Books by Denise Vega and Complete Book Reviews

Denise Vega, Author . Little, Brown $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-98560-4
Like The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez (reviewed below), Vega's first novel centers on a middle-school narrator whose secret blog is made public. But this is not the first thing that happens to Erin Swift: First, she gets put on a different...
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Denise Vega, Author Little, Brown Young Readers $16.99 (280p) ISBN 978-0-316-03448-7
After surviving the ""Year of Humiliating Events (YOHE)"" in Click Here (To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade), Erin Swift, Web site-designer extraordinaire, is ready to make a fresh start. But in eighth grade, she faces a new set of boy...
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Denise Vega. Little, Brown, $17.99 (296p) ISBN 978-0-316-13310-4
Ori used to idolize his older brother, Del, but Del has dropped out of college and is back at home making Ori’s sophomore year hell. Now Ori never knows when his brother will turn on him, mocking his dreams of becoming a rock star. Those dreams are...
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Denise Vega, illus. by Zachariah OHora. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-553-49655-0
Vega’s spoof of parenting manuals stars a girl in pink pajamas and her monster, a yeti-style hulk with sherbet-striped fur. When it comes to monster bedtimes, “Don’t ask your parents to help you,” the narrator cautions. “They know a lot about...
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Denise Vega, Author, Erin Eitter Kono, Illustrator , illus. by Erin Eitter Kono. Little, Brown $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-10663-4
In this paean to grandmotherly love, presented in a repeating question and answer format, a girl perceives her grandmother’s physical aging as a gift from the angels, and wonders whether she will always be with her. The impish-looking white-hai
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Denise Vega, illus. by Erika Rodriguez Medina. Charlesbridge, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-6235-4444-7
Adela loves everything about her family’s mariachi band (“how the music skips and bounces.... how her family dances and claps”)—except “the fact that she isn’t in it.” But her early attempts at playing various instruments and joining the dancers...
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