2023-2024 Tejas Star List

The Tejas Star Reading list is a list of recommended Spanish and bilingual titles designed to encourage children ages 5 to 12 to explore Spanish, bilingual, and multicultural books and to discover the cognitive and economic benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism.

Updated July 5, 2023
Lewisville Public Library
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La Bendición de Zahra: Una Historia de Ramadán
Shamsi, Shirin
Paper Book
Chicago Public Library's Best Picture Books, International Latino Book Awards Honorable Mention and Children's Book Council Hot Off the Press Reading List in 2022! Zahra hugs her cherished teddy bear and prays that Ramadan will bring her a longed-for sister. When her bear...
Change sings :
Gorman, Amanda,
Paper Book
A lyrical picture book debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long   "I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song....
Change sings : a children's anthem
Gorman, Amanda
Paper Book
A lyrical picture book debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long   "I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song....
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...
La dama de los tiburones : la historia verdadera de co?mo Eugenie Clard se convirtio? en la ma?s maliente cienti?fica del oce?no
Keating, Jess.
Paper Book
This is the story of Eugenie Clark, a woman who dared to dive, defy, and discover. Through her accomplishments, she taught the world that sharks were to be admired rather than feared and that women can do anything they set their minds to. An inspiring story by critically-acclaimed zoologist Jess...
Latinitas : una celebración de 40 soñadoras audaces
Menéndez, Juliet
Paper Book
In this Spanish edition of her author-illustrator debut Latinitas, Juliet Menéndez celebrates inspiring Latinas and Latin American women. Descubre cómo cuarenta latinas influyentes se convirtieron en las mujeres que hoy celebramos. En esta colección de biografías cortas...
My town = Mi pueblo
Solis, Nicholas
Paper Book
In this bilingual picture book, cousins from opposite sides of the border visit each other's towns and delight in their similarities and differences. Two cousins live in two towns, separated by a river. But there is also a bigger divide-the US-Mexico border-which means they live...
Tía Fortuna's new home
Behar, Ruth
Paper Book
A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tia move away from her beloved Miami apartment. When Estrella's Tia Fortuna has to say goodbye to her longtime Miami apartment building, The Seaway, to move to an assisted living...
Soldado Por la Igualdad:: José de la Luz Sáenz y la Gran Guerra
Tonatiuh, Duncan
DVD
Follow the life of Luz, a Mexican-American war hero who fought for equality and created the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the United States.
Soldier for equality : José de la Luz Saénz and the Great War
Tonatiuh, Duncan
DVD
Follow the life of Luz, a Mexican-American war hero who fought for equality and created the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the United States.
Vâamonos
Weill, Cynthia.
Paper Book

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