The Last Tamale -- Orlando Mendiola, Hardcover

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The Last Tamale -- Orlando Mendiola, Hardcover*A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection* Three kids compete in an epic battle for the last tamale at their family's annual tamalada in this vibrant picture book by debut author Orlando Mendiola and celebrated illustrator Teresa Martinez. It's the best day of the year tamale day. Luis and his family have been making and eating tamales all day. But when Luis, Jacob, and Letty all want the last tamale, there's only one way to choose a winner A

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION In inimitable style

And with every passing town

and altogether life-affirming gem of a book

and West Africa

" --Kristin Kobes Du Mez

believing he would never again be fit for service

but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood

Blond Sharon is going through a divorce

What she doesn't need is this stubborn farmer's attitude and his pathological need to avoid her

But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake

a severity as merciful as love

"Pitch perfect