Mexican Americans
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Jesse
$11.99 Read moreIn this new edition of his first young adult novel, Gary Soto paints a moving portrait of seventeen-year-old Jesse, who has left his parents’ home to live with his older brother. These Mexican America… [more below]
- Author: Soto, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0152054251
- Language: English
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Cosechando Esperanza: La Historia de Cesar Chavez
$9.99 Read moreWhen Cesar Chavez led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, he ignited a cause and improved the lives of thousands of migrant farmworkers. But he wasn’t always a leader. As a boy he wa
- Author: Krull, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0152051694
- Language: Spanish
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La Llorona: The Legendary Weeping Woman of Mexico
$9.99 Read moreThe ghost of a weeping woman dressed in white, La Llorona, is often spotted beside bodies of water. People in Mexico and in the southwestern United States have claimed to hear her wailing in the night… [more below]
- Series: Real-Life Ghost Stories
- Author: Peterson, Megan Cooley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1543574793
- Language: English
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What Can You Do with a Paleta?
$18.99 Add to cartWhere the paleta wagon rings its tinkly bell
As she strolls through her barrio, a young girl introduces readers to the frozen, f
and carries a treasure of icy paletas
in every color of the sarape . . .- Series: Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award
- Author: Tafolla, Carmen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1582462216
- Language: English
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Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh
$21.95 Read moreAsian/Pacific American Award for Literature – Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)
Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls’ Lea
- Author: Krishnaswami, Uma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1600602614
- Language: English
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How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories
$22.00 Read moreHow to Date a Flying Mexican is a collection of stories derived from Chicano and Mexican culture but ranging through fascinating literary worlds of magical realism, fairy tales, fables, and dystopian … [more below]
- Series: New Oeste
- Author: Olivas, Daniel A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1647790360
- Language: English
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Rules of Attraction
$14.99 Add to cartIn the second book in Simone Elkeles’ New York Times bestselling YA contemporary romance series, bad boy Carlos Fuentes and good girl Kiara Westford don’t mean to fall for each other . . . but in the
- Series: Perfect Chemistry Novel
- Author: Elkeles, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1619637022
- Language: English
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They Call Her Fregona: A Border Kid’s Poems
$17.99 Add to cartA companion to the Pura Belpr? Honor book They Call Me G?ero
“You can be my boyfriend.” It only takes five words to change G?ero’s life at the end of seventh grade. The summer becomes extra busy as he- Author: Bowles, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593462572
- Language: English
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Again, Essie?
$15.99 Read more“Rafael tries to save his toys from his baby sister, Essie, by building a wall from shoeboxes, toilet paper rolls, and other household objects in this playful exploration of spatial sense and geometry
- Series: Storytelling Math
- Author: Lacika, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 1623542057
- Language: English
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Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
$19.99 Add to cartIn this Pura Belpre award-winning picture book, illustrated by Caldecott Honree Yuyi Morales, acclaimed author Kathleen Krull celebrates Latinx civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. An inspirational book
- Author: Krull, Kathleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0152014373
- Language: English
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Tomas Y La Senora de la Biblioteca (Tomas and the Library Lady Spanish Edition) = Tomas & the Library Lady
$8.99 Add to cartTom s es hijo de trabajadores migratorios. Cada verano, l y su familia viajan a Iowa, desde Tejas, donde pasan largos y dif ciles d as en el campo, durante la temporada de la cosecha de frutas y verd… [more below]
- Author: Mora, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 23 1997
- ISBN10: 0679841733
- Language: Spanish
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The Living
$12.99 Add to cartNewbery Award-winning author Matt de la Pe?a’s The Living is “a rare thing: a plot-driven YA with characters worthy of a John Green novel.” [Entertainment Weekly, A-]
Shy takes the summer job to make- Series: Living
- Author: de la Pe?a, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0385741219
- Language: English
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Goal!
$7.99 Add to cartWhile growing up on the tough streets of Los Angeles, Santiago’s greatest joy is playing soccer. So it is a dream come true when a British scout sees him playing in the park and offers him a trial wit… [more below]
- Author: Rigby, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0152057986
- Language: English
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Chicano Soul: Recordings and History of an American Culture, 10th Anniversary Edition
$34.95 Add to cartIn 2007, Ruben Molina published the first-ever history of Mexican-American soul and R&B music in his book, Chicano Soul: Recordings and History of an American Culture. Ten years later, Chicano Soul re… [more below]
- Author: Molina, Ruben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0896729966
- Language: English
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Chicano Folklore: A Guide to the Folktales, Traditions, Rituals and Religious Practices of Mexican Americans
$28.99 Add to cartDid you know that barrio is a term for a Chicano neighborhood, and that some of the oldest barrios can be found in major U.S. cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago, El Paso, and San Antonio? Or that menud… [more below]
- Author: Castro, Rafaela G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0195146395
- Language: English
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Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America
$19.99 Read more*”This superb anthology of short stories, comics, and poems is fresh, funny, and full of authentic YA voices revealing what it means to be Mexican American . . . Not to be missed.”–SLC, starred revie… [more below]
- Author: Longoria, Margarita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0593204972
- Language: English
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The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2019
$27.95 Read moreThe Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztl?n: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth
- Author: Noriega, Chon A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: February 28 2020
- ISBN10: 089551172X
- Language: English
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Unbreakable
$17.99 Add to cartThe story behind Telemundo’s Jenni Rivera: Mariposa del Barrio series, now streaming. A New York Times bestseller, this is the official biography from the beloved Mexican-American singer who lost her … [more below]
- Author: Rivera, Jenni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1476744750
- Language: English
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Senderos Fronterizos: Breaking Through (Spanish Edition)
$9.99 Add to cartSin amargura ni sentimentalismo, Francisco Jim?nez termina de contar la historia de su juventud en esta conmovedora secuela a Cajas de cart?n.
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jimenez, together with… [more below]- Series: Cajas de Carton #2
- Author: Jim?nez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0618226184
- Language: Spanish
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Buried Onions
$10.99 Add to cartEddie’s father, two uncles, and best friend are all dead, and it’s a struggle for him not to end up the same way. Violence makes Fresno wallow in tears, as if a huge onion were buried beneath the city… [more below]
- Author: Soto, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0152062653
- Language: English
