Donna Barba Higuera

From New York Times bestselling author Donna Barba Higuera, Firesnake delivers a triumphant finale to the story that began with the Newbery Medal–winning The Last Cuentista and continued in the Pura Belpré Honor–winning Alebrijes. Itzel has never known a life on Earth. Growing up on Sagan...

Ramón is a little boy who can’t sleep. He is nervous for his first day at a new school. And El Cucuy is the monster who lives in Ramón’s cactus pot. He can’t sleep, either. It turns out that El Cucuy is scared, too! This gentle, perceptive story explores the worries that can accompany...

The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning The Last Cuentista This is the story as it was told to me by Leandro the Mighty For over 400 years, the world has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence...

Petra Peña gehört zu den wenigen, die es vor dem unausweichlichen Weltuntergang auf eines der rettenden Schiffe schaffen. Eine Reise ins Ungewisse...

Había una vez … Una niña llamada Petra Peña que no quería otra cosa que ser cuentista, como su abuelita. Pero el mundo de Petra está llegando a su fin. La Tierra ha sido destruida por un cometa, y solounos pocos científicos y sus hijos—entre ellos, Petra y su familia—han sido...

My gym shorts burrow into my butt crack like a frightened groundhog. Don't you want to listen to a book that starts like that? Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy...like expanding the options for...

La segunda e impresionante novela de Donna Barba Higuera, autora de La última cuentista, ganadora de los premios Newbery y Pura BelpréHe aquí la historia, tal como me la contó Leandro el poderoso. Por más de 400 años, el mundo ha sido un sinfín de tierras baldías. Los pocos seres humanos...