Don't Date Rosa Santos

For fans of Gilmore Girls and To All the Boys I've Loved Before, this effervescent love story from debut author Nina Moreno will sweep you away.

Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea--at least, that's what they say. Dating her is bad news, especially if you're a boy with a boat.

But Rosa feels more caught than cursed. Caught between cultures and choices. Between her abuela, a beloved healer and pillar of their community, and her mother, an artist who crashes in and out of her life like a hurricane. Between Port Coral, the quirky South Florida town they call home, and Cuba, the island her abuela refuses to talk about.

As her college decision looms, Rosa collides--literally--with Alex Aquino, the mysterious boy with tattoos of the ocean whose family owns the marina. With her heart, family, and future on the line, can Rosa break a curse and find her place beyond the horizon?

Author: Nina Moreno
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781368040860
ISBN10: 1368040861
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Romance | Contemporary
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | United States | Hispanic & Latino
- Young Adult Fiction | Coming of Age

About the Author
Nina Moreno is a YA writer whose prose is somewhere between Southern fiction and a telenovela. She graduated from the University of Florida and writes about Latinas chasing their dreams, falling in love, and navigating life in the hyphen. She lives by a swamp outside of Orlando where she enjoys listening to carefully curated playlists, hunting through thrift stores, drinking too much Cuban coffee, and walking into the sea every chance she gets. Don't Date Rosa Santos is her first novel.