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Thank you so much for visiting my site! I write books for kids and am represented by Kaitlyn Sanchez  at Bradford Literary Agency .  I worked with my friend Minoru Tonai to write a book, Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp. This book is based closely on Min's and his family's experiences in incarceration camps in the 1940s, including their time in Amache in Colorado. This book is edited by Meredith Mundy, published by Abrams, and illustrated by Chris Sasaki. You can order a copy here ! My son Dakota and I co-wrote a book,  Mamiachi and Me: My Mami's Mariachi Band , published by Abrams Books and illustrated by Mirelle Ortega. You can order a copy AND support an independent bookstore  here --just put a note about how you'd like it personalized in the "checkout comments" part of your order. My daughter Shaian and I co-wrote a book, The Ofrenda That We Built , published by Chronicle Books and illustrated by Gabby Zapata. Yo...

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Jolene GutiƩrrez
Jolene GutiĆ©rrez grew up on a farm, surrounded by animals, plants, and history. She is an award-winning teacher-librarian and has been working with diverse learners at Denver Academy since 1995. She’s a wife of 25+ years and mama to two young adults, three dogs, two cats, and an ever-rotating variety of other animals including a rescue squirrel. Jolene is contributor to If I Could Choose a Best Day: Poems of Possibility (Candlewick 2025) and author of Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp (Abrams 2025), Mamiachi and Me (Abrams 2025), The Ofrenda That We Built (Chronicle 2024), Too Much! An Overwhelming Day (Abrams Appleseed 2023), Bionic Beasts: Saving Animal Lives with Artificial Flippers, Legs, and Beaks (Millbrook/Lerner, 2020), and Mac and Cheese and the Personal Space Invader (Clear Fork/Spork, 2020). Jolene is represented by agent Kaitlyn Sanchez of Bradford Literary Agency. Find her online at www.jolenegutierrez.com or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram @writerjolene.

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