Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends.
Mexican Americans
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Author:Soto, GarySummary: -
Author:Lambeth, DougSummary:Roger Donnelly's best friend says that Jesus and the Virgin Mary have started talking to him. Jesse Montoya is Roger's all-time best pal, and he swears he's having visions, and can work miracles. Roger has stood by Jesse since the first...
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Author:Martín, PedroSummary:A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir--adapted for audio--about a Mexican-American boy's family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico to live with them. Pedro Martin has...
- Author:Straight, SusanSummary:
A California epic following several native, diverse Californians grasping for air in a world that continues to marginalize them.
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Author:Tripp, ValerieSummary:Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mamá died a year ago. When Mamá's sister, Tía Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are...
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Author:Soto, GarySummary:Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them excape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
- Author:Oshiro, MarkSummary:
San Francisco and Orangevale may be in the same state, but for Héctor Muñoz, they might as well be a million miles apart. Back home, being gay didn't mean feeling different. At Héctor's new school, he couldn't feel more alone. When...
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Author:Lopez, JackSummary:Surfing is Juan Barrela's life but when his best friend Jamie faces a violent home situation, the tenth-grader steals his mother's car and drives with Jamie's sister Amber to Mexico to help her brother hide until tragedy strikes the...
- Author:Kemp, Laekan ZeaSummary:
When musicians Aarón and Mia cross paths, they work together to try and overcome their stage fright. But soon they'll realize there's something much scarier than getting up on stage, falling in love with a broken heart.
- Author:Ryan, Pam MuñozSummary:
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of...
- Author:Cisneros, ErnestoSummary:
Winner of the Pura Belpré Award! "We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness....
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Author:Soto, GarySummary:When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
- Author:Casares, OscarSummary:
These nine stories follow a collection of unforgettable characters trying to get by while living in the South Texas border town of Brownsville.
- Author:Anaya, Rudolfo A.Summary:
Tony faces the daunting prospect of growing up amidst constant religious and cultural uncertainty. His mother is a devoted Catholic, but her influence is challenged by Ultima--a woman with magical healing powers. As Tony follows his own...
- Author:Perkins, MitaliSummary:
From award-winning author Mitali Perkins and comes Between Us and Abuela , a timely debut audiobook about love overcoming the border fences between Mexico and the United States. It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is...
- Author:Sáenz, Benjamin AlireSummary:
Ari has spent all of high school burying who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior year to be the same. But something in him cracked open when he fell in love with Dante, and he can't go back. Suddenly...
- Author:Sáenz, Benjamin AlireSummary:
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending...
- Author:Garza Villa, JonnySummary:
"[Avi] Roque's warm and musical narration is utter perfection. They capture Ander and Santi's fear with vivid immediacy and also infuse their voices with bubbly happiness. In moments of tenderness, their breath catches....
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Author:Castro, JuliánSummary:A candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America from Julián Castro, the keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, former San Antonio mayor, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, that chronicles his journey from...
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