Argentinian/Argentinian American

?De donde eres? (Where Are You From?)

by Yamile Saied Mendez

Age 04 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Identity: Multiracial, IYNB Recommends: ASCA School Counselors 2026, Multilingual: Spanish, Welcoming Library: Core Picture Books (Current)

¿Qué Serás? (What Will You Be?)

by Yamile Saied Méndez

Age 04 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Identity: Exploration, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Calling the Moon: 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors

by Aida Salazar (Editor)

Age 10 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Celebrations, Coming of Age, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Anthology, Identity: Body Image, Identity: Multiracial, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing

Child’s Play

by Ramiro José Peralta

Age 04 or older

Themes: Arts, Discrimination: Economic, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Identity: Multilingual, Immigrant: Economic, Mental Health, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country, Trauma & Healing
Come on In

Come on In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home

by Adi Alsaid

Age 12 or older

Themes: Discrimination: Racial, Event: MCSTOYA Connects: Migration Reads, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Anthology, Generational Differences: Language, Identity: Multiracial, Immigrant: Economic, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim, Setting: Home Country

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White

by Lila Quintero Weaver

Themes: Discrimination: Racial, Generation: 1st, Genre: Historical, Identity: Multiracial, Own Voices/Lived Experience

El Deseo de mi Corazón (The Reel Wish)

by Yamile Saied Méndez

Age 08 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Format: Audiobook, Mental Health, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Welcoming by School

En estas tierras mágicas (On These Magic Shores)

by Yamile Saied Méndez

Age 08 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Family Separation: By Detention, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: Undocumented

Flora la Fresca & the Plot to Make Millions

by Veronica Chambers

Age 08 or older

Themes: Animals, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 1st, Identity: Exploration

Furia

by Yamile Saied Mendez

Age 14 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generational Differences: Gender Roles, Identity: Multilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience

I Am, Yo Soy

by Gabriela Orozco Belt

Age 04 or older

Themes: Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Identity: Exploration, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish/English Bilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by Individual

Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

by Patricia Park

Age 12 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Activism, Allyship, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Friendship, Discrimination: Racial, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 3rd, Identity: Multiracial, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Juego de Niños (Child’s Play)

by Ramiro José Peralta

Age 04 or older

Themes: Arts, Discrimination: Economic, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Identity: Multilingual, Immigrant: Economic, Mental Health, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country, Trauma & Healing

Julieta and the Romeos

by Maria E. Andreu

Age 14 or older

Themes: Cross-Group Dating, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Genre: Romance, Own Voices/Lived Experience

La Gran Sorpresa de Pésaj (The Passover Pet Surprise)

by Ana María Shua

Age 04 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Animals, Celebrations, Celebrations: Passover, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 1st, Identity: Multilingual, Identity: Multiracial, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Jewish, Setting: Home Country

Love in English

by Maria E. Andreu

Age 14 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Cross-Group Friendship, Format: Audiobook, Identity: Multilingual, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience

My Year in the Middle

by Lila Quintero Weaver

Age 08 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Activism, Cross-Group Friendship, Discrimination: Racial, Education & Literacy, Format: Audiobook, Genre: Historical, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Sports

On These Magic Shores

by Yamile Saied Méndez

Age 08 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Family Separation: By Detention, Format: Audiobook, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: Undocumented

Salsa Stories

by Lulu Delacre

Age 07 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Celebrations, Celebrations: New Years, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Neighbors & Neighborhoods, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Seven Pablos

by Jorge Luján

Age 04 or older

Themes: Immigrant: Economic, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: Persecution, Setting: Home Country

Ten Things I Hate About Me

by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Age 12 or older

Themes: Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences: Gender Roles, Identity: Multiracial, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim

The Beautiful Game

by Yamile Saied Méndez

Age 09 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Coming of Age, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Friendship, Discrimination: Gender and Sexual, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Separation: Living with Other Family or Friends, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 2nd, Generational Differences: Gender Roles, Identity: Body Image, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Sports, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend

The Passover Pet Surprise

by Ana María Shua

Age 04 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Animals, Celebrations, Celebrations: Passover, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 1st, Identity: Multilingual, Identity: Multiracial, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Jewish, Setting: Home Country

The Reel Wish

by Yamile Saied Méndez

Age 08 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Format: Audiobook, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Welcoming by School

The Secret Side of Empty

by Maria Andreu

Age 12 or older

Themes: Education & Literacy, Family Relationship: Parents, Immigrant: Undocumented

The Trouble With Sunshine

by Yamile Saied Méndez

Age 09 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Activism, Animals, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Parents, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend

Twin Flames

by Olivia Abtahi

Age 12 or older

Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Identity: Multiracial, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim, Religious Background: Zoroastrian

We Are All We Have

by Marina Budhos

Age 12 or older

Themes: Coming of Age, Detention & Deportation, Discrimination: Immigration Status, Family Separation: By Detention, Generation: 1st, Refugee: Asylee

Where Are You From?

by Yamile Saied Mendez

Age 04 or older

Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Identity: Multiracial, IYNB Recommends: ASCA School Counselors 2026, Welcoming Library: Core Picture Books (Current), Welcoming Library: Pine Collection