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Festival of Bones | El Festival de las Calaveras: The Little-Bitty Book for the Day of the Dead by Luis San Vicente, translated by John William Byrd and Bobby Byrd

30 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Translation

What? Tomorrow is Halloween? Next thing you know, turkeys will trot and oversized bearded men will be out walking the streets. Hard to believe 2014 is almost over already ! But no future-tripping! Well, just for a day, because you'll want to be ready to share...

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

13 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

As National Hispanic Heritage Month draws to a close this week, the audible rendition of this empowering memoir is an ideal celebration of two of the most legendary contemporary Latina heroes: Rita Moreno, the only actress ever to have taken Oscar, Tony, Grammy, and two Emmys...

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande

08 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

She was left at age 2 by her father, then at 4 watched her mother go; both parents braved the border into "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) to make enough American dollars to reunite the family in their dream house someday. The youngest of three children, Reyna...

Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes by Juan Felipe Herrera, illustrated by Raúl Colón

25 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

It's National Hispanic Heritage Month ...

Larry and Friends created and illustrated by Carla Torres, story by Nat Jaspar

06 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x, South American

Happy, happy to Larry who's celebrating his birthday. He's not so thrilled about having "to work like a dog" – even though that's exactly what he is – to prepare for his natal fest, but he's so "very excited" that all his friends are coming. Being a native...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Crystal Chan’s Bird

20 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

19 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x

Oh, oh, oh. You know something special is coming when I start with those three simple syllables. Because big words like 'remarkable,' 'marvelous,' 'resonating' just don't carry the same admiring adoration as plain old 'oh, oh, oh.' I'm also hoping that sort of speechless reaction...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Winifred Conkling’s Sylvia & Aki

11 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Japanese American, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh

08 May, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction

In 1947, seven years before Brown v. Board of Education desegregated all public schools throughout the United States, the Mendez family of Westminster, California, finally won a three-year fight for an equitable education for their children – and all children like them. In an era...

Migrant by José Manuel Mateo, illustrated by Javier Martínez Pedro, translated by Emmy Smith Ready

22 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Translation

Imagine a long scroll, that unfolds like a fan or an accordion. Each panel, when finally open, reveals a single, elongated picture, with sparse text to illuminate the densely populated illustration filled with mountains, animals, plants, people, that give way to trains, police cars, fences, highways, and...

Bird by Crystal Chan

17 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

In the small town of Caledonia, Iowa, Jewel stands out: she's "'half-Jamaican, a quarter white, and a quarter Mexican.'" As if to provide a physical embodiment of Jewel's hapa background, the audible producers cast Amandla Stenberg, who played the heartbreaking role of young Rue in the film version of The...

Ripper by Isabel Allende, translated by Ollie Brock and Frank Wynne

11 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, South American, Translation

Just as her latest book was hitting shelves, the near-deified Isabel Allende opened mouth, inserted foot during an interview on NPR and set off a firestorm of negative reaction. On mysteries, she intoned, "I will take the genre, write a mystery that is faithful to...

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

29 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

What a year Benjamin Alire Sáenz has had: in the adult market, he made literary history last May as the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his seven-story collection, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club; his latest young adult title...

Mi Familia Calaca | My Skeleton Family by Cynthia Weill, illustrated by Jesús Canseco Zárate

26 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Nonethnic-specific, Translation

Check out this fabulous overview in today's New York Times highlighting what real American families look like these days: "Families." Be sure to scroll through all the imbedded slide shows – you know what they say about pictures and words. Inspired by all different types of family permutations, the...

Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash | Marisol McDonald y la fiesta sin igual by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios, Spanish translation by Adriana Domínguez

16 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, South American

In case you need an introduction to the "unique, different, and one of a kind" Marisol McDonald, check out her 2011 debut here: Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match. Now that she's starring in her second book, I hope that means Marisol's got her own series going, so we...

Don’t Say a Word, Mamá | No digas nada, Mamá by Joe Hayes, illustrated by Esau Andrade Valencia

12 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x

Two sisters are always so kind, helpful, and nurturing that they make their Mamá feel like she's "'the luckiest mother in the whole wide world!'" Rosa grows up to marry and have three children; she lives just down the street from Mamá. Blanca chooses the...

Here I Am by Patti Kim, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez

06 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Latina/o/x

I haven't seen Patti Kim’s name on a book cover in quite a while ...

A Handbook to Luck by Cristina García

07 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Cuban, Cuban American, Fiction, Iranian, Latin American, Latina/o/x

Tell me if you've heard this one before: a Cuban, an El Salvadorean, and an Iranian land on the page and spend decades trying to find their place in the world. Yes? Then, you must have read Cristina García’s A Handbook to Luck. No? Then read...

The Slave Poet of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Sean Qualls

04 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Biography, Caribbean, Cuban, Cuban American, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Awarded the 2008 Pura Belpré Medal, "presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth," Margarita Engle’s biography-in-verse introduces Cuban poet Juan Francisco Manzano to younger readers. Born into...

How Far Do You Love Me? by Lulu Delacre, translated by Verónica Betancourt

23 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x

Parents, listen up: here's a heart-fluttering game to play with your kiddies, especially perfect just before bedtime to send the little ones off to slumberland. It's as simple as asking the question that is this title, 'How far do you love me?" and then let...

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