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Latinx Pride

In this booklist, you’ll find a range of titles — young adult novels by award-winning authors, bilingual poetry, biography, memoir — celebrating Latinx culture and examining the immigrant experience.

Young boy near Miami cityscape

The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora

Pablo Cartaya
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2018
Young girl singing and jumping

The First Rule of Punk

Celia C. Pérez
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2018
Young girl looking over fence of detention center

Land of the Cranes

Aida Salazar
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2020
Young woman at school dance

Merci Suárez Can’t Dance

Meg Medina
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2021
Young boy on platform between two speeding trains

Tight

Torrey Maldonado
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2018
Hands holding up string around a butterfly

Before We Were Free

Julia Alvarez
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2018
Two young women, one in a city and one on an island

Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2020
Young man on empty streets

Disappeared

Francisco X. Stork
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Mystery / Crime, Thriller / Horror
Published:
2017
Young woman's steady gaze

Furia

Yamile Saied Méndez
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2020
Pride and Prejudice Remix

Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix

Ibi Zoboi
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Classics, Fiction
Published:
2019
Hand reaching up to the sky in front of Puerto Rican flags

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

Sonia Manzano
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2012
Graffiti on school locker

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

Meg Medina
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2014
Your Heart My Sky

Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger

Margarita Engle
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2021
Last Cuentista book cover

The Last Cuentista

Donna Barba Higuera
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Science fiction / Dystopian
Published:
2021
Mexican WhiteBoy

Mexican WhiteBoy

Matt de la Peña
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2008
mananaland

Mañanaland

Pam Muñoz Ryan
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fairy Tales, Folktales and Myths, Fantasy, Fiction
Published:
2020
Burn Baby Burn Book Cover

Burn Baby Burn

Meg Medina
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2018
So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez

So Hard to Say

Alex Sanchez
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction, Romance
Published:
2006
Picture of Sonia Sotomayor as a child and an adult

The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA
Genre:
Autobiography and Memoir
Published:
2018
We Are Not from Here

We Are Not From Here

Jenny Torres Sanchez
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2020
Crossing the Wire

Crossing the Wire

Will Hobbs
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2007
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States by Lori Marie Carlson

Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States

Lori Carlson
Age Level:
YA, Middle Grade
Genre:
Poetry
Published:
2005
Young woman standing in front of white brick wall

Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From

Jennifer De Leon
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2020
Young boy racing across train tracks

Illegal: A Disappeared Book

Francisco X. Stork
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Mystery / Crime, Thriller / Horror
Published:
2020
With the Fire on High

With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
2019
Theme:
Hispanic and Latino history and culture
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA