Chronically Dolores
$23.64
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2025
Summary
Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores’s story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair. Now in paperback!
Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn’t life threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life.
Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780147512550 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0147512557 |
| Author: | Maya Van Wagenen |
| Publisher: | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
| Imprint: | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 140mm x 210mm |
| Audience Age: | 12 |
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Praise for Chronically Dolores
Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award, for excellence in portraying the disability experience!
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
A NYPL Best Book of the Year
“Van Wagenen’s fiction debut is a standout with both wide appeal and important, specific representation bolstered by the author’s own life.” —Booklist, starred review
“Compassionate prose conveys the protagonists’ experiences with care and thoughtful, complex characterizations approachably highlight life’s ambiguity.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“An insightful, funny, and realistic coming-of-age story.” —Kirkus
Praise for Maya Van Wagenen’s Popular
YALSA Award Winner for Excellence in Nonfiction
New York Times Bestseller
“I was inspired by her journey…. Maybe if I had read Popular when I was [Van Wagenen’s] age, it could have saved me from a world of hurt, or at least put that world in perspective.” —Maude Apatow for the New York Times Book Review
“Everyone’s happiness project looks different, and I was utterly charmed by Maya Van Wagenen’s honest, funny, and thought-provoking account of her efforts to become ‘popular.’” —Gretchen Rubin, #1 bestselling author of The Happiness Project
Maya Van Wagenen
Maya Van Wagenen is fifteen years old. When she was eleven, her family moved to Brownsville, Texas, the setting of Popular. When not hunched over a desktop writing, Maya enjoys reading, British television and chocolate. She now lives with her parents and two siblings in rural Georgia. She is a sophomore in high school but still shares a room with her sixth-grade brother. Remarkably, they have not yet killed each other.
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