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If you could travel back in time to when your parents were your age, get to know them before life shaped them into parents, would you want to go? Quetzalcoatl Castillo Anguiano Ceballos Regalado, Queso for short, has to tolerate a lot of jokes about his nickname, but at least people can pronounce it. He is named after his abuelo who, like so many immigrants, gave up his dreams so that future generations could have theirs.
Queso’s dad’s dreams though, were taken by his experiences in the war, and he died young, so when Queso discovers that he has travelled back in time and can get to know his dad before the PTSD, he is ecstatic! With a voice tuned perfectly to a grieving, kind middle-schooler, Cisneros gifts us with another book for our times and our kids.
“NOSTALGIC AND TIMELESS. CISNEROS EXPLORES GRIEF AND COURAGE IN A WAY THAT INVITES YOUNG READERS TO EMBRACE THE PAST WHILE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE."
— Shawn M. Peters, Author of The unforgettable Logan Foster
“AN ODE TO BOOKS AND THEIR HEALING POWER. IT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH, CRY, AND HAVE GOOSEBUMPS SIMULTANEOUSLY."
— Sarah Scheerger, Author of Operation Frog Effect
“ERNESTO CISNEROS IS CHANGING THE WAY MIDDLE-GRADE BOOKS ARE WRITTEN."
— E Train, 13-Year-Old Literacy Advocate,
Podcast Host & The Founder/CEO of E Train Talks.
“A BEAUTIFUL STORY OF FAMILY, LOVE, LOSS, AND DREAMS. THIS IS ANOTHER SURE HIT.”
— Federico Erebia, Lambda Literary Award Winner
“A TENDER SURPRISE, SPRINKLED THROUGHOUT WITH GENTLE HUMOR."
— Padma Venkatraman, Walter Dean Myers Award-winning author of The Bridge Home
“READERS WILL LOVE THIS NUANCED AND DEEPLY SATISFYING STORY."
— Megan E. Freeman, NYT Best Selling Author of Alone
“FUNNY, HEARTFELT AND HOPEFUL, QUESO JUST IN TIME IS THE MODERN-DAY TAKE ON BACK TO THE FUTURE THAT WE ALL NEED."
— Rajani LaRocca, Newbery Honor-winning author of Red, White, and Whole
“QUESO REMINDS US THAT WE ALL DESERVE TO HAVE OUR STORIES TOLD AND THAT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE THE BOOKS THEY NEED.”
— Lisa Moore Ramee, Author of A Good Kind of Trouble
