Younger Children

• Altman, Linda Jacobs. Amelia’s Road, 1993. K-2.* Daughter of migrant workers moves from harvest to harvest dreaming of a stable home.
• Anzaldua, Gloria. Friends From the Other Side=Amigos del Otro Lado. 2-3. Bilingual. A Mexican American girl befriends a boy crossing the river to Texas with his mother .
• Argueta, Manilo. Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes-Los Perros Magicos de Los Valcanes, 1990. 2-3. Bilingual. Magic dogs living in the volcanoes of El Salvador protect the villagers.
• Hewett, Joan. Hector Lives in the United States Now, 1990. 2-4. Mexican boy's family seeks amnesty.
• Mora, Pat. A Birthday Basket for Tia, 1992. K-2. Cecilia prepares a surprise gift for her great-aunt’s birthday.
• Rohmer, Harriet and Anchondo, Mary, How we Came to the Fifth World, 1988. 2-3. Bilingual. Aztec myth of the creation by the deities -Water, Air, Fire and Earth.

Fiction

• Soto, Gary. Baseball in April and Other Stories, 1990. 7-8. Mexican-American youngsters adventures.
• Crazy Weekend, 1994. 5-6. Two goofy thieves pursue Hector and Mando. Spanish glossary.
• Local News, 1993. 6-7. Daily lives of Mexican-American youth in California. Spanish glossary.
• Pacific Crossing, 1992. 4-6. Mexican-American teenager spends a summer with a host family in Japan. Japanese glossary.
• The Skirt, 1992. 2-4. Miata leaves her dance skirt on the school bus and uses her wits to get it back.
• Taking Sides, 1991. Teenage basketball player moves from the inner city to a suburban neighborhood. Spanish glossary .
• Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, 1989. 9-12. Poems and stories of a young girl growing up in Chicago's Hispanic quarter.

Poetry

• Carlson, Lori M., Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States, 1994.
• Soto, Gary. A Fire in My Hands: A Book of Poems, 1990. Growing up in California.
• Neighborhood Odes, 1992.

Non-Fiction

• Aliotta, Jerome J. The Puerto Ricans, The Peoples of North America, 1991. 5-7.
• Arnold, Sandra Martin. Alicia Alonso: First Lady of the Ballet, 1993. 4-6. Cuban ballerina.
• Bandon, Alexandra. Mexican Americans, Footsteps to America, 1993. 4-6. Narratives.
• Catalano, Julie. The Mexican Americans, The Peoples of North America, 1988. 5-7.
• Cedeno, Maria E. Cesar Chavez: Labor Leader, 1993. 4.
• de Ruiz, Dana Catharine, and Richard Larios. La Causa: The Migrant Farmworkers’ Story in Stories of America, Alex Haley, 1993. 3-5. California.
• Fernandez-Shaw, Carlos M. The Hispanic Presence in North America From 1492 to Today, 1991. 6-10. State-by-state study.
• Garver, Susan, and Paula McGuire. Coming to North America: From Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1981. 5-6.
• Gilbert, Thomas W. Roberto Clemente, 1991. 5-7. Story of Puerto Rican baseball hero.
• Kanellos, Nicolas. The Hispanic-American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the US, 1993. Population, education, law, politics, religion, literature, art and business.
• Lankerford, Mary D. Quinceaãera: A Latina’s Journey to Womanhood, 1994. 2-4. Girl's rite of passage at 15.
• Sinnott, Susan. Extraordinary Hispanic Americans, 1991. 6.
• Telgen, Diane. Notable Hispanic American Women, 1993. 9-12.

*Indicates appropriate grade level.

Complete bibliography by Amy Goldenberg, 1995, available at http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/Latino%5FBibliography.html.