Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
By: Saraciea J. Fennell
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx co…
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By: Ibi Zoboi
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria’s father calls her. He’s raised her as part of the Movemen… read more
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2. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
3. Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America
By: Margarita Longoria
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors… read more
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4. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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5. 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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"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
6. 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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7. Inheritance: A Visual Poem
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.49
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
They tell me to "fix" my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do… read more
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8. Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
By: Yamile Saied Méndez
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable mons… read more
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"I don't want the type of love that uses our bodies to cover the holes in our relationship."-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
"Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away."-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
9. All the Fighting Parts
By: Hannah V. Sawyerr
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, a searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency a… read more
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10. Saints of the Household
By: Ari Tison
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more
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11. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more
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12. Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
By: Saraciea J. Fennell
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx co… read more
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13. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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14. When We Make It
By: Elisabet Velasquez
4.38
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it … read more
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15. For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color
By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The founder of Latina Rebels’ “electrifying debut” ( LA Times ) arms women of color with the tools … read more
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"The white people I met were well-meaning, well-read liberal folks who happened to know all the ins and outs of racism and colonialism, but somehow positioned these problems outside of themselves rath…"-Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color
16. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
By: Laura E. Gómez
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos' new collective racial identity on th… read more
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17. Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
By: Reyna Grande
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the… read more
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18. The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
By: Lorraine Avila
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She’s starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her sch… read more
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"Mamá Teté has a saying: “Al que no le gusta el caldo, que le den dos tazas."-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
"I wish I would’ve never internalized the need to put the needs of others over my own."-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
"Mamá Teté comes to my mind: “Our powers exist so we can preserve our power and take back and protect what is ours."-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
"Right above the mirror is the Julia De Burgos quote I’ve learned to love: “Don’t let the hand you hold, hold you down."-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
19. The Bookshop Sisterhood
By: Michelle Lindo-Rice
3.42
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“ This drama-packed page turner will warm your heart!” —Eliza Knight, USA Today bestselling author … read more
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20. ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family
By: Yasmin Ramirez
4.41
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
When I tell people who don't speak Spanish what prieta means--dark or the dark one--their eyes pop … read more
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21. Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice
By: Alma Zaragoza-Petty
4.10
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Creating the world you want to live in takes guts and grace and everything you've got. To heal the … read more
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