Books for Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month

By Luis Diaz | August 4 2022 | General

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:

Latinx & Hispanic Creators – Middle School titles

Latinx & Hispanic Creators – High School titles

Finding Latinx
Finding Latinx
In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
Paola Ramos
978-1-9848-9909-5
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.
$16.95 US
Oct 20, 2020
Paperback
336 Pages
Vintage
Harvest of Empire
Harvest of Empire
A History of Latinos in America: Second Revised and Updated Edition
Juan Gonzalez
978-0-14-313743-6
A sweeping history of the Latinx experience in the United States
$20.00 US
Jun 14, 2022
Paperback
560 Pages
Penguin Books
Woman of Light
Woman of Light
A Novel
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
978-0-525-51132-8
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina
$28.00 US
Jun 07, 2022
Hardcover
336 Pages
One World
Voices That Count
Voices That Count
Leticia Dolera, Sandra Sabates, Maria Hesse, Lola Garcia, Diana Lopez Varela
978-1-68405-917-1
Brought to life by a host of talented creators, this graphic novel anthology dissects what it means to be a woman in today’s hyper-masculine world.
$16.99 US
Jul 12, 2022
Paperback
128 Pages
IDW Publishing
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz
978-0-8070-0593-4
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
$17.00 US
Dec 11, 2018
Paperback
296 Pages
Beacon Press
Diamond Park
Diamond Park
Phillippe Diederich
978-0-593-35425-4
A fast-paced YA novel about four Mexican-American teenagers from Houston, a '59 Chevy Impala, and a murder that changes their lives forever.
$17.99 US
Mar 08, 2022
Hardcover
288 Pages
Dutton Books for Young Readers
The Turning Pointe
The Turning Pointe
Vanessa L. Torres
978-0-593-42613-5
A bold and emotionally gripping novel about a teenage Latinx girl finding freedom through dance and breaking expectations in 1980s Minnesota.
$18.99 US
Feb 22, 2022
Hardcover
432 Pages
Knopf Books for Young Readers
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