Cuban/Cuban American

¡¿Ropa Vieja para la Cena?! (Old Clothes for Dinner?!)

by Nathalie Alonso

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!)

by Edie Colon

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?)

by Diana Castillo

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

by Laura Taylor Namey

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

by Laura Taylor Namey

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

by Pablo Cartaya

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

by Margarita Engle

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)

by Ruth Behar

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

by Adriana Hernández Bergstrom

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)

by Adriana Hernández Bergstrom

Age 05 or older

Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Abuelita’s Secret

by Alma Flor Ada

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

by Ismée Williams

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

by Jackie Morera

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

by Ruth Behar

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)

by Emma Otheguy

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)

by Margarita Engle

Age 12 or older

Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: Historical, Identity: Multiracial, Multilingual: Spanish

Alas salvajes (Wings in the Wild)

by Margarita Engle

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

by Terry Catasus Jennings

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)

by Emma Otheguy

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

by Julissa Mora

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

by José Pablo Iriarte

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

by Miriam Zoila Pérez

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

by Terry Catasus Jennings

Age 06 or older

Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 2nd, Identity: Multilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa

by Veronica Chambers

Age 06 or older

Themes: Arts, Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: Historical

Coming Up Cuban: Rising Past Castro’s Shadow

by Sonia Manzano

Age 9 or older

Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Genre: Historical, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Con Cuba en el bolsillo (Cuba in My Pocket)

by Adrianna Cuevas

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

by Adriana Hernández Bergstrom

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)

by Emma Otheguy

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)

by Sonia Manzano

Age 9 or older

Themes: Genre: Historical, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Criaturas Isleñas (Island Creatures)

by Margarita Engle

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

by Adrianna Cuevas

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

by James Ramos

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