Colombian/Colombian American

A Thousand White Butterflies

by Jessica Betancourt-Perez

Age 05 or older

Themes: Celebrations, Cross-Group Friendship, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by Individual

How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe

by Raquel Vasquez Gilliand

Age 14 or older

Themes: Award Winner, Award Winner: Youth Media Awards 2022, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Family Relationship: Siblings, Own Voices/Lived Experience

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

by Diane Guerrero

Age 15 or older

Themes: Deportation, Family Separation: By Detention, Immigrant: Undocumented, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Let Me Fix You a Plate

by Elizabeth Lilly

Age 04 or older

Themes: Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Multiracial Identity, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming Library: Core Picture Books (Current)

Meet Me Halfway

by Anika Fajardo

Age 08 or older

Themes: Allyship, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Recommended: Las Musas

My Family Divided: One Girl’s Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope

by Diane Guerrero

Age 10 or older

Themes: Deportation, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Generation: 1st, Immigrant: Undocumented, Multilingual Character, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Once Upon a Quinceañera

by Monica Gomez-Hira

Age 13 or older

Themes: Coming of Age, Cross-Group Dating, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Engagement Tool: Video, Generation: 1st, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Our Stories Carried Us Here

by Full List in Materials

Age 12 or older

Themes: Citizenship, Discrimination: Cultural, Engagement Tool: Video, Graphic Novel, Immigrant: Economic, Immigrant: Education, Immigrant: Religious Freedom, Immigrant: Reunion of Family, Immigrant: Undocumented

Sanctuary

by Paola Mendoza

Age 12 or older

Themes: Audiobook, Deportation, Discrimination: Immigration Status, Family Separation: By Detention, Immigrant: Undocumented, US/Mexican Border Crossing

Saturday Sancocho

by Leyla Torres

Age 04 or older

Themes: Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Parents, Own Voices/Lived Experience

What If a Fish

by Anika Fajardo

Age 08 or older

Themes: Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 1st, Multiracial Identity, Recommended: Las Musas, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Visiting Home Country

You Don’t Have a Shot

by Racquel Marie

Age 14 or older

Themes: Audiobook, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Genre: Romance, LGBTQIA+, Multiracial Identity, Sports