The First Rule of Punk
by Celia C. Perez
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · grades 3–7 · 720L · 1 pages · 2017
Why we'd hand it over
The rare middle-grade novel that treats cultural identity and artistic self-expression as equally serious — Malu's punk band and her Mexican-American family feel like the full complexity of growing up, not competing agendas.