Hispanic Heritage Month Reading Recommendations
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Picture Books: |
● If Dominican Were a Color by Sili Recio ● Bright Star by Yuyi Morales ● Dinner on Domingos by Alexandra Katona ● My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Qunitero |
Middle Grade Chapter Books: |
● The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera ● Loteria by Karla Arenas Valenti ● Santiago's Road Home by Alexandra Diaz |
Young Adult Books: |
● Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas ● We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez ● The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo ● I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez |
Non-Fiction for Kids & Young Adults: |
● Nuestra America: 30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United States by Sabrina Vourvoulias ● Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menendez ● Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States by Warren Binford |
General Fiction: |
● Dominicana by Angie Cruz ● Gordo by Jaime Cortez ● Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez ● Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
General Non-Fiction: |
● ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer ● The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio ● Postcolonial Love Poems: Poems by Natalie Diaz ● Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History by Elizabeth Ferrer ● An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz |
MSU Library Resources
The MSU Library has compiled an extensive list of its available resources on Hispanic and Latino topics. Access the guide through their website.