Hello friends!
The Colored Pages Team is super excited to announce the confirmed schedule for the Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez book tour!!
Thank you to everyone that signed up and helped spread the word to ensure we find as many Own Voice and international readers as possible. There were so many people interested and we got more so many responses, which makes us super happy.
Be sure to check our hosts’ posts and visit the different stops we will have during the tour week and help promote the release of Furia.
Featured Book
Publication date: September 15th, 2020
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 368
Genre: Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary
Diversity tags: own-voices, Argentinian
Buy: Amazon| Goodreads | Book Depository
A powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams.
In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life.
At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father.
On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university.
But the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her.
Filled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance, and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own.
Featured Voice
Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine-American who loves meteor showers, summer, astrology, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids, two adorable dogs, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing for Children’s and Young Adult program. She’s a PB, MG, and YA author. Yamile is also part of Las Musas, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx MG and YA authors. She’s represented by Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker Literary.
Schedule
September 9th
Pastelwriter – Review Only
Books & Dice – Favorite Quotes
September 10th
The Bookish Skies – Playlist
Sasha and Amber Read – Review Only
Toffi Lady Reader – Favorite Quotes
Faydriel Reads – Reading vlog
September 12th
The Book View – Moodboard
Iris Book List – Review
Bookrokosmos – Reading vlog
September 13th
Too Much Miya – Favorite Quotes
Mel Reads – Review Only
Landscape Pages – Review Only
September 14th
Bookzandcookies – Book review
Nature Mama Reads – Review Only
Colorfully Bookish – Mood Board
September 15th (Release Day)
A Bronx Latina Reads – Review Only
Bookishly Kenia – Instagram Feature Post
Book Dragon 217 – Review Only
Remember to check out the amazing posts of our host during the tour!
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