reading: Cuevas clearly juxtaposes real-life happenings with the protagonist’s science fiction adventures, paralleling the marginalization of past and present Latinx American citizens with Luisa’s plight as a visitor from outer space… delivers a timely message about the importance of standing against discrimination.
February 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Love seeing The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto represent New Mexico for The Week Junior magazine’s Read Across America book selections! #readacrossamerica #kidlit #mglit
A page from the Week Junior children’s magazine. A map of the United States with a middle grade children’s book representing each state. The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto by Adrianna Cuevas represents New Mexico. Descriptions of representative books for Montana (15 Secrets to Survival), Ohio (Oyher Words for Home), Nebraska (One Big Open Sky), New York (The Tapper Twins), and Oklahoma (Salt Magic). The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto by Adrianna Cuevas represents New Mexico and the description reads “A Florida boy works during the summer at a New Mexico ranch where mysteries abound.”
February 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I got to see my book at the library for the first time today! Thank you, Buda Public Library!
A copy of What Fell From the Sky by Adrianna Cuevas sitting face out on a library bookshelf
February 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Excited to announce The No Brainer’s Guide to Decomposition is on the final ballot for the Stoker award from the Horror Writers Association! And I’m happy to see amigas Mary Averling and Eden Royce on the ballot as well because their books are amazing and you should read them. #kidlit #mglit #horror
February 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Hit the road with this week’s rec, Next Stop by Debbie Fong! This is a wonderful and moving graphic novel that I guarantee you will love. #kidlit #graphicnovel
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February 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Library holds! How much reading can I get done before I get my edit letter next week?? #library #amreading
February 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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And then there were nine! Thank you to everyone who’s supported me and my stories since Nestor came out in 2020. Here’s to more stories about Cuban kiddos going on adventures and learning to be brave. Sigue pa’lante, mi gente. #kidlit #mglit
February 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This week’s recommendation is a book I’m slightly familiar with… What Fell From the Sky! I hope you enjoy this story of unexpected friendship. Happy Friday! www.instagram.com/share/_9wFPB... #kidlit #mglit
February 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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It’s here! I’m excited for everyone to read Pineda and Luisa’s adventure.
When I wrote WFFTS, I never imagined its message of embracing identity and finding community in the face of oppression would be so relevant. I hope this story will give comfort as much as it entertains. bit.ly/3VDmutK #kidlit
Cover of What Fell From the Sky with an SLJ review reading “Historical realism blends with thrilling sci-fi to deliver a story that is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking.”
February 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Oof.
February 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Library holds! Can’t decide what to read first. #books #library #graphicnovel #mglit #kidlit
February 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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What Fell From the Sky was reviewed in The New York Times! Online now and in print in the Sunday Times Book Review. I’m grateful for the love Pineda and Luisa are getting before pub day. Many thanks to Chantal Gersch and Molly Ellis at Macmillan for championing my book! #kidlit #mglit #bookreview
February 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM