LatinX Resources
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LatinX KidLit Book Festival 2020.
LatinXs in KidLit: Exploring the World of YA, MG, and Children's Literature. 2021 Books By/For/About LatinX. [Young Adult, Middle Grade, Children] El Comité de Libros Infantiles de Bank Street College of Education. The Best Children’s Picture Books of the Year in Spanish, 2021 Edition. 11 pages. “Children’s and YA Books by LatinX Authors.” Brightly, 2020. “Featuring a wide variety of titles for kids of all ages, including picture books, middle grade & chapter books, and young adult reads, these stories recognize Latinx contributions to the world of children’s literature and are great for reading at any time of year. Share these books with little and big kids alike.” Middle School
Cartaya, Pablo. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora. Viking, 2017. When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí. Bejar, Ruth. Lucky Broken Girl. Puffin, 2018. “[I]n the 1960s, a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. Ruthie’s plight will intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time.” Pura Belpre Award. High School Nonfiction
Brimner, Larry Dane. Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights. Penguin Random House, 2014. Engle, Margarita. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2015]. "In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War." --Amazon. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. Will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again? MEMOIR Ortiz, Paul. An African American and Latinx History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2018. "... [A] bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists and revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora addressed issues still plaguing the United States today." It’s Not All Black and White: Multiracial Youth Speak Out. Annick, 2012. Mitchell, Pablo. History of Latinos : Eexploring Diverse Rroots. Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. Vecchione, Patrice and Alyssa Raymond, eds. Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience. Triangle Square, 2019. “This collection of sixty-four poems by poets who come from all over the world shares the experience of first- and second-generation young adult immigrants and refugees.” POETRY |
Price, Gary. “University of Texas Libraries: LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections Launches High School Curriculum Site.” Infodocket, 21 Aug 2020.
High School Fiction
Alvarez, Julia. Return to Sender. “After Tyler’s father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected to her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?” Acevedo, Elizabeth. Clap When You Land. Quill Tree, 2020. “Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.” Acevedo, Elizabeth. With Fire on High. Quill Tree, 2019. “Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.” Acevedo, Elizabeth. The Poet X. Quill Tree, 2020. “Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook …. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, … she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.” Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award. Davis, Joshua. Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream. 1st ed., 2014. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014. "In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the National Underwater Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded, beat-up public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much-but two inspiring science teachers had convinced them that four impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean should try to build an underwater robot." De la Pena, Matt. All his YA books Engle, Margarita. All her YA books López, Diana. Ask my mood ring how I feel: a novel. 1st ed. Little, Brown and Co., 2013. “When thirteen-year-old Erica "Chia" Montenegro finds out her mother has breast cancer, she makes a promise to God to raise money for breast cancer awareness and discovers that when family and friends work together, miracles can happen.” McCall, Guadalupe Garcia. All the Stars Denied. Lee & Low, 2018. “In the heart of the Great Depression, everywhere in Texas is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up proclaiming No Dogs or Mexicans and No Mexicans Allowed. … [H]er family becomes a target of repatriation efforts to send Mexicans back to Mexico whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not. Dumped across the border and separated from half her family, Estrella must figure out a way to survive and care for her mother and baby brother.” Companion novel to Shame the Stars. McCall, Guadalupe Garcia. Shame the Stars. Tu Books, 2016. “Eighteen-year-old Joaquin del Toro's future looks bright. With his older brother in the priesthood, he’s set to inherit his family s Texas ranch. He s in love with Dulcena and she s in love with him. But it’s 1915, and trouble has been brewing along the US-Mexico border. On one side, the Mexican Revolution is taking hold; on the other, Texas Rangers fight Tejano insurgents, and ordinary citizens are caught in the middle. … a rich reimagining of Romeo and Juliet set in Texas during the explosive years of Mexico s revolution.” McCall, Guadalupe Garcia. Summer of the Mariposas. Lee & Low, 2015. “When Odilia and her four sisters find a dead body in the swimming hole, they embark on a hero’s journey to return the dead man to his family in Mexico. But returning home to Texas turns into an odyssey that would rival Homer’s original tale. With the supernatural aid of ghostly La Llorona via a magical earring, Odilia and her little sisters travel a road of tribulation to their long-lost grandmother s house. Along the way, they must outsmart a witch and her Evil Trinity: a wily warlock, a coven of vicious half-human barn owls, and a bloodthirsty livestock-hunting chupacabras. Can these fantastic trials prepare Odilia and her sisters for what happens when they face their final test, returning home to the real world, where goddesses and ghosts can no longer help them?” McCall, Guadalupe Garcia. Under the Mesquite. Lee & Low, 2011. “Lupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mother's battle with cancer in this young adult novel in verse.” Quintero, Isabel. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces. Cinco Puntos Press, 2014. “Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, her friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.” Sanchez, Alex. Getting it. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2006. “Hoping to impress a sexy female classmate, fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay student Sal to give him an image makeover, in exchange for Carlos's help in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance at their Texas high school.” Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2012. "Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before." Serros, Michele M. Honey Blonde Chica : a Novel. Simon Pulse, 2006. “Evie Gomez finds herself caught between two very different friends when Dee Dee returns to town after living a few years in Mexico City.” Soto, Gary. Pacific Crossing. Harcourt Brace, c1992. “Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends.” Stork, Francisco X. The Last Summer of the Death Warriors. Scholastic, 2010. “When Pancho arrives at St. Anthony's Home, he knows his time there will be short: If his plans succeed, he'll soon be arrested for the murder of his sister's killer. But then he's assigned to help D.Q., whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth. D.Q. tells Pancho all about his "Death Warrior's Manifesto," which will help him to live out his last days fully--ideally, he says, with the love of the beautiful Marisol. As Pancho tracks down his sister's murderer, he finds himself falling under the influence of D.Q. and Marisol, who is everything D.Q. said she would be;and he is inexorably drawn to a decision: to honor his sister and her death, or embrace the way of the Death Warrior and choose life.” Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World. Scholastic, 2011. “Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear ― part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo's differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer . . . to join "the real world." But Marcelo thinks, “The term "cognitive disorder" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others.” Stork, Francisco X. The Memory of Light. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2016. “When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.” Zoboi, Ibi. Pride and Prejudice Remix. Balzer & Bray, 2019. “Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable.” “Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color.” Zoboi, Ibi. American Street. Balzer & Bray, 2018. “On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola’s mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit’s west side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own. Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world, a dangerous proposition presents itself, and Fabiola soon realizes that freedom comes at a cost.” National Book Award Finalist. |