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Celebrate Latine & Hispanic Heritage Month!

Check out these YA books by Latine & Hispanic authors!

Palo Alto City Library

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  • A plus-sized Latina’s struggle to forge a healthy relationship with her own body is challenged by her mother’s insensitivity, her popular best friend and personal doubts about a new boyfriend’s ability to see her as she truly is.
    BookNew York : Holiday House, [2021] — TEEN FICTION MALDONADO
  • Follows an outcast Condesa, as she braves the jungle to forge an alliance with the lost city of gold. Make sure to check out the first book in the series, Woven in Moonlight.
    BookSalem, MA : Page Street Publishing, 2021. — TEEN FICTION IBANEZ
  • The daughter of strict Haitian parents, Simone creates a Senior Year Bucket List of all the things she hasn't had a chance to do, but soon her list takes on a life of its own, forcing her to make some difficult decisions.
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2021. — TEEN FICTION RIGAUD
  • Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand.
    BookNew York : Atheneum, [2020] — TEEN FICTION DE LEON
  • When two teens, Ciela and Lock, discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through Ciela's family’s possibly-magical pastelería, Lock's secret forest of otherworldly trees, and the…
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021. — TEEN FICTION MCLEMORE
  • Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends.
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — TEEN FICTION ACEVES
  • Renata and her enemy Prince Castian must team up to find the fabled Knife of Memory and bring peace to the kingdom of Puerto Leones. Book two in the Hollow Crown duology.
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — TEEN FICTION CORDOVA
  • Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house.
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020. — TEEN FICTION MABRY
  • A follow-up to Infinity Son finds Emil investigating a past he wants to escape to find an antidote to the Reaper's Blood that is killing Brighton, while Maribelle's thirst for revenge compels her down a dangerous path.
    BookNew York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — TEEN FICTION SILVERA
  • Told in two voices, ballet dancer and private school student Isabelle Warren and poet and baseball star Alex Rosario grow closer after meeting on a subway, bonding over their parents' expectations and their own dreams.
    BookNew York : Amulet Books, 2020. — TEEN FICTION WILLIAMS
  • After committing suicide just before high school graduation, Ellie Walker haunts her home and school, reflecting on her life of domestic violence, friendship with August, and dreams of a writing career. Includes list of resources for…
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — TEEN FICTION CALLEN
  • Fleeing abusive relatives and extreme poverty in Mexico, young Santiago endures being detained by ICE while crossing the border into the United States.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2020] — J FICTION DIAZ
  • Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City,…
    BookNew York : Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — TEEN FICTION ACEVEDO
  • Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small…
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2020. — TEEN SCIENCE FICTION VASQUEZ GILLILAND
  • When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu--who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant--discovers that her entire existence is illegal.
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2020. — TEEN FICTION GARBER
  • Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
    BookNew York : Swoon Reads, 2020. — TEEN FICTION THOMAS
  • Izzy Crawford's family has been selected for a new home by Habitat for Humanity, near where the very attractive Sam lives, but just when her neighbor and best friend needs her most.
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin, 2020. — TEEN FICTION PADIAN
  • A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — TEEN FICTION MEJIA
  • A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.
    BookNew York, NY : Bloomsbury YA, 2020. — TEEN FICTION RIVERA
  • Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2020. — TEEN FICTION MENDEZ