Aya De León
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COMING 2022
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UNDERCOVER LATINA...
Andréa Gutierrez-Baldoquín has always been homeschooled, because her family works for an international spy organization. At fourteen it's time for her first solo mission. She presses her hair straight and changes her name to Andrea Burke, ANN-dree-yuh, the mispronunciation she’s always had to correct.
Now she’ll have to face high school for the first time, deflecting mean girls, slogging through cafeteria food, and trying not to get distracted by the cute Latino boy. Although she's Puerto Rican and Mexican, she'll be undercover as a gringa, because her mission is to befriend the geeky estranged son of a white nationalist. Her organization has intel that the father is planning an act of terrorism but they don’t know the target. Andréa's assignment requires a deep dive into the son’s interests: comic books and gaming. She'll need to add everything she learns about superheroes to her extensive training in order to outwit the terrorist and stop the attack. . . all while remembering not to blow her family's cover by speaking Spanish.
GOODREADS LINK TO COME!
Andréa Gutierrez-Baldoquín has always been homeschooled, because her family works for an international spy organization. At fourteen it's time for her first solo mission. She presses her hair straight and changes her name to Andrea Burke, ANN-dree-yuh, the mispronunciation she’s always had to correct.
Now she’ll have to face high school for the first time, deflecting mean girls, slogging through cafeteria food, and trying not to get distracted by the cute Latino boy. Although she's Puerto Rican and Mexican, she'll be undercover as a gringa, because her mission is to befriend the geeky estranged son of a white nationalist. Her organization has intel that the father is planning an act of terrorism but they don’t know the target. Andréa's assignment requires a deep dive into the son’s interests: comic books and gaming. She'll need to add everything she learns about superheroes to her extensive training in order to outwit the terrorist and stop the attack. . . all while remembering not to blow her family's cover by speaking Spanish.
GOODREADS LINK TO COME!
ABOUT AYA...
Aya de León teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. In spring 2021, she was a visiting professor in the graduate creative writing program at the University of San Francisco. Kensington Books publishes her award-winning feminist heist series, which includes SIDE CHICK NATION, the first novel published about Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. In December 2020 Kensington published her first standalone novel, A SPY IN THE STRUGGLE, about FBI infiltration of an organization fighting for climate justice and Black Lives. In December, Kensington will publish QUEEN OF URBAN PROPHECY, about women in hip hop, police violence, and the climate crisis. Her work has also appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Ebony, Guernica, Writers Digest, Bitch Magazine, VICE, The Root, and on Def Poetry. In 2022, Candlewick Press will publish UNDERCOVER LATINA, the first in a Black/Latina spy girl series for teens. She is currently working on a memoir of her body that explores the intersection of food, body, race, gender, health, US foreign and domestic policy, and the climate crisis. Finally, her Justice Hustlers series has been optioned for television, and she is currently working on the pilot.
Visit her online at ayadeleon.com, on Twitter at @AyadeLeon or on Facebook or Instagram at ayadeleonwrites.
Aya de León teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. In spring 2021, she was a visiting professor in the graduate creative writing program at the University of San Francisco. Kensington Books publishes her award-winning feminist heist series, which includes SIDE CHICK NATION, the first novel published about Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. In December 2020 Kensington published her first standalone novel, A SPY IN THE STRUGGLE, about FBI infiltration of an organization fighting for climate justice and Black Lives. In December, Kensington will publish QUEEN OF URBAN PROPHECY, about women in hip hop, police violence, and the climate crisis. Her work has also appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Ebony, Guernica, Writers Digest, Bitch Magazine, VICE, The Root, and on Def Poetry. In 2022, Candlewick Press will publish UNDERCOVER LATINA, the first in a Black/Latina spy girl series for teens. She is currently working on a memoir of her body that explores the intersection of food, body, race, gender, health, US foreign and domestic policy, and the climate crisis. Finally, her Justice Hustlers series has been optioned for television, and she is currently working on the pilot.
Visit her online at ayadeleon.com, on Twitter at @AyadeLeon or on Facebook or Instagram at ayadeleonwrites.