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Furia
The Reese's YA Book Club pick and 2021 Pura Belpré Award-winning, powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line – even her blooming love story – to follow her dreams.
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Furia is a REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK and the recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal. It's featured as one of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020 and a Best Book of the Year by Cosmopolitan, Kirkus Reviews, SheReads, and the New York Public Library.
An engrossing #OwnVoices novel, as PopSugar notes, this book will set your dreams on fire... It's fabulous, according to Reese Witherspoon.
This powerful contemporary YA, perfect for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, is set in Argentina. It follows a rising soccer star who must risk everything, 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 transforms into La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent.
When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see how far her talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she'd earn 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.
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.
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Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez is lauded as a powerful feminist narrative that intertwines passion for sports with personal and societal struggles. Set against a backdrop of cultural and patriarchal challenges, the story follows a young woman's journey to assert her ambitions and identity in a deeply relatable and empowering manner. Critics highlight its rich cultural specifics, engaging first-person perspective, and dynamic energy that resonates with readers who appreciate complex, own-voice tales.
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ISBN: 9781643751894
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 February 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Algonquin Young Readers
Audience: Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 208.0mm
Weight: 332g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Mendez is a futbol-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 a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Mendez is also part of Las Musas, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx middle-grade and young adult authors. Furia is her first novel for young adult readers.
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