Shut up, this is serious / Carolina Ixta.

Title:

ISBN:

9780063287860

Personal Author:

Ixta, Carolina

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.

Physical Description:

349 pages ; 22 cm

Awards Note:

Winner of the Pura Belpre Award (Young adult author / 2025)

Summary:

Belen 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.

Geographic Term:

Oakland (Calif.) -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Hispanic Americans -- Fiction

Families -- Fiction

High school students -- Fiction

Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction

Depression, Mental -- Fiction

Young women -- Fiction

Genre:

Bildungsromans

Social problem fiction