Ella Cerón

A delicious and delightful debut that is JOY-FOCUSED DIVERSITY, about a Mexican-American teenager who is excellent at school and terrible at romance. This SPARKLING DEBUT TEEN ROMANCE has the modern-teen-romance specificity of EMERGENCY CONTACT by Mary HK Choi and the immersive family dynamics of TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, plus a whole lot of kissing!

For ESCAPIST FUN, forget Emily in Paris, meet Lola in Mexico City! Mexico City is the most populous city in North America, but rarely depicted in English language children's literature. As Lola spends the summer, we get to follow her experience of getting to know this UNFORGETTABLE REAL WORLD SETTING-from the canals of Xochimilco to the brujeria stalls at Mercado Senora, Lola experiences it all-with her very cute crush as a guide.

While we're exploring Mexico City, Lola is also getting an education on brujeria. There is the matter of that NO-KISS CURSE! The author, Ella Ceron, is doing significant research into the various types of brujeria and the reader gets to learn about this spiritual practice with the respect it deserves as Lola investigates ways to break the curse. After all, all romance should have A LITTLE BIT OF MAGIC!

This is a DEBUT BY JOURNALIST Ella Cerón, who is an incredible talent with a strong (and growing) social following, with by-lines in Teen Vogue, the Washington Post, Refinery 29, and many others.