Hispanic Heritage Month

While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs.

Beauty, who is of Taino Indian, African and Boricua heritage, was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.

A fictionalized account of a Nahua woman who grew up in Mexico during the early 1900s, became a model for artists, worked with scholars to preserve Nahuatl language and stories, and was known as the "soul of Mexico."

While doing research for her documentary about her cousin Natasha--who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillato--twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Ramirez is transported to Zafa, an island where Dominican myths and legends come to life.

Best friends Isaac and Marco--one athletically gifted and one academically gifted--have more in common than they realize when their goals intersect, forcing them to find a way to support each other so they don't fall short.

Can five overlooked kids make one big difference in this vibrant graphic novel? And they're stuck together when they're forced to complete their school's community service hours. Then they meet someone who truly needs their help, and they must decide whether they are willing to expose their own secrets to help- or if remaining invisible is the only way to survive middle school.

Translation of A Song of Frutas. While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs.

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A magical story of a Guatemalan girl named Juanita, who loved cooking crunchy maize tortillas and counting stars every night.

A tale of a fawn making her way through a landscape that is dangerous, beautiful, and full of potential. A gentle voice urges her onward, to face her fears and challenge obstacles that seek to hold her back.

Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules.

A collection of poetry by Mayan poet Humberto Ak'abal about the vanished world of his childhood. He writes about children, grandfathers, mothers, animals, ghosts, thwarted love, fields, rains, poverty, and death.

Translation of When You Trap a Tiger. When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives.

Examines the impact of the 1959 Cuban Revolution on four children from very different walks of life. In the wake of a new regime in Cuba, Ana, Miguel, Zulema, and Juan learn to find a place for themselves in a world forever changed.

In this wordless graphic novel, when Marisol is sent from her home in Cuba to New York City during the Cuban Revolution, she enters a cold, grey, and largely silent world. As her new caregivers work to reintroduce her to the plants, food, and books she loves, color and language return to her world.

A young girl collects the missing pieces of her origin story from the family of legendary luchadores she's never met. Addie has a big decision to make when her stepfather proposes adoption. As luchadores, the Bravo's legacy is strong.

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Veronica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body.

When four Mexican-American teenagers from Houston travel to Diamond Park to buy a 1959 Chevy Impala from Magana's godfather, something goes very wrong, and one of them, Susi, ends up arrested for murder; convinced that the real killer is a drug trafficker called Anaconda, Flaco and Magana head to Mexico hunting for him to clear Susi's name.

Set in the Monte Vista neighborhood of San Antonio and told in alternating voices, teenaged musicians Aaraon and Mia grow close as they share and struggle to overcome the emotional pain of their troubled home lives.

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