This California author got his BA at University of the Pacific on a full basketball scholarship. He combined his passions for his Mexican heritage and sports in his 2008 young adult novel, Mexican White Boy, which was banned from classrooms in Tuscon AZ in 2012 because it mentioned "critical race theory." But a court later ruled that this ban violated the rights of Mexican American students. He won the 2016 Newbery Medal for his picture book about a boy and his grandmother's trip through the city on a bus. He currently teaches creative writing at San Diego State University, and his most recent picture book is Milo Imagines the World. This is Matt de la Pena.
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