Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
By: Jennifer De Leon
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-wh…
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1. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By: Erika L. Sánchez
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' hou… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
2. American Street
By: Ibi Zoboi
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun. On the corner of American Stre… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
3. Pointe
By: Brandy Colbert
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Theo is better now. She's eating again, dating guys who are almost appropriate, and well on her way… read more
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4. Big Chicas Don't Cry
By: Annette Chavez Macias
4.22
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Four cousins navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family over the course of one memorable year i… read more
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- audiobook
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Too Soon for Adiós
By: Annette Chavez Macias
4.26
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
From author Annette Chavez Macias comes a heartfelt novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional… read more
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- audiobook
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
6. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
By: Julissa Arce
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more
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- race
- social justice
- audiobook
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
7. Crying in the Bathroom
By: Erika L. Sánchez
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more
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- audiobook
8. Everyone Knows You Go Home
By: Natalia Sylvester
4.03
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
An International Latino Book Award winner. The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"He recognized his own fear in them, and now that he knows what it looks like he sees it everywhere — in the man who pumps gas across the street, in the teenage girls who stumble down the sidewalk, in…"-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home
"there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether it was a burden or a blessing, it was hers to keep. She’d known better than …"-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home
9. Rez Ball
By: Byron Graves
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
10. Rana Joon and the One and Only Now
By: Shideh Etaat
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This lyrical coming-of-age novel for fans of Darius the Great Is Not Okay and On the Come Up, set i… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"...the purpose of the pain is to just feel it, to not run, to let it pass through you, to honor the love you had, so you can let go just a bit and create space for even more love to come your way."-Shideh Etaat, Rana Joon and the One and Only Now
11. Those Pink Mountain Nights
By: Jen Ferguson
3.94
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In her remarkable second novel following her acclaimed debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, which… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
12. Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
By: Jennifer De Leon
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-wh… read more
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- young adult contemporary
- race
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- social issues
- audiobook
13. We Are Not From Here
By: Jenny Torres Sanchez
4.48
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico borde… read more
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- young adult contemporary
- race
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
"We are to Mexico what Mexico is to the States."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"Los sueños y los hombres son para las pendejas."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"You can outrun danger...But you can’t outrun the pain."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"We are luchadores. We are fighters. We are those who dare to try against impossible odds."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
14. Button Pusher
By: Tyler Page
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-driven realistic graphic novel about Tyler, a child who is diagnosed with ADHD and has to … read more
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- family
15. The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
By: David Mura
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain rac… read more
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- race
- social justice
16. Forgive Me Not
By: Jennifer Baker
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this searing indictment of the juvenile justice system, one incarcerated teen weighs what she is… read more
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- young adult contemporary
- race
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
"...Counselor Susan was right about one thing: We’re more than our worst mistakes."-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not
"All this got me wondering: Is that what forgiveness is? Is it forgetting and moving on? Is it doing whatever it takes to hear “I forgive you"-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not
"We’re not the same. Nothing will ever be the same. I try to say it, but it doesn’t come out. It can’t, because all the hurt needs to be spewed out first. Along with all the shame, hiding, guilt."-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not
"The way my parents are reacting to this and last week’s Trials reminds me how much is and isn’t in their control. We’re all experiencing this together with Letta, only we can’t be there to help her. …"-Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not
17. When the Ground Is Hard
By: Malla Nunn
4.15
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school, two girls of different c… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"Jane is stuck in the space between things."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Books are better than gossip, though Delia doesn't think so."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"A dark wind lifts dirt into the air. The land absorbs the sobs of the women and the flinty silence of the gravediggers. The long fields and tall hills swallow us all."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Where would Jane be without that inheritance from her long-lost uncle? If she was in Swaziland, I'll tell you where she'd be: living in a grass hut with nothing to eat but porridge. A blind and cripp…"-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
18. The Waves Take You Home
By: María Alejandra Barrios Vélez
3.96
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges… read more
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- audiobook
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Viva Lola Espinoza
By: Ella Cerón
3.49
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A debut young adult novel that's BOOKSMART with a dash of magic, about a Mexican American teen who … read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
- audiobook
20. The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color
By: Alexs D. Pate
3.98
Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition
When children of color enter their classrooms each year, many often encounter low expectations, dis… read more
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21. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli
4.58
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy … read more
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- race
- audiobook
