RIYL+Hispanic+Americans

__ The Alchemist __ by Paulo Coelho __ Always Running __ by Luis Rodriguez __ Baseball in April and Other Stories __ by Gary Soto __ Before We Were Free __ by Julia Alvarez __ Bless Me, Ultima __ by Rudolfo Anaya __ Dizzy in Your Eyes __ by Pat Mora __ Esperanza Rising __ by Pam Muñoz Ryan __ Esperanza’s Box of Saints __ by Maria Amparo Escandón __ The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped __ by Yxta Maya Muray __ The House of the Spirits __ by Isabel Allende __ House On Mango Street __ by Sandra Cisneros __ How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents __ by Julia Alvarez __ Hunger of Memory __ by Richard Rodriguez __ Illegal __ by Bettina Restrepo __ Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen __ by Reymundo Sanchez __ Like Water For Chocolate __ by Laura Esquivel __ Locas __ by Yxta Maya Muray __ Love in the Time of Cholera __ by Gabriel García Márquez __ One Hundred Years of Solitude __ by Gabriel García Márquez __ Parrot in the Oven __ by Victor Martinez __ Rain of Gold __ by Victor Villaseñor __ So Hard to Say __ by Alex Sanchez __ Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz __ by Mona Ruiz __ When I Was Puerto Rican __ by Esmeralda Santiago

Illegal by Bettina Restrepo and Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya We were here by Matt de la Peña New York : Delacorte Press, ©2009. Efrain's secret by Sofia Quintero New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©2010. Riding invisible by Sandra Alonzo; Nathan Huang New York : Hyperion, ©2010. Carmen : an urban adaptation of the opera by Walter Dean Myers; Georges Bizet New York : Egmont USA, 2011. You don't have a clue : Latino mystery stories for teens by Sarah Cortez; Houston, Tex. : Pinata Books, ©2011. Putting makeup on the fat boy by Bil Wright New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, ©2011. Rogelia's house of magic by Jamie Martinez Wood New York : Delacorte Press, ©2008 Posted to YALSABK 01/26/12 //90 Miles to Havana// by Enrique Flores Dreaming in Cuban by Christina Garcia Homeboyz by Lawrence Alan Sitomer The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez by Lawrence Alan Sitomer Pefect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction and Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa

YALSA and REFORMA developed a reading list with titles featuring teens with Latino/a backgrounds, as well as a reading list of popular titles available in Spanish. Through a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, we created a brochure called Lee por el gusto de leer, which you can download at __ [|http://www.ala.org/yalsa/professionaltools/handouts#teenreading] __.

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