Portrait of Matt

Matt de la Peña (’91)

Congratulations to Matt de la Peña (’91), upon winning the 2016 Newbery Medal for his book Last Stop on Market Street.

Matt is featured in an article by San Dieguito student Kate Sequeira (the article doesn’t appear to be online… yet… we’ll post a link if it does come online). Here’s a link to the article! A quote:

“I loved San Dieguito because it was the opposite of where I had come from,” de la Peña sad. “It was so calm and everybody, from the first time I met them, was talking about college.”

“SD Grad Wins Newbery,” by Kate Sequeira, 7 Oct 2016 issue of The Mustang