Teen Hispanic Books

Here are some great books for and about Hispanic teens. Each book is linked to our catalog so you can easily request it. For more ideas here are a couple cool sites to check out:

Library Thing (tag mash YA+Latino)

Austin Public Library’s list

And now our list:

Malin Alegria’s Estrella’s Quinceanera Isabel Allende’s City of the Beasts (book one of the series: Journeys of Jaquar and Eagle) Julia Alvarez’s Finding Miracles Edward Bloor’s Taken Coe Booth’s Tyrell Lori Carlson’s Cool Salsa: bilingual poems on growing up in the United States and Red Hot Salsa: bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street Rosemary Clement-Moore’s Highway to Hell Melisa De La Cruz’s Fresh off the Boat Junot Diaz’s Drown and The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao Martin Espada’s A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen David Hernandez’s Suckerpunch Oscar Hijuelos’ Dark Dude Victor Martinez’s Parrot in the Oven Pam Munoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising Abraham Rodriguez’s Spidertown Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang days in L.A. Benjamin Alire Saenz’s Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood Alex Sanchez’s Getting It Esmerelda Santiago’s When I was Puerto Rican Roberto Santiago’s Boricuas: Infleuntial Puerto Rican Writings: An Anthonology Gary Soto’s Jesse and Accidental Love Piri Thomas’ Down these Mean Streets Coert Voorhees’ The Brothers Torres