Books for Hispanic Heritage Month
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Books for Teens
- Acevedo, Elizabeth – The Poet X
- Alvarez, Julia - Before We Were Free, How the García Girls Lost their Accents
- Anaya, Rudolfo A - Bless Me, Ultima
- Cisneros, Sandra - The House on Mango Street
- De la Peña, Matt - Curse of the Ancients
- De la Peña, Matt - The Living
- Draper, Sharon M - Romiette and Julio
- Elkeles, Simone - Perfect Chemistry
- Herrera, Juan Felipe - Laughing Out Loud, I fly : Poems in English and Spanish
- Medina, Meg - The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
- Medina, Meg - Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
- Osterlund, Anne - Salvation
- Ruiz Zafón, Carlos - The Shadow of the Wind
- Santiago, Esmeralda - When I Was Puerto Rican
- Stork, Francisco X. - The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Books for Adults
- Allende, Isabel - The House of the Spirits
- Amado, Jorge - Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
- Anderson, Jon Lee - Che: A Revolutionary Life
- Bolaño, Roberto - 2666
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Collected Fictions
- Cepeda, Raquel - Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
- Coelho, Paulo - The Alchemist
- Corchado, Alfredo - Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into the Darkness
- Cortázar, Julio - Hopscotch
- Díaz, Junot - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Esquivel, Laura - Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
- Fuentes, Carlos - The Death of Artemio Cruz
- García Márquez, Gabriel - Love in the Time of Cholera
- García Márquez, Gabriel - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Hijuelos, Oscar - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel
- Kurlansky, Mark - The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macorís
- Neruda, Pablo - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
- Neuman, André - Traveler of the Century
- Puig, Manuel - Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
- Ronstadt, Linda - Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
- Sotomayor, Sonia - My Beloved World
- Vargas Llosa, Mario - The Discreet Hero
- Vargas Llosa, Mario - Feast of the Goat
- Zambrano, Mario Alberto - Lotería: A Novel
- Zambra, Alejandro - Ways of Going Home
Books in Spanish for Adults
- Allende, Isabel - El Juego de Ripper
- Azuela, Mariano - Los de Abajo: Novela de la Revolución Mexicana
- Bioy Casares, Adolfo - La Invención de Morel
- Bolaño, Roberto - 2666
- Cisneros, Sandra - La Casa en Mango Street
- Coelho, Paulo - Adulterio
- Cortázar, Julio - Rayuela
- Díaz, Junot - Así Es Como la Pierdes
- Dueñas, Maria - El Tiempo Entre Costuras
- Esquivel, Laura - Como Agua para Chocolate: Novela de Entregas Mensuales con Recetas, Amores y Remedios Caseros
- Franco Ramos, Jorge - El Mundo de Afuera
- Fuentes, Carlos - La Muerte de Artemio Cruz
- Gamboa, Santiago - Necropolis
- García, Cristina - Soñar en Cubano
- García Márquez, Gabriel - El Otoño del Patriarca
- Mastretta, Ángeles - Arrancame la Vida
- Montero, Rosa - La Ridícula Idea de no Volver a Verte
- Neruda, Pablo - Antología General
- Ramírez, Sergio - La Fugitiva
- Ruiz Zafón, Carlos - La Sombra del Viento
- Sacheri, Eduardo - El Secreto de sus Ojos
- Serrano, Marcela - Diez Mujeres
- Vargas Llosa, Mario - El Héroe Discreto
- Vásquez, Juan Gabriel - El Ruido de las Cosas al Caer
- Volpi, Jorge - La Tejedora de Sombras