Various (Hispanic/Latinx)

Burn Down, Rise Up

by Vincent Tirado

Age 14 or older

Themes: Activism, Award Winner: Youth Media Awards 2023, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Friendship, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Genre: Action Adventure, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Donde las maravillas crecen (Where Wonder Grows)

by Xelena González

Age 05 or older

Themes: Award Winner: Youth Media Awards 2023, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Non-English Book: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, STEM

Dreams From Many Rivers

by Margarita Engle

Age 10 or older

Themes: Citizenship, Genre: Historical, Human Rights Violation: Trafficking, Immigrant: Economic, Immigrant: Education, Immigrant: Undocumented, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Latinitas

by Juliet Menéndez

Age 08 or older

Themes: Celebrations

Le dicen Fregona: Poemas de un chavo de la frontera

by David Bowles

Age 10 or older

Themes: Activism, Coming of Age, Community Action, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Deportation, Discrimination: Immigration Status, Discrimination: Racial, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Generation: 1st, LGBTQIA+, Multilingual Character, Non-English Book: Spanish, Own Voices/Lived Experience, US/Mexican Border Crossing

Nobody’s Pilgrims

by Sergio Troncoso

Age 16 or older

Themes: Coming of Age, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Immigrant: Undocumented, Loss of Childhood, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Unaccompanied Minors

Nuestra America: 30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United States

by Sabrina Vourvoulias

Age 08 or older

Themes: Activism, Anthology, Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Genre: Biography

Nuestra America: 30 latinas/latinos inspiradores que han forjado la historia de Los Estados Unidos

by Sabrina Vourvoulias

Age 08 or older

Themes: Activism, Anthology, Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Genre: Biography

Paletero Man

by Lucky Diaz

Age 04 or older

Themes: Bilingual Book: Spanish/English, Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Own Voices/Lived Experience, The Arts

Paletero Man / !Que Paletero tan Cool! (Bilingual Spanish-English)

by Lucy Diaz

Age 04 or older

Themes: Bilingual Book: Spanish/English, Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Own Voices/Lived Experience, The Arts

Reina Ramos Meets a BIG Puppy

by Emma Otheguy

Age 04 or older

Themes: Animals, Cross-Group Friendship, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by Individual

Side by Side/ Lado a Lado

by Monica Brown

Age 04 or older

Themes: Bilingual Book: Spanish/English, Celebrations, Community Action, Migrant/Seasonal Worker

Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds

by Jorge Argueta

Age 07 or older

Themes: Bilingual Book: Spanish/English, Educator Resource, Refugee Journey, Refugee: Asylee, Refugee: Gang Violence, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Unaccompanied Minors, Welcoming Library: Core Picture Books (Current)

The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border

by Juan Pablo Villalobos

Age 12 or older

Themes: Detention, Refugee Journey, Unaccompanied Minors, US/Mexican Border Crossing

They Call Her Fregona: A Border Kid’s Poems

by David Bowles

Age 10 or older

Themes: Activism, Allyship, Coming of Age, Community Action, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Deportation, Discrimination: Immigration Status, Discrimination: Racial, Family Separation: By Detention, Generation: 1st, Genre: Poetry, LGBTQIA+, Multilingual Character, Own Voices/Lived Experience, US/Mexican Border Crossing

Us, in Progress

by Lulu Delacre

Age 08 or older

Themes: Own Voices/Lived Experience

Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

by Saraciea J. Fennell

Age 12 or older

Themes: Anthology, Own Voices/Lived Experience

Yes! We Are Latinos

by F. Isabel Campoy

Age 08 or older

Themes: Anthology, Educator Resource, Genre: Historical, Multiracial Identity