Hispanic American Heritage 2006 - Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction

	Celebrate Hispanic American Heritage Month with these recommended titles by, for and about Hispanic Americans. All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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	Accidental Love Gary Soto (Harcourt, c2006) Shelf Number: FICTION/SOT YOUNG ADULT The award-winning author of "Baseball in April and Other Stories" deftly captures all the angst, expectation, and humor that comes with first love in this swift, lighthearted romance.
	Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box Juan Felipe Herrera (HarperCollins, c2005) Shelf Number: FICTION/HER YOUNG ADULT When the towers fall, New York City is blanketed by dust. On the Lower East Side , Yolanda, the Cinnamon Girl, makes her manda, her promise, to gather as much of it as she can. Maybe returning the dust to Ground Zero can comfort all the voices. Maybe it can help Uncle DJ open his eyes again.
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	Cubanita Gaby Triana (Rayo, c2005) Shelf Number: FICTION/TRI YOUNG ADULT This is the story of Isabel D'az, a Cuban-American who would rather just be an American, period. A funny and romantic summer read, and a touching story about discovering roots, this novel proves that limits are imposed, not ordained.
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	Downtown Boy Juan Felipe Herrera (Scholastic Press, c2005) Shelf Number: J FICTION/HER Juanito Paloma, his mother Lucha, and his elderly father Felipe, are a tiny family who, after years of working in the fields of California 's Central Valley , move to San Francisco 's Latin Mission District to live with relatives. Juanito longs to be in one place, rather than "going, going, going," and pines for the love of his often-absent father.
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	El Lector = the Reader William Durbin (W. Lamb Books, c2006) Shelf Number: J FICTION/DUR Young Bella wants to be a lector just like her grandfather, who reads books and newspapers to workers in the cigar factory in their Cuban-American community. But things change when the workers clash with the owners. Can Bella help her people preserve their history?
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	Estrella's Quinceanera Malin Alegria (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2006) Shelf Number: FICTION/ALE YOUNG ADULT Estrella Alvarez is about to turn 15, and there's nothing her meddling mother and T'a Lucky want more than to throw her a gaudy "quinceaqera"--a party that Estrella would rather avoid.
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