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Anna Lapera

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Anna Lapera is a writer and educator based in the DC area. She comes from a Guatemalan mother and Hawaiian-Filipino-German father, and was raised all over the world.

She teaches by day and writes stories about girls stepping into their power in the early hours of the morning before the teaching day begins. She is a member of Las Musas, a 2022 Macondista and Kweli Journal mentee, and has received financial support from Tin House, Kweli Journal and SCBWI.

When she’s not writing or teaching, you can find her visiting trails and coffee shops in DC and Maryland, where she lives with her family.

Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice is her debut novel, and she’s currently working on a historical fiction young adult novel as well as a short story co
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4.08 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions
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A Strange Thing Happened at Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga (write-in)
 
  21 votes 18.9%

 
  18 votes 16.2%

 
  17 votes 15.3%

 
  11 votes 9.9%

 
  9 votes 8.1%

Buffalo Dreams by Violet Duncan (write-in)
 
  8 votes 7.2%

Tree. Table. Book. by Lois Lowry (write-in)
 
  7 votes 6.3%

 
  6 votes 5.4%

The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon (write-in)
 
  5 votes 4.5%

Not Nothing by Gayle Forman (write-in)
 
  4 votes 3.6%

Shackled: A Tale... by Candy J. Cooper (write-in)
 
  2 votes 1.8%

The Secret Library (write-in)
 
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