From the Publisher
A joyful novel with a pick-your-path vibe. Both lighthearted and deeply moving.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“This funny, brave, charming novel is packed full of delights.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A beautiful story of friendship, love, family and finding yourself that made me laugh and cry from start to finish. This book will make you wish that you, too, had a witty xoloitzcuintli to take you on the greatest adventure of your life.” — Maulik Pancholy, Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best At It
“So funny, the pages practically turn themselves. This time-bendy, big-hearted story asks all the important questions middle-schoolers have about identity, culture, orientation, and managing anxiety, and addresses them with equal parts kindness, heft, and hilarity.” — Carlos Hernandez, author of Sal & Gabi Break the Universe
“A funny and unexpected twist on the time loop novel with moving and memorable results.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
Praise for The Insiders: “Sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating, but always full of heart, The Insiders carves out a space for us all to be our true selves.” — Kwame Mbalia, New York Times bestselling author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
“The story about finding your place and your people that I wish I’d had as a kid. Héctor has my whole heart and I want to hug him and keep him close, but he belongs out in the world where he can inspire readers to honor themselves." — New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera
“A classic in the making.” — Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles
“Oshiro’s intersectional saga conveys a strong message about letting go of secrets and, with help from loved ones, reclaiming space.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Carlos Hernandez
So funny, the pages practically turn themselves. This time-bendy, big-hearted story asks all the important questions middle-schoolers have about identity, culture, orientation, and managing anxiety, and addresses them with equal parts kindness, heft, and hilarity.
Dhonielle Clayton
A classic in the making.
New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera
The story about finding your place and your people that I wish I’d had as a kid. Héctor has my whole heart and I want to hug him and keep him close, but he belongs out in the world where he can inspire readers to honor themselves."
Maulik Pancholy
"A beautiful story of friendship, love, family and finding yourself that made me laugh and cry from start to finish. This book will make you wish that you, too, had a witty xoloitzcuintli to take you on the greatest adventure of your life.
Kwame Mbalia
Praise for The Insiders: “Sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating, but always full of heart, The Insiders carves out a space for us all to be our true selves.
Kirkus Reviews
★ 2022-06-22
David Bravo is having the worst day ever when a time-traveling dog shows up and offers him a chance to do it all over.
Tuesday, Sept. 12, truly takes the cake as the most awful day of 11-year-old David’s entire life. It starts with him anxiously fumbling through his first middle school presentation about his heritage: He has a Brazilian and Mexican American father and a Japanese American mother from Hawaii, and he has difficulty explaining that he is adopted. This is followed by an embarrassing food-poisoning incident that ends with David’s causing an accident that hurts his best friend Antoine’s ankle during cross-country practice. His wish to redo everything is granted by the arrival of Fea, a talking, shape-shifting dog who says her new mission is to help David repair his timestream. His first thought is to fix things for Antoine, worried their friendship may be on the line, but when that doesn’t help, David and Fea end up going back and forth in time trying to make things right. This funny, brave, charming novel is packed full of delights. The plot goes to utterly unexpected and beautiful places in a journey about heritage, culture, choice, and, above all, love and connection. David learns to navigate the many aspects of his identity—his anxiety, his budding romantic feelings for Antoine, and his background as a Latinx by birth—and brings the entire well-developed, diverse cast of characters together while doing so.
A joyful, surprising, time-traveling delight. (Fantasy. 8-12)