Cuban/Cuban American
¡¿Ropa Vieja para la Cena?! (Old Clothes for Dinner?!)
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Generation: 1st, Immigrant: Reunion of Family, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience
¡Adiós, Habana! ¡Hola, Nueva York! (Good-Bye, Havana! Hola, New York!)
Age 04 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: Living with Other Family or Friends, Immigrant: Reunion of Family, Multilingual: Spanish
¡Ñam, Ñam, Ñam! (Snap! Crunch! Munch?)
Age 04 or older
Themes: Animals, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Early Childhood, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Graphic Novel, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience
A British Girl’s Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak
Age 12 or older
Themes: Coming of Age, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Genre: Romance, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Unaccompanied Minors
A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
Age 12 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Separation: Living with Other Family or Friends, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Genre: Romance, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Welcoming by Community
A Hero’s Guide to Summer Vacation
Age 08 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Accolades & Awards: Youth Media Awards, Arts, Coming of Age, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 2nd, Identity: Exploration, Identity: Multilingual, Mental Health, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Trauma & Healing: Intergenerational
A Song of Frutas
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Celebrations, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Generation: 2nd, Own Voices/Lived Experience
A Través de los Mares (Across So Many Seas)
Age 10 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Accolades & Awards: Youth Media Awards, Coming of Age, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Discrimination: Gender and Sexual, Discrimination: Religious, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences: Gender Roles, Genre: Historical, Immigrant: Religious Freedom, Loss of Childhood, Multilingual: Ladino Featured Words, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: Persecution, Refugee: War/Conflict, Religious Background: Jewish, Setting: Home Country
Abuelita and I Make Flan
Age 05 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Abuelita y yo hacemos flan (Abuelita and I Make Flan)
Age 05 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Abuelita’s Secret
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Separation: Living with Other Family or Friends, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by School
Abuelo, the Sea, and Me
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Youth Media Awards, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Educator Resource, Engagement Tool: Video, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Generation: 2nd, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Outdoor Exploration, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Abuelo’s Flower Shop
Age 04 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Mental Health, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
Across So Many Seas
Age 10 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Accolades & Awards: Youth Media Awards, Coming of Age, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Discrimination: Gender and Sexual, Discrimination: Religious, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences: Gender Roles, Genre: Historical, Immigrant: Religious Freedom, Loss of Childhood, Multilingual: Ladino Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: Persecution, Refugee: War/Conflict, Religious Background: Jewish, Setting: Home Country
Adventure in the City of Stories (Cousins in the Time of Magic #2)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Arts, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Microaggression, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Extended, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Genre: Historical, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Aire encantado (Enchanted Air)
Age 12 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: Historical, Identity: Multiracial, Multilingual: Spanish
Alas salvajes (Wings in the Wild)
Age 12 or older
Themes: Activism, Animals, Arts, Coming of Age, Community Action, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Separation: By Detention, Format: Novel In Verse, Identity: Multilingual, Loss of Childhood, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Journey, Refugee: Persecution, Trauma & Healing, Unaccompanied Minors, Welcoming by Individual
All For One, Definitely Dominguita #3
Age 06 or older
Themes: Celebrations: Quinceañera, Cross-Group Friendship, Engagement Tool: Discussion, Generation: 1st, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Aventura en la Ciudad de las Historias (Adventure in the City of Stories)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Arts, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Microaggression, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Extended, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Genre: Historical, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Baking with Mi Abuelita
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Identity: Multilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by Individual
Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed
Age 08 or older
Themes: Arts, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Format: Audiobook, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Welcoming by Individual
Camila Núñez’s Year of Disasters
Age 14 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Coming of Age, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Genre: Romance, Identity: Body Image, LGBTQIA+, Mental Health, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Captain Dom’s Treasure, Definitely Dominguita #2
Age 06 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 2nd, Identity: Multilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
Age 06 or older
Themes: Arts, Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: Historical
Coming Up Cuban: Rising Past Castro’s Shadow
Age 9 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Genre: Historical, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Con Cuba en el bolsillo (Cuba in My Pocket)
Age 8 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Discrimination: Immigration Status, Discrimination: Language Ability, Educator Resource, Engagement Tool: Discussion, Engagement Tool: Video, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: War/Conflict, Unaccompanied Minors
Countdown for Nochebuena
Age 00 or older
Themes: Celebrations, Celebrations: Christmas, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Early Childhood, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Cousins in the Time of Magic (Cousins in the Time of Magic #1)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Celebrations, Celebrations: Cinco de Mayo, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Extended, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Genre: Historical, Identity: Exploration, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Crecer Siendo Cubano (Coming Up Cuban)
Age 9 or older
Themes: Genre: Historical, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Criaturas Isleñas (Island Creatures)
Age 12 or older
Themes: Activism, Animals, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Gender and Sexual, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Novel In Verse, Generational Differences, Genre: Romance, Multilingual: Spanish, Natural Disaster/Climate Change, Outdoor Exploration, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country, STEM, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Trauma & Healing: Intergenerational, Trauma & Healing: Sexual Assault
Cuba in My Pocket
Age 8 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Immigration Status, Discrimination: Language Ability, Educator Resource, Engagement Tool: Discussion, Engagement Tool: Video, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Identity: Multilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: War/Conflict, Unaccompanied Minors
Daniel Deconstructed
Age 13 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Diverse Abilities: Neurological, Genre: Romance, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience