Hispanic Heritage Month

MCPS Recommended Reading Lists

Elementary Middle School High School

Elementary Listing

TITLE

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

PUBLISHER

ISBN #

A Day's Work

Eve Bunting

1994

Clarion Books

0395673216

Abuela

Arthur Dorros

1991

Dutton

0525447504

Abulita's Heart

Amy Cordova

1997

Simon & Schuster

0689801815

Alex Rodriguez

Jim Gallager

2000

Mitchell Lane Pub.

1584150106

Amazing Hispanic American History:

George Ochoa

1998

John Wiley

047119204X

Baseball in April and Other Stories

Gary Soto

1994

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

015205720X

Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans

Nicholas E. Meyer

1997

Facts On File, Inc.

0816032807

Birthday Swap

Loretta Lopez

1997

Lee & Low

0844233668

Carlos and the Squash Plant

Jan Romero Stevens

1993

Northland Pub.

0873585593

Celebrate In Central America

Joe Viesti

1997

Lothrop Lee & Shepard

0688151620

Celebration!:Children Just Like Me:Festivals

Kindersley, Barnabast

1997

Houghton Mifflin

0590935038

Class President

Johanna Hurwitz

1990

Morrow

0688091148

Creativity

John Steptoe

1997

Clarion

0395687063

Erandi's Braids

Antonio Hernandez Madrigal

1997

Putnam

0399232125

Fiesta! Brazil

Editor

1997

Grolier Education

0717291022

Fiesta! Bolivia

Editor

1999

Grolier Education

0717293254

Fiesta! Chile

Editor

1999

Grolier Education

0717293270

Fiesta! Guatemala

Editor

1999

Grolier Education

0717293327

Fiesta! Mexico

Editor

1997

Grolier Education

0717291103

Fiesta! Peru

Editor

1997

Grolier Education

0717291065

Fiesta! Puerto Rico

Editor

1999

Grolier Education

0717293254

Going Home

Mike Venezia

1996

Harper Collins

0060262974

Goodbye USA--Hola Mexico!

Anne Elizabeth Bovaird

1994

Barron's

0812063740

Here is My Kingdom

Charles Sullivan

1994

Harry N Abrams Inc.

081093422I

Hispanic holidays

Faith Winchester

1996

Brigestone Books

1560654570

How Nanita learned to make flan

Arthur Dorros

1999

Atheneum

0689815468

In My Family: En Mi Familia

Carmen Lomas Garza

1996

Children's Book Press

0892391383

Ivan Rodriguez

Tony DeMarco

2000

Mitchell Lane Pub.

1584150068

Josefina's Surprise

Valerie Tripp

1997

Pleasant Co.

1562475207

Journey of Diego Rivera

Ernest Goldstein

1996

Lerner Pub.

0822520664

La Causa

Dana Catharine De Ruiz

1993

Raintree Steck Vaughn

0811472310

Latinos in Baseball Series:Moises Alou

Carrie Muskat

1999

Mitchell Lane Pub.

1883845866

Learning About Determination From the Life of Gloria Estefan

Meanne Stazzabosco

1996

Rosen

0823924165

Llama and the Great Flood

Ellen Alexander

1989

Harper & Row

0690047290

Learning About Justice from the Life of Cesar Chavez

Jeanne Strazzabosco

1997

Rosen

0823924173

Magic windows: ventanas magicas

Carmen Lomas Garza

1999

Children's Book Press

089239157X

Medipollito:

Alma Flor Ada

1995

Doubleday

0385320442

Moon rope

Lois Ehlert

1992

Harcourt Brace Jovanovhch

0152553436

Moon Was At a Fiesta

L. Martinez Illust.

1994

Tortuga

1889910112

Most Beautiful Place in the World

Ann Cameron

1988

Alfred A. Knopf

0394804244

Musicians of the sun

Gerald McDermott

1997

Simon & Schuster

0689807066

New Shoes For Silvia

Johanna Hurwitz

1993

Morrow

0688052878

Pedro Martinez

Jim Gallagher

1999

Mitchell Lane Pub.

1883845858

Pinatas and Smiling Skeletons

Zoe Harris

1998

Pacific View

1881896196

Rainbow tulip

Pat Mora

1999

Viking

0670872911

Ramon Martinez

Jim Gallagher

1999

Mitchell Lane Pub.

1584150092

Roberto Alomar

Norman Macht

1999

Mitchell Lane Pub.

188384584x

Sammy Sosa

Carrie Muskat

1999

Mitchell Lane Pub.

1883845920

School Spirit

Joanna Hurwitz

1994

Morrow

0688128254

Sleeping Bread

Stefan Czernecki

1992

Hyperion Press

1562821830

Snapshots from the Wedding

Gary Soto

1997

Putnam

039922808X

Soccer Cousins

Jean Marzollo

1997

Scholastic

059074254X

Tino Martinez

John Torres

1999

Mitchell Lane Pub.

1883845823

Tomas and the library lady

Pat Mora

1997

Knopf

0679904018

Too Many tamales

Gary Soto

1992

Putnam

0399221468

Tortillitas para mama and other nursery rhymes

Margot C. Griego

1981

Holt

0030567041

Traditional crafts from Mexico and Central America

Florence Temko

1996

Lerner Pub.

0844226572

Under the Lemon Moon

Edith Hope Fine

1999

Lee & Low Books

1880000695

Vinny Castilla

Tony DeMarco

2000

Mitchell Lane Pub.

1584150084

When Fireflies Dance

Lucha Corpi

1997

Children's Book Press

0892391456


Middle School Listing

TITLE

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

PUBLISHER

ISBN

Argentina the Culture

Greg Nickles

2001

Crabtree

0865052468

Barrio Strees Carnival Dreams

Lori Marie Carlson

1996

Henry Holt

0805041206

Firefly Summer

Pura Belpre

1996

Arte Publico

1558851801

Forty-Third War

Louise Moeri

1989

Houghton Mifflin

0395669553

La Mariposa

Francisco Jimenez

1998

Houghton Mifflin

0395816637

Local News

Gary Soto

1993

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

059048446X

Magic Windows/Ventanas Magicas

Carmen Lomas Garza

1999

Children's Book Press

089239157X

Marisol and Magdalena: The Sound of our Sisterhood

Veronica Chambers

1998

Hyperion

0786804378

Moments Magicos: Tales From Latin America

Olga Loya

1998

August House

087483497X

Pacific Crossing

Gary Soto

1992

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

0152591885

Spirits of the High Mesa

Floyd Martinez

1997

Arte Publico

1558851984

Taking Sides

Gary Soto

1991

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

0152840761

Voices From the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmers Tell Their Stories

S. Beth Atkin

1993

Joy Street Books

0316056332

White Bread Competition

Jo Ann Yolanda Hernandez

1997

Pinata Books

1558851984

 

 

High School Listing

TITLE

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

PUBLISHER

ISBN

An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio

Judith Ortiz

1995

Orchard Books

0531068978

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

1972

Warner Biijs

0446675369

Cool Salsa: Billingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States

Lori M. Carlson

1994

Henry Holt and Company

0606160760

Cuba

Victoria Sherrow

2001

Twenty First Century Books

0761314040

From Grandmother to Granddaughter:Salvadoran Women's Stories

Michael Gorkin

2000

University of California Press

0520222407

Heart of a Jaguar

Marc Talbert

1995

Simon & Schuster

068980282X

Hispanic 100

Himilce Novas

1995

Carol

0806516518

Hispanic American Almanac

Nicholas Kanellos

1993

Gale Research Inc.

0810398230

Hispanic Presence in North America From 1492 to Today

Carlos M. Fernandez-Shaw

1991

Facts on File

0816040109

House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

1989

Vintage Books

0375403825

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Julia Alvarez

1991

Algonquin Books

0945575572

Imagining Isabel

Omar S. Castaneda

1994

Lodestar Books

0525674314

Journey of the Sparrows

Fran Leeper Buss

1991

Dell Publishing

1562540785

Notable Hispanic American Women

Diane Telgen

1993

Gale Research Inc.

0787620688

Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida

Victor Martinez

1996

Harper Collins

0060267046

The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture & Identity in America

Ilan Stevans

1996

Harperperennial Library

0060927937

Thirty Million Strong: Reclaiming the Hispanic Image in American Culture

Nicholas Kanellos

1998

Fulcrum Pub.

1555912656



 

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