Lupe and Selina Play Through the Storm

Teens

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Synopsis

Selina Andrade has the swing to go pro—if her world doesn’t fall apart first.

In the stormy heart of Monterrey, Mexico, Selina’s dreams reach beyond the shadow of her brother’s baseball legacy. She wants a future in softball, one she might actually control. When she’s recruited by Coach Lupe to play on a U.S. team, it feels like everything she’s ever wanted is finally within reach.

But ambition isn’t enough when you’re caught between cultures, secrets, and pressure from every side—family, tradition, even love. Coach Lupe is fighting her own ghosts, determined not to let another girl slip through the cracks.

As past traumas and present tensions rise, Selina and Lupe must confront what it means to lead, to sacrifice, and to believe in something bigger than themselves.

Two generations. One game. Can they play through the storm before it tears everything apart?

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Author Biography

Dr. Perez Ferguson is a cross-cultural educator and consultant. Her fiction brings to life the voices of California inhabitants living 200 years ago. She has twice won the Best YA Fiction Award from the San Francisco Writers Conference, 2021 and 2022.

Regarding Broken Promises:

"The tightly wound plot flows effortlessly from one moment to the next.... readers will find themselves inspired by the future Sparrow creates for herself and those around her." — Kirkus Reviews

Her non-fiction promotes the voices of under-represented communities in the twenty-first century. This earned her the 2014 Lacayo Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute. She is an Advisor and Former Chair for the InterAmerican Foundation and a former Visiting Lecturer for the Council for Independent Colleges. She enjoys living and writing on the Pacific coast.

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Author Insight

Sisters & Brothers

NEW FLASH! Sisters and brothers do not always get along. This is not guaranteed to improve when you grow up. In this excerpt from Lupe & Selina Play Through the Storm, Lupe a single woman working fulltime, secured a bank loan for her widowed mother's home improvement. Her brother, unemployed, married, with a son, promises to help, in the future. Family issues, sports, friendships and love are all part of this trilogy, Lupe Throws Like a Girl. I hope you enjoy it. Buy it here at Bublish.com or at other major outlets. I also invite you to join me each week to learn about other Latinx authors and their stories at https://anitaperezferguson.substack.com DIVERSE VOICES - BRAVO!

Book Excerpt

Lupe and Selina Play Through the Storm

Sunday family dinners continued through the summer at Mama’s house. Each week, Lupe saw the progress being made on the home improvement project. It’s possible she worried too much. She’d completed her role in securing the loan and was unfamiliar with construction. Why did trusting her brother present such a challenge? David had a wife and a son. Wouldn’t he be responsible?

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Anita Perez Ferguson

Lupe and Selina Play Through the Storm

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Sisters & Brothers

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Lupe and Selina Play Through the Storm

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