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Born in Brooklyn, NY; married; children: two daughters.
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MEMBER:Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
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Contributor of column to Red Hook Star Review, beginning 2010.
SIDELIGHTS
A born-and-raised New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, Danette [open new]Vigilante has written several novels for middle graders replete with gritty inner-city drama. Speaking with Teresa Dovalpage of Latino Stories, Vigilante noted that she has two major sources of motivation as she writes for young audiences. She explained: “I always strive to get across to my readers that no matter how old they are or their circumstances they can make a positive difference in the world. Big or small, their actions take on a life of their own and can reach far beyond what they’d expect. It’s also important to me that every child sees themselves inside a book.” She makes sure to include characters who are Puerto Rican–having seen too few people like herself in books she read during her own youth–as well as other ethnicities.[suspend new]
Vigilante sets her middle-grade novel The Trouble with Half a Moon in the same Brooklyn neighborhood where she grew up. In the story, thirteen-year-old Dellie is distraught when her younger brother Louis is killed during a car accident, and his death makes living in her high-crime urban neighborhood that much harder. Although her working-class Puerto Rican parents attempt to make the best of things, her mom becomes overprotective and now curtails Dellie’s activities when she is not in school. Although she understands her mother’s grief, the teen begins to feel overwhelmed by the unfairness of life when a single mom moves into the downstairs apartment in their public-housing complex and makes no effort to hide her abusive relationship with her boyfriend. When the woman’s son, five-year-old Corey, turns to Dellie for affection, guilt over Louis’s death inspires the teen to become the boy’s protector. Meanwhile, her relationship with Kayla, Dellie’s best friend, starts to unravel and a cute boy named Michael seems intent on spending time with her.
Praising Vigilante for imbuing her fiction debut with a “realistic sense of the diverse neighborhood community” in which she sets her story, Hazel Rochman added in her Booklist review of The Trouble with Half a Moon that Dellie’s “grief, anger, and heartbreaking coming-to-terms are realistic.” The author’s use of a “first-person, present-tense narration allows readers to feel Dellie’s pain and confusion,” asserted a Kirkus Reviews writer, and in School Library Journal Cheryl Ashton predicted of Vigilante’s novel that “Dellie’s story will speak to young people who’ve needed a little faith to get them through tough times.”
[resume new]Vigilante’s next novel is Saving Baby Doe. Thirteen-year-old Lionel Perez and his best friend Anisa Torres expect a simple thrill when they sneak onto a construction site, but then they find an abandoned baby in a Port-a-Potty. Trying to do the right thing by alerting authorities, they end up bringing undue suspicion on themselves: Anisa has to suffer the indignity of a physical exam, and Lionel gets sentenced to piano lessons. When he fears that the baby will be left with no father—his own being out of the picture—Lionel starts scheming to kidnap the baby from the hospital and provide for her with funds accrued via drug dealing with shady fellow teens. He eventually meets the baby’s real mother and must decide whether or not to spill the beans.
In School Library Journal, Lalitha Nataraj praised Saving Baby Doe as “appealing for its colorful mix of strong characters and rich descriptions of Puerto Rican culture.” She feared, however, that the narrative is weakened by a “disjointed” plot, digressive drama, and uneven attention to the themes of drug use and teen sexuality. A Kirkus Reviews writer had related reservations about “characters whose decisions may leave readers confused,” but Horn Book reviewer Susan Dove Lempke affirmed that Vigilante’s “finely tuned depiction of Lionel’s … jumbled feelings, which sometimes lead to his making poor choices, is both believable and engaging.” The Kirkus Reviews writer hailed the “vibrant setting and three-dimensional cast” and deemed Saving Baby Doe a “fairly appealing tale of urban friendship.”
In Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil, Vigilante’s next novel, thirteen-year-old Tia Lugo wakes in bed one night to deal with an asthma attack and happens to witness a murder outside her window—and the killer notices her. As an investigation gets under way, Tia determines to say nothing of what she saw, for fear that the killer could come after her. As Tia’s stress level escalates, her best friend and latent romantic interest Julius offers sympathy, and she decides to take a chance on the mystical powers her grandmother claims the power to wield at her curandera, or spiritual botanical apothecary. In time, text messages from the killer prove that her fears are all too accurate.
Speaking with Teresa Dovalpage of Latino Stories about the genesis of Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil, Vigilante acknowledged that in real life, when she was thirteen and out later at night than she should have been, she witnessed a murder. She told Dovalpage, “In a small way, writing this story helped me right a wrong.” Like Tia, Vigilante also suffers from asthma. A Kirkus Reviews writer enjoyed how “the story is peppered with enriching, thoughtful touches,” such as Tia’s father’s mixed opinion of the grandmother’s belief system and the “range of complex neighborhood dynamics with other kids.” In Booklist, Selenia Paz affirmed that “readers will feel the anxiety crashing over Tia” and the “ever-escalating suspense will keep the pages turning.”[close new]
“I grew up in a housing project where every few days, a little boy would knock on some of the neighbor’s doors asking for food,” Vigilante explained to SATA. “Sometimes he would ask for a slice of bread or an egg. Even though I was just a kid myself, my heart broke every time he’d come to our door, his small hands cupped waiting for something to be placed in them and a tiny, shy smile on his lips. If we had it, I happily gave him what he needed and wondered just what such a small boy could do with those things. Would he make toast? What about the raw egg? And most importantly, why didn’t he have any food in his apartment?
“This boy stayed in my heart for years until I had the courage to write his story and give him what every child should have: safety, love, happiness, and a full belly. This little boy desperately needed to be rescued, not just by anyone but by someone very brave. From this, my first novel, The Trouble with Half Moon, was born.
“My hope is for my readers to take away with them this thought: Even the smallest good deed holds the power to lead to something great. Maybe even life changing.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Booklist, January 1, 2011, Hazel Rochman, review of The Trouble with Half a Moon, p. 111; May 1, 2021, Selenia Paz, review of Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil, p. 57.
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, January, 2011, Deborah Stevenson, review of The Trouble with Half a Moon, p. 255.
Horn Book, March-April, 2014, Susan Dove Lempke, review of Saving Baby Doe, p. 131.
Kirkus Reviews, December 1, 2010, review of The Trouble with Half a Moon; February 1, 2014, review of Saving Baby Doe; August 1, 2021, review of Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil.
School Library Journal, March, 2011, Cheryl Ashton, review of The Trouble with Half a Moon, p. 173; May, 2014, Lalitha Nataraj, review of Saving Baby Doe, p. 118.
ONLINE
Danette Vigilante website, http://www.danettevigilante.com (January 26, 2022).
Latino Stories, https://latinostories.com/vigilante/ (September 20, 2021), “Seeing Ourselves in Books: Teresa Dovalpage Interviews Danette Vigilante.”
New York Public Library website, https://www.nypl.org/ (April 27, 2015), Sarah Ross, “Ask the Author: Danette Vigilante.”
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators website, https://www.scbwi.org/ (January 26, 2022), author profile.
Danette Vigilante grew up in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, New York. She continues to live in NYC with her family and sweet pup, Luna. One day she hopes to move to a place where the sun is always shining, and the air is warm. Danette is the author of TIA LUGO SPEAKS NO EVIL, THE TROUBLE WITH HALF A MOON, a 2012-2013 Sunshine State Young Readers award nominee, and SAVING BABY DOE, a 2014 pick for the New York Public Library 100 titles for Reading and Sharing list. Danette encourages literacy in her community via a Little Free Library installed on her front lawn.
Seeing Ourselves in Books: Teresa Dovalpage Interviews Danette Vigilante
by Teresa Dovalpageupdated on September 20, 2021
This interview is part of the Latinx Author Interview series. Danette Vigilante grew up in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her family and sweet pup, Luna. She is the author of The Trouble with Half a Moon, a 2012-2013 Sunshine State Young Readers award nominee, Saving Baby Doe, a 2014 pick for the New York Public Library 100 titles for Reading and Sharing list, and Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil, recently published by North Star Editions (August, 2021).
Danette Vigilante
Dovalpage: Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil kept me up all night because I wouldn’t go to sleep before finding out how Tia was going to solve all her problemas (witnessing a murder during the night is indeed a big scary problema for a thirteen-year-old, or anybody else). The characters are well-developed and the plot, believable and full of suspense. What was your inspiration for Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil?
Vigilante: This is something I’ve just started saying out loud. It isn’t easy, but terrible things happen. Our experiences bury inside of us and they should be talked about. When I was about 13 years old, I witnessed a murder. I was outside later than I should’ve been when it happened. In a small way, writing this story helped me right a wrong.
Dovalpage: That must have been so scary. And that’s probably why Tia’s fears feel so true to the reader. In that sense, writing can be cathartic too. Speaking of well-portrayed feelings, Tia’s asthma attacks are very well described and feel totally real. Why did you decide to include these symptoms and Julius’ stuttering?
Vigilante: Writing fiction means including many truths. People have issues, medical or otherwise, and as an author you need to have your reader feel every scene. To accomplish this, it means your characters should also have issues. Like Tia, my mom and I both suffer from asthma, so I was able to pass on (I’m sorry, Tia!) my breathing struggles to this character.
Dovalpage: You did it in an amazing way. Now, what’s one thing you’d like young readers to take away after reading Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil?
Vigilante: I’ve got two. I always strive to get across to my readers that no matter how old they are or their circumstances they can make a positive difference in the world. Big or small, their actions take on a life of their own and can reach far beyond what they’d expect. It’s also important to me that every child sees themselves inside a book. Tia’s family is Puerto Rican, as am I. When I was a child, I never saw myself anywhere. That can turn into, “Am I good enough?” feelings. Life is tough enough without having to deal with that.
Dovalpage: I loved that about the book. I am Cuban and there are so many similarities between our cultures, like going to a botánica for help. The phrase “Home Depot of spirituality” is just priceless. The ceramic monkey figurine plays an important role in the story. I remember having one in my house when growing up. Did you have one too? Is there a story behind it?
Vigilante: No, I didn’t have one growing up. The only story behind the monkey figurine is that I needed a “find” for Tia’s dad to want to add to his collection. It just so happened that it fit in perfectly! Sometimes an author just gets lucky, and an idea floats out of thin air. Those moments? Ah, chef’s kiss!
I can’t convey strongly enough to those who want to become an author the importance of reading.
Danette Vigilante
Dovalpage: ¡Sí, el beso del chef! There is a mention, at the end, of the Lugo family installing a Little Free Library outside of their house. You also have one on your front lawn. Could you tell me more about it?
Vigilante: All children should have access to books. The best way for me to achieve that in my small part of the world is to start with the children in my neighborhood. I believe it only takes one book to turn a non-reader into a reader. I’m tickled when I see a child walking away with a book! I even decorate my little library. Have you ever seen a Halloween skeleton reading a book? Well, one visits me every year! You won’t regret installing a Little Free Library on your lawn or wherever. To find out more visit: littlefreelibrary.org.
Dovalpage: That sounds like a great idea. Niños y libros! What project(s) are you working on now?
Vigilante: On the back burner is a picture book, The Sand Between My Toes. This story just won’t leave me alone! On the front burner is another middle grade called Things We Wish For. An assumed terrorist attack, a found diary, and bad spelling bring together twelve-year-old Frances and a newly made enemy.
Dovalpage: I want to read that already! What can you share about your writing journey? Any tips for Latinx authors who have a manuscript and are not sure where to go with it?
Vigilante: For my first book, The Trouble with Half a Moon, I received over 40 rejections! Latinx stories need to be told, so never stop trying. I can’t convey strongly enough to those who want to become an author the importance of reading. Read the types of stories you want to write—it somehow gets into your blood! After you’ve written your story, print it out, and, when you’re ready, read it out loud. If you can find someone willing to listen, read to them. Or your computer might have a read feature. Doing this will help to see what your brain might’ve automatically filled in while you were writing. It will also help with flow. Does it sound choppy? Clarify anything your listener doesn’t understand. Once your story is ready, research agents you’d like to work with. A good place to start is QueryTracker.net. Or, if you prefer to do it on your own, research publishing houses. In both cases, find out what types of stories they’re looking for. An agent’s job is to sell your book, so they get paid when you get paid, never before. Although the attention of one of the big publishing houses is nice, don’t forget the smaller ones. There are some gems out there, shout-out to Jolly Fish Press.
To learn more about Danette Vigilante, check out https://www.danettevigilante.com/.
Ask the Author: Danette Vigilante
by Sarah Ross, Dongan Hills Library
April 27, 2015
Saving Baby Doe Cover
Danette Vigilante grew up in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, NY. She is now a resident of Staten Island along with her husband, two daughters, two puppies and a cat with a bad attitude. Danette is the author of The Trouble With Half a Moon, a 2012-2013 Sunshine State Young Readers award nominee and Saving Baby Doe, a 2014 pick for the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing list.
We were given the opportunity to ask Danette a few questions; here is what we found out!
When and where do you like to read?
I especially love to read while on vacation, though I have to remember to apply sunscreen! I learned that the hard way while reading at my favorite place, a beach. I was visiting Puerto Rico and was so engrossed in Carrie Ryan’s, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, that I was completely unaware of the blazing sun. Ouch!
What were your favorite books as a child?
I was a weak reader growing up, but when I finally discovered a love for reading in the fifth grade, I devoured anything by Judy Blume. One of her books in particular stands out though, and that’s Blubber. I remember not being able to put it down. At bedtime I hid beneath the covers reading (and sweating) by the light of a working dollhouse lamp. I loved that lamp!
What books had the greatest impact on you?
One of the books that had the greatest impact on me is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Like Francie, I grew up poor and lived in Brooklyn and because of this, I think I was able to identify with her in some ways.
Would you like to name a few writers out there you think deserve greater readership?
Oh my gosh, there are so many! Here are just a few: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich author of Eighth-Grade Superzero, Ellen Oh author of Prophecy (The Dragon King Chronicles), Stephanie J. Blake author of The Marble Queen, Danette Haworth author of The Summer of Moonlight Secrets, Susan Beth Pfeffer author of Life as We Knew It, Torrey Maldonado author of Secret Saturdays, Carol Lynch William author of The Chosen One, Karen Sandler author of Tankborn, Renée Watson author of What Momma Left Me and Noni Carter author of Good Fortune.
What was the last book you recommended?
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds.
What do you plan to read next?
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt.
Danette Vigilante grew up in
the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, New York. She continues to live in NYC with
her family and sweet pup, Luna. One day she hopes to move to a place where the
sun is always shining, and the air is warm. Danette is the author of TIA LUGO
SPEAKS NO EVIL, THE TROUBLE WITH HALF A MOON, a Sunshine State Young
Readers award nominee, and SAVING BABY DOE, a pick for the New York Public
Library 100 titles for Reading and Sharing list. Danette encourages literacy in
her community via a Little Free Library installed on her front lawn.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My goal, as a middle grade author, is to give voice to those who rarely see themselves inside a book, namely the Latino community.
VIGILANTE, Danette. Saving Baby Doe. 240p. Putnam. 2014. Tr $16.99. ISBN 9780399251603.
Gr 6-8--After sneaking into a construction site in their Brooklyn neighborhood, 13-year old Lionel Perez and his best friend, Anisa Torres, get more than they bargained for when they discover an abandoned newborn in a Porta-Potti. In the process of seeking medical attention for the baby, Lionel and Anisa are regarded with suspicion by the police and hospital personnel who assume that the teens are the parents. At her mother's behest, Anisa is forced to undergo a physical examination to prove that the baby is not hers. Lionel channels his own feelings of parental abandonment--he has an absentee father--into a scheme to kidnap "Baby Doe" and protect her from a similar fate. Needing funds for his ill-fated plan, he hooks up with a shady group of drug-dealing teens. Vigilante's novel is appealing for its colorful mix of strong characters and rich descriptions of Puerto Rican culture. Unfortunately, these elements take a backseat to a disjointed plot overwhelmed by unnecessary drama. Furthermore, complex topics of sexuality and teen pregnancy are unevenly addressed, particularly when the true identity of Baby Doe's mother is revealed.--Lalitha Nataraj, Escondido Public Library, CA
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Vigilante, Danette SAVING BABY DOE Putnam (Children's Fiction) $16.99 3, 20 ISBN: 978-0-399-25160-3
A middle-grade novel that chronicles the problems a boy and his friend encounter after finding an abandoned baby. Thirteen-year-old Lionel Perez and his best friend, Anisa Torres, live in Brooklyn. One day, while playfully trespassing in a nearby construction site, the pair discover an abandoned baby in a Porta-Potty. The resulting uproar leads Lionel's worried mother to force him to take daily piano lessons over the summer from their neighbor, Miss D. However, despite his mother's precautions, Lionel becomes involved with some neighborhood boys who sell drugs. Though he knows this is a bad idea, Lionel feels it's the only way he can provide for the baby, whom he plans to kidnap and care for. While Lionel's far-fetched plans are obviously doomed to fail, readers may wonder at the level of na�vet� he exhibits in forming them in the first place. The real challenge comes, though, when Lionel discovers the baby's mother and must make the hard decision whether to tell or keep this knowledge a secret. Vigilante's second novel (The Trouble with Half a Moon, 2011) is a quiet story with pacing that sometimes lags and characters whose decisions may leave readers confused. However, its vibrant setting and three-dimensional cast may entice readers who can suspend their disbelief and excuse the many random occurrences. Overall, a fairly appealing tale of urban friendship. (Fiction. 10-14)
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Saving Baby Doe
by Danette Vigilante
Middle School Putnam 230 pp. 3/14 978-0-399-25160-3 $16.99 g
A prologue has a young woman giving birth all alone, so readers will be anticipating the events of the first chapter, in which thirteen-year-old Lionel Perez and his friend Anisa Torres explore a construction site and stumble across a newborn baby. At the hospital, everyone assumes the baby is theirs; Lionel is so mortified and enraged that he punches a wall in frustration. He's even more aghast when his mother sits him down for a sex talk, demonstrating a condom with a banana, explaining how young she was when he was born. She ties up Lionel's time by making him take piano lessons with an elderly neighbor in their Red Hook, Brooklyn, project. Even so, he gets mixed up with a drug dealer in the hopes of earning enough money to be able to "kidnap" the baby, with whom he feels a connection, and take care of her. A lot happens in a very short time period, but Vigilante's finely tuned depiction of Lionel's neighborhood and of his jumbled feelings, which sometimes leads to his making poor choices, is both believable and engaging. With a surprise twist in the middle and a light hand with the drama, this is a great selection for middle school readers, who will empathize with Lionel throughout.
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Vigilante, Danette TIA LUGO SPEAKS NO EVIL Jolly Fish Press (Children's None) $9.99 8, 17 ISBN: 978-1-63163-575-5
A girl witnesses a terrible crime in this upper–middle-grade thriller.
Thirteen-year-old Tia Lugo is ready for the summer and to go on a much-anticipated stay at sleepaway camp trip. But on the eve of her departure Tia wakes up with an asthma attack and, when reaching for her inhaler, becomes the only eyewitness to a murder just outside her window—and the killer looks right back at her. Terrified for her life since the killer knows where she lives, Tia keeps it all a secret bottled inside. As the guilt over her silence and the fear eat at her, Tia finds support in her best friend, Julius, and in her loving grandmother’s weird and embarrassing mystical beliefs. A trip to the eerie botanica where Gram shops for her curandera supplies gives Tia much-needed relief, but threatening text messages from the killer show her the danger she is really in. The novel weaves together a lot of different threads in a short span of time in addition to Tia’s terrifying ordeal and mounting fear of the killer. Apart from one unconvincing subplot when another boy shows an interest in Tia with unexpected consequences, the story is peppered with enriching, thoughtful touches like Tia’s father’s difficult relationship with Gram’s beliefs, Tia’s romantic interest in Julius, and a range of complex neighborhood dynamics with other kids. Tia and her family are Puerto Rican, and Julius has brown skin.
A slightly uneven but overall convincing thriller. (Thriller. 10-14)
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Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil. By Danette Vigilante. Aug. 2021. 209p. Jolly Fish, paper, $9.99 (9781631635755). Gr. 6-8.
When Tia, nervous before leaving for camp, finds herself awake late at night, her life changes as she becomes the only witness to a murder in her neighborhood. Terrified that the killer, who saw her watching, will return, Tia keeps this secret from her parents and the police. As the murder investigation lengthens, Tia struggles to keep the knowledge to herself, turning to her Gram's favorite botanica to search for something that might keep evil away, something that will help her forget what she saw. And as Tia searches for protection, fearing that danger creeps ever closer, her life spirals out of control. Readers will feel the anxiety crashing over Tia as she bumps into suspicious characters around every corner, never sure who to trust, every remark reminding her of what she witnessed. While Tia's family and friends do provide love and comfort, the ever-escalating suspense will keep the pages turning throughout this thrilling upper-middle-grade mystery that takes a realistic look at how someone in Tia's position might react.--Selenia Paz
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