Hispanic Heritage Month 2009 Recommended Reading List
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Doña Flor |
Pat Mora |
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My Mexico |
Tony Johnston |
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Salsa Stories |
Lulu Delacre |
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Abuela |
Arthur Dorros |
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Gathering the Sun |
AlmaFlor Ada |
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Moon Rope |
Lois Ehlert |
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Pablo's Tree |
Pat Mora |
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Chato's Kitchen |
Gary Soto |
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Yagua Days |
Cruz Martel |
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Xochtil and the Flowers |
Jorge Argueta |
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New Shoes for Silvia |
Johanna Hurwitz |
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The Spirit of Tío Fernando |
Janice Levy |
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Hispanic Scientists: Ellen Ochoa, Carlos A. Ramirez, |
Jetty St. John |
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I Am Latino: The Beauty of Me |
Sandra Pinkney |
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Elementary (Grades 3–5) |
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Family Pictures |
Carmen Lomas Garza |
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Extraordinary Hispanic Americans |
Susan Sinnott |
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The Bossy Gallito |
Lucia Gonzalez |
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Love to Mamá: A Tribute to Mothers |
Pat Mora |
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Calling the Doves/El Encanto De Las Palomas |
Juan Felipe Herrera |
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Family Pictures |
Carmen Lomas Garza |
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Iguanas in the Snow and other Winter Poems |
Francisco X. Alarcón |
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Under the Royal Palms: a Childhood in Cuba |
Alma Flor Ada |
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Learning About Determination From the Life of Gloria Estefan |
Meanne Stazzabosco |
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Ivan Rodriguez |
Tony DeMarco |
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Emiliano Zapata: Revolutionary and Champion of Poor Farmers |
R. Conrad Stein |
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Alicia Alonso: First Lady of the Ballet |
Sandra Martin Arnold |
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The Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans |
Nicholas E. Meyer |
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Famous Hispanic Americans |
Janet Morey |
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Ellen Ochoa: The First Hispanic Woman Astronaut |
Romero Maritza |
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Middle School (Grades 6–8) |
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César Chávez: A Voice for Farmworkers |
Bárbara C. Cruz |
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When I was a Boy Neruda Called Me Policarpo |
Poli Délano |
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Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States |
Lori Carlson, Editor |
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Crossing the Wire |
Will Hobbs |
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Breaking Through |
Francisco Jiménez |
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Under the Same Sky |
Cynthia DeFelico |
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Struggling to Become an American |
Robin Santos Doak |
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The Color of My Words |
Lynn Joseph |
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Wachale! Poetry and Prose about Growing Up Latino in America |
Ilan Stavans, Editor |
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Extraordinary Hispanic Americans |
Susan Sinnott |
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Baseball in April and Other Stories |
Gary Soto |
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Call Me Maria: a Novel |
Judith Ortiz Cofer |
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Hispanic, Female and Young: An Anthology |
Edited by Phyllis Tashlik |
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My Daughter, My Son, the Eagle, the Dove: An Aztec Chant |
Ana Castillo |
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Cuba 15 |
Nancy Osa |
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Becoming Naomi León |
Pam Muñoz Ryan |
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The Tree is Older than You Are |
Edited by Naomi Shihab Nye |
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Petty Crimes |
Gary Soto |
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Flight to Freedom |
Ana Veciana–Suarez |
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Among the Volcanoes |
Omar S. Castañeda |
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High School (9–12) |
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Journey of the Sparrows |
Fran Leeper Buss |
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Jesse |
Gary |
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Yo! |
Julia |
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El Bronx Remembered |
Nicholasa Mohr |
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Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish |
Juan Felipe Herrera |
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How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents |
Julia |
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Bless Me, Ultima |
Rudolfo |
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When I Was Puerto Rican |
Esmeralda Santiago |
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Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States |
Lori Marie Carlson |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabriel García Márquez |
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American Chica |
Maria |
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Taking Sides |
Gary |
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Before We Were Free |
Julia |
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Riding Low on the Streets of Gold: Latino Literature for Young Adults |
edited, with an introduction Judith Ortiz Cofer |
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Growing Up Inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination |
Nicholasa Mohr |
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Curse of the Chupa Cabra |
Rudolfo |
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Accidental Love |
Gary |
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The Importance of a Piece of Paper: Stories |
Jimmy Santiago Baca |
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Crazy Loco |
David Talbot Rice |
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Adult Reading |
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez |
Richard |
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The Line of the Sun |
Judith Ortiz Cofer |
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Empress of the Splendid Season |
Ơscar |
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In the Time of the Butterflies: A Novel |
Julia |
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Never Through Miami |
Robert |
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Down These Mean Streets |
Piri |
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Our House in the Last World |
Ơscar |
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
Ơscar |
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Collected Fictions |
Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley |
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Shadow without a Name |
Ignacio Padilla, translated by Peter R. Bush & Anne McCleane |
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By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border |
Luis Alberto Urrea |
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Source: Just Read, Florida!
http://www.justreadfamilies.org/Reading/HHM.asp