Author |
Title |
Summary |
Bernardo |
Loves Me, Loves Me Not |
While trying to win the attention of a high school basketball star who already has a girlfriend, Maggie, a Cuban American, learns painful lessons about romantic young love. |
Bertrand |
Sweet Fifteen |
When seamstress Rita Navarro makes a quinceañera dress for fourteen-year-old Stefanie, she finds herself becoming involved with the girl's family and attracted to her uncle. |
Bledsoe |
Cougar Canyon |
After hearing that people are planning to kill a mountain lion in the wilds near her neighborhood, twelve-year-old Izzie decides that it is her duty to protect the animal. |
Carlson |
Where Angels Glide at Dawn: New Stories from Latin America |
A collection of short stories by a variety of Latin American authors. |
Chambers |
Quinceanera Means Sweet 15 |
Eagerly anticipating her Quinceañera, the fifteenth birthday celebration that will signify her adulthood, Marisol is troubled by a lack of money, her mother's new boyfriend, changes in her best friend, and the absence of the father she never knew. |
Delacre |
Salsa Stories |
A collection of stories within the story of a family celebration where the guests relate their memories of growing up in various Latin American countries. Also contains recipes. |
Fiske |
The Twaining of America |
In 1836 sixteen-year-old Ramón Clemente leaves his family's ranch in the California section of Mexico to attend Yale University. Later he marries a girl from Saint Louis, becomes an American citizen, travels frequently as an employee of the Department of State, and gains a unique perspective on American growth and events such as the Mexican, Civil, and Spanish-American wars. |
Harper |
Delfino’s Journey |
Delfino and his cousin Salvador leave their Aztec village in Mexico to search for work in the United States, where they endure dangerous and brutal conditions before ultimately finding success beyond all their dreams. Includes related explanatory notes and bibliography. |
Hernandez |
The Secret of Two Brothers |
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Herrera |
CrashBoomLove |
After his father leaves home, sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful experiences of growing up as a Mexican American high school student. |
Jimenez |
The Circuit: Stories from the life of a migrant child |
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Jimenez |
Breaking Through |
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education. |
Jimenez |
The Christmas Gift |
When his family has to move again a few days before Christmas in order to find work, Panchito worries that he will not get the ball he has been wanting. |
Lachtman |
The Girl from Playa Blanca |
When Elena and her little brother, Carlos, leave their Mexican seaside village to search for their immigrant father in Los Angeles, they encounter intrigue, crime, mystery, friendship, and love. |
Martinez |
Parrot in the Oven: mi vida |
Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle. |
Martinez |
Spirits of the High Mesa |
The book is set in a small village in Northern New Mexico where a Hispanic boy is torn between the lure of modern U.S. life and deep hispanic cultural values held by El Grande, his mountain man grandfather. |
Mikaelsen |
Sparrow Hawk Red |
Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers. |
Mohr |
Going Home |
Feeling like an outsider when she visits her relatives in Puerto Rico for the first time, eleven-year-old Felita tries to come to terms with the heritage she always took for granted. |
Montes |
Something Wicked’s in those Woods |
When their parents are killed in an accident, eleven-year-old Javier and his younger brother leave their home in Puerto Rico to go live with their aunt in Northern California, where a ghost from an unsolved crime and Javi's new-found psychokinetic powers make their adjustment all the harder. |
Ortiz |
An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio |
Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American surroundings. |
Pomerantz |
The Outside Dog |
Marisol, who lives in Puerto Rico, wants a dog very much but her grandfather will not let her have one, until a skinny mutt wins him over. |
Rice |
Crazy Loco |
A collection of nine stories about Mexican American kids growing up in the Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas. |
Rodriguez |
It Doesn’t Have to be This Way: A Barrio Story |
Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life. |
Ryan |
Esperanza Rising |
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. |
Saldena |
The Jumping Tree |
Rey, a Mexican American living with his close-knit family in a Texas town near the Mexican border, describes his transition from boy to young man. |
Soto |
Crazy Weekend |
After their photograph of a robbery is published in the newspaper, Hector and Mando find themselves pursued by two goofy thieves. |
Soto |
Local News |
A collection of thirteen short stories about the everyday lives of Mexican American young people in California's Central Valley. |
Soto |
Snapshots from the Wedding |
Maya, the flower girl, describes a Mexican American wedding through snapshots of the day's events, beginning with the procession to the altar and ending with her sleeping after the dance. |
Soto |
Summer on Wheels |
Hector and his best friend Mondo enjoy many exciting adventures when they take a six-day bike trip from their East Los Angeles neighborhood to the Santa Monica beach during summer vacation. |
Tamar |
Alphabet City Ballet |
Living in a poor Puerto Rican family complicates life for ten-year-old Marisol when she realizes that pursuing her love for ballet may expose her brother to danger. |
