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Zeke Peña

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Zeke Peña is a Xicano storyteller and professional doodler from El Paso, TX, the Sun City. Sundust, his author-illustrator debut is a love poem to desert culture and people. Zeke received the Ezra Jack Keats and the Pura Belpré Illustration Honors for My Papi Has a Motorcycle; and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for his illustrations in Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. He also illustrated the NY Times Best-Selling Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel,. He is currently drawing more books in his tiny studio in NW Arkansas.

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My Papi Has a Motorcycle

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Sundust by Zeke Peña
"What is this? I'm still working on that, but I am sure it's more than what the blurb implies.

It's a fable, with one obvious moral... and others subtle that each of us readers will bring to it. It's speculative fiction, grounded in a reality that's c" Read more of this review »
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Star Wars: Rebel Rising
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This is one of my favorite Star Wars books. It follows the complicated life on Jyn Erso (daughter of Lyra and Galen Erso). She has an amazing character arch and exemplifies resilience of folks who join the rebellion. Her role in the Rebellion is extr ...more
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Star Wars by James Luceno
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This is one of my favorite story lines in Star Wars Universe. It humanizes the big entities we know as the Light side and Dark side. It complicates it in a great way. This book follows Galen Erso, Lyra Erso, and Orsen Krennic from their schooling int ...more
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Star Wars: Rebel Rising
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This is one of my favorite Star Wars books. It follows the complicated life on Jyn Erso (daughter of Lyra and Galen Erso). She has an amazing character arch and exemplifies resilience of folks who join the rebellion. Her role in the Rebellion is extr ...more
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Star Wars by James Luceno
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This is one of my favorite story lines in Star Wars Universe. It humanizes the big entities we know as the Light side and Dark side. It complicates it in a great way. This book follows Galen Erso, Lyra Erso, and Orsen Krennic from their schooling int ...more
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This is one of my favorite story lines in Star Wars Universe. It humanizes the big entities we know as the Light side and Dark side. It complicates it in a great way. This book follows Galen Erso, Lyra Erso, and Orsen Krennic from their schooling int ...more
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Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton
Shh! We Have a Plan
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This book is amazing. My son engages with it on a high level and loves every page turn. It's masterfully crafted. ...more
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