Books

NOVELS

• The Chupacabras of the Rio Grande (The Unicorn Rescue Society, #4). Co-authored by Adam Gidwitz. Illustrated by Hatem Aly. (April 2019)
• Lords of the Earth (October 2016)
• GARZA TWINS Series (middle-grade fantasy)
  • The Smoking Mirror (March 2015)—#1. 2016 Pura Belpré Honor Book
  • A Kingdom Beneath the Waves (April 2016)—#2
  • The Hidden City (September 2018)—#3
  • Wings Above the Burning Earth (forthcoming 2022)—#4
  • The World Tree (forthcoming 2024)—#5
• THE PATH (space opera)
  • The Blue-Spangled Blue (March 2021)
  • The Deepest Green (coming July 13, 2021)
  • The Rising Red (coming November 2021)
  • The Swirling Black (coming March 2022)

PICTURE BOOKS

• My Two Border Towns (coming August 24, 2021, from Kokila)

CHAPTER BOOKS

• 13TH STREET Series
  • Battle of the Bad-Breath Bats (July 2020)—#1
  • The Fire-Breathing Ferret Fiasco (July 2020)—#2
  • Clash of the Cackling Cougars (July 2020)—#3
  • The Shocking Shark Showdown (November 2020)—#4
  • Tussle with the Tooting Tarantulas (coming April 2021)—#5
  • Fight with the Freeze-Ray Fowls (coming August 2021)—#6

MYTH AND LEGEND

• Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico (May 2018)—Kirkus Reviews’ Best YA Books of 2018 That Feed Imaginations; 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Young Adult Book
• Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley (September 2016)
• Border Lore: Folktales and Legends of South Texas  (June 2015)
• Creature Feature: 13 Frightening Folktales of the Rio Grande Valley (December 2013)
• Mexican Bestiary (2012)

POETRY

• They Call Me Güero (October 2018)—2019 Walter Dean Myers Honor Book for Outstanding Children’s Literature; 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book; 2019 Claudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry; 2019 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, among other accolades.
• Shattering and Bricolage (June 2014)

GRAPHIC NOVELS

• CLOCKWORK CURANDERA series
  • The Witch Owl Parliament (coming October 2021 from Tu Books)—illustrated by Raúl the Third.
• TALES OF THE FEATHERED SERPENT series
  • Rise of the Halfling King (October 2020)—illustrated by Charlene Bowles. Kirkus Reviews’ Best Middle-Grade Graphic Novels of 2020; the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature (CSMCL) Best Multicultural Children’s Books of 2020

STORY COLLECTIONS

• Chupacabra Vengeance (February 2017)
• Strange Texas Tales That Never Die Volumes 1-4 (October 2014)
• The Seed: Stories from the River’s Edge (2011)

TRANSLATIONS

• El Parlamento de Lechuzas—the Spanish version of my graphic novel The Witch Owl Parliament (coming October 2021)
• El ascenso del rey enano—the Spanish version of my graphic novel Rise of the Halfling King (coming late 2021)
• Mis dos pueblos fronterizos—the Spanish version of my book My Two Border Towns (coming August 24, 2021)
• The Immortal Boy (March 2021)—A translation of No comas renacuajos by Francisco Montaña Ibáñez.
• The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas (February 2021)—A translation of Diccionario de mitos de América by María García Esperón.
• The Route of Ice and Salt (January 2021)—A translation of La ruta del hielo y la sal by José Luis Zárate.
• Me dicen Güero (November 2020)—the Spanish version of my book They Call Me Güero.
• Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (March 2019)—Translations into Nahuatl of Francisco X. Alarcón’s original poems for this 25th anniversary reprint of his seminal collection.
• El verano de las mariposas (July 2018)—A translation of The Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe García McCall.
• Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry (August 2013)—2014 Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation.

BOOKS EDITED BY OR CONTAINING WORK FROM DAVID BOWLES