PrintRecommended Reading
Use these resources to start or supplement your school or classroom library.
Sources: American Library Association; Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Resource Center of the Americas
Early Elementary
Andrews-Goeble, Nancy. The Pot that Juan Built, 2002.
Krull, Kathleen. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, Harcourt, 2003.
Morales, Yuyi. Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, Chronicle Books, 2003.
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Mice and Beans, Scholastic, 2001.
Winter, Jonah. Frida, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, 2002.
Late Elementary
Montes, Marisa. Juan Bobo Goes to Work, Harper Collins, 2000.
Philip, Neil. Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet: Mexican Folktales, Clarion Books, 2003.
Middle School
Cameron, Ann. Colibrí, Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003.
Joseph, Lynn. The Color of My Words, HarperCollins/Joanna Cotler, 2000.
Osa, Nancy, Cuba 15, Delacorte Press, 2003.
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Esperanza Rising, Scholastic, 2000.
High School
Griswold del Castillo, Richard. César Chávez: A Triumph of Spirit, University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
Jiménez, Francisco. Breaking Through, Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Martinez, Floyd. Spirits of the High Mesa, Arte Público, 1997.
Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless Me, Ultima, Time Warner Company, 1999.Alvarez, Julia. Before We Were Free, Knopf, 2002.Freedman, Russell. In the Days of the Vaqueros: America’s First True Cowboys, Clarion, 2001.Alarcón, Francisco X. From the Bellybutton of the Moon, and Other Summer Poems / Del ombligo de la luna, y otros poemas de verano, Children's Book Press, 1998.
