Guava and Grudges
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Publisher Description
"Filled with decadent descriptions of food,bittersweet rivalries, and zesty romantic tension, Guava and Grudges will have you hungry for more from Alexis Castellanos. A deliciously sweet read!" -Ashley Poston, New York Times best-selling author of The Dead Romantics, The Seven Year Slip, and A Novel Love Story
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow meets Tweet Cute in this YA romcom about two teens from rival Cuban bakeries who create a recipe for disaster when they start to fall for each other.
Ana Maria Ybarra dreams of becoming a pastry chef. She loves developing new and exciting Cuban-fusion treats in her family's bakery, but her dad refuses to change the menu created by her abuelo decades ago-meanwhile, the rival bakery across the street, Morales Bakery, is thriving with their Instagram-famous desserts.
Ana Maria's only hope to change her dad's mind and save up for culinary school is winning a recipe competition with a social media angle. But then the ultimate distraction shows up in her small town: Miguel, a boy she spent one magical day with six months ago, and who she never thought she'd see again. Ana Maria thinks maybe fate has brought them together again-until she learns the horrible truth. Miguel is a Morales.
An Ybarra cannot be associated with a Morales, let alone fall for one. But when she finds out Miguel is behind the Moraleses' viral success and he offers to help her with the competition, she is so desperate to win she can't turn him down. All she needs to do is keep Miguel at arm's length and make sure their families don't find out. After all, teaming up with Miguel is just business and nothing more…right?
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While on a college tour in L.A., 17-year-old Cuban American Ana Maria Ybarra meets fellow foodie and amateur photographer Miguel Fuentes. She's shocked to run into him again when she returns to her hometown of Port Murphy, Wash. But their budding friendship is immediately waylaid by the fact that Miguel is related to the Morales family, the owners of Ana's family's rival bakery. Though Ana has dreams of attending pastry school in Paris, her family's business is struggling, and she knows her parents can't afford to send her. So she endeavors to win a culinary scholarship and works to develop a recipe for an upcoming contest. Lacking the skills (and funds) to produce professional-looking photos of her creations, she turns to Miguel, but their partnership must remain secret or else Ana's father will be outraged. When she starts developing feelings for Miguel, however, things get even more complicated. Graphic novelist Castellanos (Isla to Island) gives the family feud trope a sweet twist in her fiction debut, which sensitively explores topics such as Latinx identity, teenage drinking, financial instability, and finding the courage to advocate for oneself. Ages 12–up.
