Books for Hispanic Heritage Month

Check out these great reads for National Hispanic Heritage Month

Explore this page to find good reads at the library for Hispanic Heritage Month. These books consist of a mix of work by Hispanic authors and works about Hispanic peoples and cultures.

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Books for Children

Pre-K

Arena, Jen - Marta, Big and Small
Delacre, Lulu - How Far Do You Love Me?
Emberly, Rebecca - My numbers = Mis numeros
Ginger, Guy -Perros! Perros! = Dogs! Dogs!
Mora, Pat - Sweet Dreams = Dulce Suenos
Pinkney, Sandra - I Am Latino: The Beauty in Me
Tafolla, Carmen - Fiesta Babies
Walsh, Ellen - Mouse paint = Pintura de ratón
Weill, Cynthia - Opuestos: Mexican folk art opposites in English and Spanish

Kindergarten

Brown, Monica - Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match = Marisol McDonald no combina
Gonzalez, Maya - Mi colores, mi mundo = My colors, my world
Martinez-Neal, Juana – Alma and how she got her name
Medina, Meg - Mango, Abuela, and Me
Montes, Marisa - Los Gatos Black on Halloween
Morales, Yuyi – Dreamers, (Also available in Spanish: Soñadores), Nino Wrestles the World , Viva Frida (Call number Juv 92 Kahlo)
Soto, Gary - Chato and the Party Animals
Tafolla, Carmen - What Can You Do With a Paleta? Que Puedes hacer con una paleta?
Vamos, Samantha - The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred

Grades 1 - 2

Ada, Alma Flora - I Love Saturdays y domingos
Brown, Monica - Tito Puente, Mambo King = Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo
Chambers, Veronica - Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
Deedy, Carmen Agra - Martina, the Beautiful Cockroach: a Cuban Folktale (Call number 398.2 Deedy), (Also available in Spanish: Martina, una cucarachita muy linda: un cuento cubano)
Dorros, Arthur - Abuela
Elya, Susan - Fire! Fuego! Brave Bomberos
Medina, Meg - Mango, Abeula, and Me
Mora, Pat - Marimba! Animales from A to Z, Tomás and the library lady (Also available in Spanish: Tomás y la señora de la biblioteca)
Rivera-Ashford, Roni Capin - My tata's remedies = Los remedios de mi tata
Sacre, Antonio - A Mango in the Hand: A Story Told Through Proverbs
Sciurba, Katie - Oye, Celia!
Tonatiuh, Duncan - Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: a migrant's tale
Thong, Roseanne - Green is a Chile Pepper: a book of colors
Viesti, Joseph - Celebrate! In Central America

Grades 3 - 5

Ada, Alma Flor - Dancing Home, Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba
Alvarez, Julia - How Tia Lola Came to Stay
Bernier-Grand, Carmen - Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina, Diego: Bigger than Life
Campoy, Isabel - Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection
Dominguez, Angela – Stella Diaz has something to say
Garza, Xavier - Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel
Gonzalez, Lucia - The Bossy Gallito
Herrera, Juan Felipe - Calling the Doves/El Encanto De Las Palomas
Jokulsson, Illugi - Messi
Krull, Kathleen - Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Lopez, Rafael - Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Marcovitz, Hal - Puerto Rican Americans
Medina, Meg – Merci Suarez Changes Gears
Merrill, Yvonne Y. - Hands-on Latin America: Art Activities for All Ages
Novesky, Amy - Me, Frida
Osa, Nancy - Cuba 15: a Novel
Ryan, Pam Muñoz - The Dreamer
Tonatiuh, Duncan - Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Winter, Jonah - Roberto Clemente: Pride Of The Pittsburgh Pirates

Grades 6 - 8

Ada, Alma Flor - Yes! We are Latinos
Agosín, Marjorie - I Lived on Butterfly Hill
Bowles, Davd - They call me Güero : a border kid's poems
Délano, Poli - When I Was a Boy Neruda Called Me Policarpo
Engle, Margarita - The Firefly Letters, Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
Herrera, Juan Felipe - Jabberwalking, Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes
Ilan Stavans - Wachale! Poetry and Prose about Growing Up Latino in America
Joseph, Lynn - The Color of My Words
Marcovitz, Hal - Puerto Ricans
Nye, Naomi Shihab (ed.) - The Tree Is Older than You Are
Pellegrino, Marge - Journey of Dreams
Ryan, Pam Muñoz - Becoming Naomi León, Esperanza Rising (Also available in Spanish: Esperanza renace)
Soto, Gary - Baseball in April and Other Stories
Veciana–Suarez, Ana - Flight to Freedom