Staff selections will help readers of all ages celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month-- and beyond!
Revised
August 29, 2025
Whether you're celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month or just looking for a great read, check out these staff-selected titles for little kids, big kids, tweens, teens and adults.
Little kids
Picture books
Menudo Sunday
2025
PICTURE BOOK Águila, María
A family gathers for their Sunday menudo tradition, and through playful mishaps and counting (in Spanish and English), they learn the value of teamwork and love.
New Shoes for Leo
2025
PICTURE BOOK Deedy, Lauren
Every year William's family sends a package of food, clothing and medicine to their family in Cuba, but this year they realize they have forgotten to include new shoes for Leo.
Lexile level
510AD
Fix-It Familia
2025
PICTURE BOOK Diaz, Lucky
Chavo and his family are always there to lend a helping hand. So when the main parade float crashes at a neighborhood fiesta, Chavo has the perfect plan to help his community.
Desert Song
2024
PICTURE BOOK Kemp, Laekan
A family sings and plays music on a desert evening, in harmony with the nearby wildlife and the ancestors above.
Big kids
Picture books
Barrio Rising
2024
PICTURE BOOK Águila, María
Community members, primarily of Mexican-American descent, band together and protest the construction of a police station on designated parkland and transform it into a vibrant cultural hub.
Lexile level
900L
My Daddy Is A Cowboy
2024
While a young Panamanian American girl and her father share "just-us" time on an early morning horseback ride around their town, he tells her cowboy stories and she realizes she is a cowboy, too.
Morgan H loved this! Find out why »
Adela's Mariachi Band
2024
PICTURE BOOK Vega, Denise
Filled with funny instrument sounds and Spanish vocabulary, this celebration of Mexican music follows Adela as she tries to prove she's ready to join her family's mariachi band, which results in musical-- and magical-- mayhem!
Lexile level
590L
Graphic novels
Hillside Valley (Vol. 1): Speak Up, Santiago!
2025
J GRAPHIC Anta, Julio
Santi is excited to spend the summer in Hillside Valley, meeting local kids, eating his Abuela's delicious food and exploring, but Santi doesn't speak Spanish and it seems everyone he meets does.
Lexile level
390L
Books
Picture Purrfect
2024
J FICTION Burgos, Hilda
To go on an art club field trip, Miguel decides to ditch his responsibilities at his family’s bodega and hide the truth from his parents. When things come crashing down, he finds a friend in his newly adopted cat, Lolo.
Lexile level
620L
Chapter books
Wrath of the Rain God
2024
J FICTION Valenti, Karla
Moving from Mexico to Chicago for their dad’s new job, nine-year-old twins Emma and Martin are gifted a book that transports them into Mexican legend where they must stop the god of rain from destroying the legendary city of Texcoco.
Tweens
Graphic novels
Monster Locker (Vol. 1)
2024
J GRAPHIC Aguirre, Jorge
Pablo Ortiz, an anxious sixth-grader, had no desire to be the hero called to defeat the Aztec goddess who came through a portal-- his locker!-- from the monster realm. Good thing his friends and his abuela have what he needs to succeed.
Chapter books
Danilo Was Here
2025
J FICTION Burgess, Tamika
Danilo's baseball talent lands him the opportunity to train in the States and find his absentee father, who may be the key to saving the family he abandoned as they deal with the devastating effects of the U.S. military invasion of Panamá.
Alebrijes
2023
When 13-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive reg
Lexi B loved this! Find out why »
Cousins in the Time of Magic
2025
Cousins Jorge, Camila and Siggy are transported through a time portal in their aunt's yard to 1862 and must race to deliver a sword to General Ignacio Zaragoza in time for the historic Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
Susan A loved this! Find out why »
Books
What Fell from the Sky
2025
J FICTION Cuevas, Adrianna
Pineda, a Cuban American boy, must join forces with his friends to help reunite an alien girl with her parents while their Texas town is swarming with military officers.
Teens
Books
Rosa By Any Other Name
2025
T FICTION Alcaraz, Hailey
In this "Romeo and Juliet"-inspired retelling set during the civil rights era, a Mexican American girl is driven to join a movement for justice after her white classmate and best friend from the barrio are tragically murdered.
Island Creatures
2025
T FICTION Engle, Margarita
Cuban childhood friends Vida and Adán rediscover each other in Florida where they work together to protect endangered animals while navigating their complicated homelives.
Canto Contigo
2024
T FICTION Garza Villa Jonny
When a mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot, but what he gets instead is a tenacious current lead with a very familiar, very kissable face.
Emily K loved this! Find out why »
The Brujos of Borderland High
2024
T FICTION Laurel, Gume
After a painful breakup, Alejandro, a gay teen brujo, struggles to move on, finding solace in his tarot cards and piano. When a time-traveling demon threatens his school's recital, Alejandro must focus on the future to save the concert and potentially find love again.
David C loved this! Find out why »
The Wicked Bargain
2023
T FICTION Novoa, Gabe
Hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice, transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate Mar teams up with the most unlikely allies to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father and retrieve his soul from el Diablo.
Lexile level
860L
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Adults
Books
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
2024
FICTION Alvarez, Julia
Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
Malinalli
2025
FICTION Chapa, Veronica
A kidnapped Nahua girl, enslaved and thrust into the heart of Spanish conquest, uses her wit, magic and resilience to carve her own destiny and rewrite her legacy as both traitor and goddess amidst a clash of empires.
Say Hello To My Little Friend
2024
FICTION Crucet Jennine
In Miami, a young man attempts to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy.
Latino Poetry
2024
811.008 LAT
This anthology collects the works of more than 180 poets, each bearing witness to the beauty and power of Latinx poetry; its profound engagement with pasts both mythical and historical; and its vision of a nation enriched by stories of immigrants, exiles, refugees and their descendants.
Piñata
2023
Returning to New York with her daughters after supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey in Mexico, Carmen Sanchez soon discovers that something evil and unexplainable has followed them home-- and it may already be too late to escape what's been awakened.
Hilary H loved this! Find out why »
My Side of the River
2024
305.868 GUT
Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage children affected by broken immigration laws.
Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America
2024
B Miranda, Luis
Revealing a deep understanding of Latino culture and building community to change our world for the better, a veteran of New York and national politics who embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrants narrates his life, career and experience.
Archive of Unknown Universes
2025
FICTION Reyes, Ruben
Follows two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war-- a stunning exploration of the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past and the endurance of love.