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Furia
Book · 2020
Furia
13+Best for tweens & teens★ 4.1
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Camila Hassan plays for a club in Rosario, Argentina, and hides it from a father who would stop her. She is chasing a scholarship to the United States while her brother becomes a star and a boy she has always known comes home famous.
Why we picked it
It is the best novel about a girl whose talent is inconvenient to everyone around her, and it won the Pura Belpré for exactly that.
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