Today we celebrate the book birthday of to learn all about the inspiration behind this book. But first, a little bit about the book: Sing it Like Celia is about a twelve-year-old girl named Salvadora Sanchez (Salva for short) whose life is turned upside down one day when her mother disappears without explanation. She winds up living with her long-absent investigative journalist father in a camper van while he travels to a campground in Northern California to work on a story about a woman who has been separated from her own children and is facing deportation. While navigatin ..read more

If you love to cheer for budding activists and to laugh at on-the-nail humor, read ! I blew through this book in two days, carried by funny lines like “with the stealth of a rhinoceros” and suspense about how Lupe’s efforts to change her world would turn out. If you’re looking for Lupe, try the principal’s office. She spends a lot of time in there, but for the reason you’re thinking. Sassy, athletic Lupe jumps at any chance to bring justice to her corner of the world. Whether it’s the unfair dress code or the narrow choices offered on forms for reporting one’s race, she’s your girl! So it’s na ..read more

Las Musas is thrilled to announce the cover reveal of But first, a little about Ingrid and Winnie Lopez have lived there for eight years, but a new family is moving in, and the Lopez girls are determined to combine Ingrid’s comedic timing and Winnie’s quick thinking to give the new First Kids a proper White House welcome. Skylar and Zora know a lot of things about the White House—Zora loves history, and Skylar’s thrilled to begin her new A-list lifestyle. What the sisters don’t know is that incoming presidents’ families are often pranked by the folks they’re replacing, and Ingrid and Winnie ta ..read more

We are excited to share the stunning cover for  Martha Riva Palacio Obón's award-winning middle-grade novel about family, grief, and the sea.  Bloomsbury Children's Books, will be released on October 24, 2023.  But first, a little bit about the book: The only good thing about Sofia's mom sending her to live with her abuela is that finally Sofia and the sea will meet face-to-face. The sea has always called to Sofia. That's how she knows she’s a mermaid—that, and the fact that the ocean and its creatures are much easier to understand than people. Sofia longs to meet another mermai ..read more

Today on the blog, we're here with an interview between Musa  When new classmates Mattie and Mercedes meet and realize they have the same Colombian dad, the two team up in a Parent Trap–inspired misadventure to meet him for the first time in this sharp and poignant middle grade novel about the bonds that make a family ..read more

Join us in celebrating THE ENCHANTED LIFE OF VALENTINA MEJIA book birthday! We sat down with debut Musa Alexandra Alessandri to learn all about the inspiration behind this book.  But first, a little bit about The Enchanted Life of Valentina Mejía: Twelve-year-old Valentina wants to focus on drawing the real world around her and hopefully get into art school in Bogotá one day, but Papi has spent his life studying Colombia’s legendary creatures and searching for proof of their existence. So when Papi hears that a patasola—a vampire woman with one leg—has been sighted in the A ..read more

Join us in celebrating WINGS IN THE WILD book birthday!  ​We sat down with award-winning Musa Margarita Engle to learn all about the inspiration behind this book.  But first, a little bit about Wings in the Wild, this inspiring  romantic contemporary novel-in-verse  that tells the story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights: Winged beings are meant to be free. And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn’t meet their approval. Soleida and her parents protest this injustice with their secret sculpture garden of cha ..read more

Join us in celebrating THE GHOSTS OF RANCHO ESPANTO book birthday! We sat down with Musa Adrianna Cuevas to learn all about the inspiration behind this book. But first, a little bit about this middle grade novel: Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father’s increasing restrictions and his mother’s fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never could’ve imagined―a month working on a ranch ..read more

Happy Book Birthday to Salsa Magic! ​Today we celebrate the book birthday of We sat down with Musa Letisha Marrero to learn all about the inspiration behind her book. But first, a little bit about this book: ​This middle-grade novel tells the story of 13-year-old Maya Beatriz Calderon Montenegro, whose loud but loving family runs the bustling Cafe Taza in Brooklyn. Maya has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her and sees a strange woman. Chaos ensues when an estranged great aunt from Puerto Rico shows up on their doorstep–and she turns out to be the woman from Maya’s drea ..read more

Today we’re thrilled to reveal the cover for Alexandra Alessandri’s new middle grade novel, , which releases on July 23, 2024 from Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. is a funny, relatable middle school drama about two Colombian American girls who have always been BFFs—until sixth grade turns everything upside down. Luchy Zapata is starting sixth grade, and she’s excited. She and her two best friends, Cami and Mateo, will finally be at the same school. Luchy and Mateo will be in art class together, and she and Cami can try out for the same soccer team! As long ..read more