September 15-October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month!
We have curated a list of books for all ages to both celebrate and remember.
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Picture Books
- Mango, Abuela, and me / Meg Medina ; illustrated by Angela Dominguez.
- Just ask! : be different, be brave, be you / Sonia Sotomayor ; illustrated by Rafael López.
- Pepe and the Parade : a celebration of Hispanic heritage / written by Tracey Kyle ; illustrated by Mirelle Ortega.
- Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.
- Dreamers / Yuyi Morales.
- My papi has a motorcycle / Isabel Quintero ; illustrated by Zeke Peña.
- Señorita Mariposa / Ben Gundersheimer (Mr. "G") ; illustrated by Marcos Almada Rivero.
- Where are you from? / by Yamile Saied Mendez ; illustrated by Jaime Kim.
- Viva Frida / Yuyi Morales ; photography by Tim O'Meara.
- Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poem by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López.
- Alma and how she got her name / Juana Martinez-Neal.
- Sofia Valdez, future prez / by Andrea Beaty ; illustrated by David Roberts.
- Brick by brick / Heidi Woodward Sheffield.
- Waiting for the BiblioBurro / by Monica Brown ; illustrations by John Parra.
- A picture book of Cesar Chavez / by David A. Adler and Michael S. Adler ; illustrated by Marie Olofsdotter.
- Carmela full of wishes / Matt de la Peña ; Christian Robinson.
- La Madre Goose : nursery rhymes for los niños / Susan Middleton Elya ; illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal.
- La princesa and the pea / Susan Middleton Elya ; illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal.
- Green is a chile pepper : a book of colors / by Roseanne Greenfield Thong ; illustrated by John Parra.
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras / Duncan Tonatiuh.
- Clatter bash! : a Day of the Dead celebration / Richard Keep.
- Family pictures / paintings by Carmen Lomas Garza ; stories by Carmen Lomas Garza ; as told to Harriet Rohmer ; version in Spanish, Rosalma Zubizarreta = Cuadros de familia / cuadros de Carmen Lomas Garza ; relatos de Carmen Lomas Garza ; escritos por Harriet Rohmer ; version en espa~nol, Rosalma Zubizarreta.
Easy Readers
Juvenile Nonfiction
- I am Sonia Sotomayor / Brad Meltzer ; illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos.
- The princess and the warrior : a tale of two volcanoes / Duncan Tonatiuh.
- A kid's guide to Latino history : more than 50 activities / Valerie Petrillo.
- My family divided : one girl's journey of home, loss, and hope / Diane Guerrero with Erica Moroz.
- Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir / Margarita Engle.
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln / Margarita Engle ; illustrated by Rafael López.
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré / words by Anika Aldamuy Denise ; illustrations by Paola Escobar.
- Frida Kahlo / illustrated by Sandra Dieckmann ; written by Lucy Brownridge.
- Frida Kahlo / written by Isabel Thomas ; illustrations by Marianna Madriz.
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos / by Monica Brown ; illustrated by John Parra.
- Book fiesta! : celebrate Children's Day/Book Day = celebremos El día de los niños/El día de los libros / by Pat Mora ; illustrated by Rafael López.
- Paper crafts for Day of the Dead / Randel McGee.
- Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month! / Marisa Orgullo.
Juvenile Fiction
- Charlie Hernández & the league of shadows / Ryan Calejo.
- Stella Díaz never gives up / Angela Dominguez.
- Tia Lola stories [book on CD] / Julia Alvarez.
- Lucky broken girl [book on CD] / Ruth Behar.
- The epic fail of Arturo Zamora [book on CD] / Pablo Cartaya.
- Sarai and the around the world fair / Sarai Gonzalez and Monica Brown ; illustrations by Christine Almeda.
- Each tiny spark / by Pablo Cartaya.
- The storm runner / J.C. Cervantes.
- The fresh new face of Griselda / by Jennifer Torres.
- The only road / Alexandra Diaz.
Young Adult Fiction
- Tigers, not daughters / Samantha Mabry.
- Sanctuary / Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher.
- Running / Natalia Sylvester.
Adult Fiction
- Afterlife : a novel / by Julia Alvarez.
- Fruit of the drunken tree / Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
- You had me at hola / Alexis Daria.
- In the midst of winter / Isabel Allende ; translated by Nick Castor and Amanda Hopkinson.
- Mexican gothic / Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
- Never too real / Carmen Rita.
- Lost children archive / by Valeria Luiselli.
- Caramelo / Sandra Cisneros.
- The house of broken angels / Luis Alberto Urrea.
Adult Nonfiction
- An African American and Latinx history of the United States / Paul Ortiz.
- My beloved world / Sonia Sotomayor.
- In the country we love : my family divided / Diane Guerrero with Michelle Burford.
- The ghosts of Hero Street : how one small Mexican-American community gave so much in World War II and Korea / Carlos Harrison.
- Ordinary girls : a memoir / Jaquira Díaz.
- The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border / Francisco Cantú.
