Penguin Random House Education is proud to celebrate Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs annually from September 15th through October 15th. We are highlighting the works of our authors and illustrators from the Latinx and Hispanic community, whose stories and characters have a profound impact on our society.
Here is a selection of titles that we encourage you to share with your students this month and beyond:
Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many of them—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been represented. No longer.
The PRH Translanguaging Collections were created by Drs. Luz Yadira Herrera and Carla España to carefully consider how we validate and support bilingualism and multilingualism in classrooms. Each of the six themes and accompanying texts invite students to use their own experiences and languages to make connections and deepen their engagement with texts and each
Looking for compelling and award-winning books that fit seamlessly into your classroom? The Penguin Random House High School Collections offer educators the chance to expand beyond the traditional literary canon by including a diverse array of texts including best-selling fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels. These collections feature unifying themes such as belonging, identity, and resilience,
