Hispanic Heritage Month: A Reading List

Toolkit

As we kick off Hispanic Heritage Month, we are thrilled to share an updated list of books we love, written and illustrated by and about Latinx authors and characters. We are so excited to dive into these powerful stories, poems, and nonfiction pieces across the grade bands and think you will be, too!

Elementary School:

● Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina
● Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown
● Islandborn by Junot Diaz
● Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
● Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell
● Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tontatiuh
● Drum Drum Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle
● Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
● Ana María Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle by Hilda Eunice Burgos

Middle School:

● Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
● 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
● The First Rule of Punk by Celia Pérez
● Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
● The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
● When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmerelda Santiago
● Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
● Sal and Gabby Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
● The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
● Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
● We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
● Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA by Iris Morales
● The Epic Fail of Arturro Zamorra by Pablo Cartaya
● Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina

High School:

● The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
● The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
● The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
● One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
● I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
● The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
● How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
● Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
● Days and Night of Love and War by Eduardo Galeano
● Bright Dead Things by Ada Límon
● The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda