Hispanic Heritage Month: Books for Teens

Updated August 30, 2024
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Our shadows have claws : 15 Latin American monster stories
Méndez, Yamile Saied
Paper Book
From zombies to cannibals to star-crossed, shapeshifting lovers, this cross-genre anthology written by superstar YA authors from across the Latin American diaspora offers bold new thrills for every monster fan. In these fifteen original short stories, bloodthirsty vampires are hunted...
Through the night like a snake : Latin American horror stories
Paper Book
A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist...A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brink...A sex worker discovers a dark secret among the nuns of the pampas...The mountain fog is...
Latino Americans : the 500-year legacy that shaped a nation
Suarez, Ray
Paper Book
Chronicling the rich and varied history of Latinos in the United States, this companion to the PBS documentary miniseriesvividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of our country. Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history of...
¡Pleibol! : in the barrios and the big leagues = en los barrios y las grandes ligas
Salazar-Porzio, Margaret
Paper Book
The dual-language (English and Spanish) ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas takes readers on a journey into the heart and history of U.S. Latina/o baseball. The extraordinary stories of Latinas/os alongside the artifacts of their remarkable...
Crashing into you
Callen, Rocky
Paper Book
In this fiercely moving YA romance novel, Leti Rivera's love of street racing is put to the test when tragedy strikes her family and threatens to tear her apart from the boy she's falling for. Seventeen-year-old Leti Rivera dreams of becoming a famous female street racer. Her...
Latinitas : celebrating 40 big dreamers
Menéndez, Juliet
Paper Book
Dream big with the Latinitas in Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers. Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today! In this collection of short biographies from all over Latin America and across the United States, Juliet Menéndez explores the...
Bravo! : poems about amazing Hispanics
Engle, Margarita
Paper Book
Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot--the Latinos featured in Bravo!, by author Margarita Engle and illustrator Rafael López, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a...

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