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PRESS RELEASE   Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Book Club Launches First Annual 2015 Summer Reading List “Connecting Latinos all over the world through Literature” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:   Maria Ferrer Media Relations Coordinator mferrer.lcbookclub@gmail.com www.latinolit.com Twitter:   @ReadLatinoLit Facebook: LasComadres June 21, 2015; Austin, TX— Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club announces its first annual Summer Reading List to launch on Sunday, June 21, 2015, the first official day of Summer. “We are launching a Summer Reading List,” said Edith Milagros Reyes, Book Club Project Manager, "to complement our monthly Book Club meetings and Teleconferences.   Plus, it's in line with our mission to promote the work of Latina/o authors.” The Book Club’s Summer Reading List has something for everyone.   It’s comprised of five fiction books, three young adult books, three memoi...

    Congratulations to Marjorie Agosin and Yuyi Morales on being named 2015 Pura Belpré Award Winners.  Felicidades!   2015 Author Award Winner   I LIVED ON BUTTERLY HILL, written by Marjorie Agosín, illustrated by Lee White and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division. 2015 Illustrator Award Winner VIVA FRIDA , illustrated and written by Yuyi Morales and published by Roaring Brook Press, a Neal Porter Book. by Marjorie Agosin, Atheneum Books by Yuyi Morales, Roaring Brook Press The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. It is co-sponsored by the ...