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
  • The Smoking Mirror (March 2015)—GT #1. 2016 Pura Belpré Honor Book
  • A Kingdom Beneath the Waves (April 2016)—GT #2
  • The Hidden City (September 2018)—GT #3
  • Wings Above the Burning Earth (forthcoming 2021)—GT #4
  • The World Tree (forthcoming 2023)—GT #5

PICTURE BOOKS

• My Two Border Towns (summer 2021)

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 (April 2021)—#5

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.
• Shattering and Bricolage (June 2014)

GRAPHIC NOVELS

• CLOCKWORK CURANDERA series
  • The Witch Owl Parliament (March 2021)—illustrated by Raúl the Third.
• TALES OF THE FEATHERED SERPENT series
  • Rise of the Halfling King (September 2020)—illustrated by Charlene Bowles.

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)—with Angélica Maldonado

TRANSLATIONS

• The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas (coming in 2021 from Levine Querido—A translation of Diccionario de mitos de América by María García Esperón.
• Me dicen Güero—A translation of my book They Call Me Güero (coming November 10, 2020, from Vintage Español).
• The Road of Ice and Salt (coming August 2020 from Innsmouth Free Press)—A translation of La ruta del hielo y la sal by José Luis Zárate.
• 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

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