Staff Recommendations
Year-Round Reads for Hispanic Heritage Month
Picture Books
- Islandborn by Junot Diaz
- Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora
- Smoky Night by Eve Bunting and David Diaz
- Waiting For the Biblioburro by Monica Brown
- Mango, Abuela and Me by Meg Medina
- La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya
- Just Ask! by Sonia Sotomayor
- Dalia’s Wondrous Hair by Laura Lacamara
- Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
- Yes! We Are Latinos by Alma Flor Ada
- Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
- Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt De La Pena
- My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero
- Tito Puente, Mambo King by Monica Brown
- Rainbow Weaver by Linda Elovitz Marshall
Middle Grades
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
- The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
- The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
- The First Rule of Punk by Celia C PerezL
- Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
- Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel by Xavier Garza
- 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
- Dancing Home by Alma Flor Ada
- Each Tiny Spark by Pablo Cartaya
- Strange Birds by Celia C. Perez
- Rooting for Rafael Rosales by Kurtis Scaletta**
- Call Me Maria by Judith Cofer
- The Moon Within by Aida Salazar
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Teen Books
- The Radius of Us by Marie Marquardt
- The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Red Glass by Laura Resau
- Yaqui Delgado wants to Kick Your A** by Meg Medina
- The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore
- I am not your perfect Mexican daughter by Erika Sanchez
- Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Pena
- Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
- Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
- Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis**
- Jumped In by Patrick Flores-Scott
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Adult Books
- In The Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Marchado
- Dominicana by Angie Cruz
- Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz**
- The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara**
- The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
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