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Shut Up, This Is Serious

Carolina Ixta

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#6747 of 8,085 books · #662 in Young Adult

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2024).

Shut Up, This Is Serious won the Pura Belpré YA Author Award and was a Morris Award Finalist and Parade Best Young Adult Books of All Time selection. Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant—by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about, because he's Black, and her parents are racist. Things are hella complicated. Weighed by a depression she can't seem to shake, Belén helps Leti, hangs out with an older guy, and cuts a lot of class. She soon realizes, though, that distractions are only temporary. Leti is becoming a mother. Classmates are getting ready for college. But what about Belén? What future is there for girls like her? From debut author Carolina Ixta comes a fierce, intimate examination of friendship, chosen family, and the generational cycles we must break to become our truest selves.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780063287884
Topics
FriendshipComing of ageFamily and identity

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