Mexican/Mexican American
¡Andale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family
Age 12 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 2nd, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Sports, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Trauma & Healing: Physical Assault, Trauma & Healing: Sexual Assault
¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico
Age 12 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Graphic Novel, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences, Identity: Body Image, Identity: Multilingual, Identity: Multiracial, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country, Welcoming by Individual
¡El Día de los Muertos en Sesame Street! (The Day of the Dead on Sesame Street!)
Age 00 or older
Themes: Celebrations, Celebrations: Día de los Muertos, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Early Childhood, Multilingual: Spanish
¡Essie! ¿Otra vez? / Again, Essie?
Age 3 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 2nd, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish/English Bilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience, STEM
¡Felicidades!: A Celebration with Shapes
Age 03 or older
Themes: Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Early Childhood, Education & Literacy, Multilingual: Spanish/English Bilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience
¡Fiesta!: A Festival of Colors
Age 03 or older
Themes: Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Early Childhood, Multilingual: Spanish/English Bilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience
¡Sí, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A.
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Activism, Community Action, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Economic, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 2nd, Genre: Historical, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish/English Bilingual, Neighbors & Neighborhoods
¡Vamos! Let’s Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos
Age 04 or older
Themes: Allegory, Animals, Celebrations, Celebrations: Día de los Muertos, Celebrations: Halloween, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Format: Audiobook, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Setting: US/Mexican Border Crossing
¡Vamos! Let’s Cross the Bridge
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Allegory, Animals, Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Format: Audiobook, Immigrant: Economic, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Neighbors & Neighborhoods, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: US/Mexican Border Crossing
¡Vamos! Vamos a Cruzar el Puente (¡Vamos! Let’s Cross the Bridge)
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Allegory, Animals, Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Immigrant: Economic, Multilingual: Spanish, Neighbors & Neighborhoods, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: US/Mexican Border Crossing
¡Viva Lola Espinoza!
Age 12 or older
Themes: Coming of Age, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Discrimination: Colorism, Discrimination: Language Ability, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 2nd, Generational Differences: Language, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Genre: Romance, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country
¡Viva Lola Espinoza! (Spanish Edition)
Age 12 or older
Themes: Coming of Age, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Discrimination: Colorism, Discrimination: Language Ability, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Generation: 2nd, Generational Differences: Language, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Genre: Romance, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country
¡Viva Valenzuela!: Fernandomania Erupts in Los Angeles
Age 07 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Genre: Biography, Identity: Multilingual, Immigrant: Economic, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Sports
¡Viva Valenzuela!: La Fernandomanía se Apodera de Los Ángeles (¡Viva Valenzuela!: Fernandomania Erupts in Los Angeles)
Age 07 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Genre: Biography, Identity: Multilingual, Immigrant: Economic, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Sports
¡Yum, Yum, México! Comidas de la A a la Z (Yum, Yum, Mexico! Mexican Food from A to Z)
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Early Childhood, Education & Literacy, Multilingual: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience
¿Quién Fue César Chávez? (Who Was César Chávez?)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Activism, Community Action, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Immigration Status, Discrimination: Racial, Generation: 2nd, Genre: Biography, Genre: Nonfiction, Migrant/Seasonal Worker
A Bridge Home
Age 14 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Activism, Coming of Age, Community Action, Discrimination: Gender and Sexual, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Genre: Historical, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
A Crown for Corina
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Own Voices/Lived Experience
A Flicker of Hope: A Story of Migration
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Animals, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: On Journey, Format: Audiobook, Migrant/Seasonal Worker, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Outdoor Exploration, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country
A Garden for Lili
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 2nd, Multilingual: Arabic Featured Words, Multilingual: Italian Featured Words, Multilingual: Jamaican Patois Featured Words, Multilingual: Mandarin Featured Words, Multilingual: Polish Featured Words, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Neighbors & Neighborhoods, Outdoor Exploration, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim, Welcoming by Community
A Gift from Abuela
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Discrimination: Economic, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country
A Gift from Papá Diego / Un Regalo de Papá Diego
Age 05 or older
Themes: Arts, Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences, Generational Differences: Language, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish/English Bilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: US/Mexican Border Crossing
A Marvelous Mexican Misunderstanding: A Day of the Dead Picture Book
Age 06 or older
Themes: Celebrations, Celebrations: Día de los Muertos, 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: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 1st, Genre: Humor, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
A New Home
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Youth Media Awards, Family Relationship: Parents, Outdoor Exploration, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son
Age 16 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Identity: Multilingual, Identity: Multiracial
A Seed in the Sun
Age 09 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Activism, Coming of Age, Community Action, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Immigration Status, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Format: Audiobook, Format: Novel In Verse, Genre: Historical, Migrant/Seasonal Worker, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience
A Sky Without Lines
Age 03 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status
A Year of Celebraciones
Age 05 or older
Themes: Celebrations, Celebrations: Lunar New Year, Celebrations: New Years, Celebrations: Nowruz, Celebrations: Odunde, Celebrations: Rosh Hashanah, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Religious Background: Jewish, Welcoming by Community, Welcoming by School
Abuela’s Letter
Age 05 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Identity: Multilingual, Mental Health, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Christian, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Trauma & Healing: Illness
Abuelita’s Gift: A Día de Muertos Story
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Celebrations: Día de los Muertos, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
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
Abuelita’s Song
Age 04 or older
Themes: Arts, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country