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SPOTLIGHT ON........Juvenile & Young Adult Fiction |
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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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Adios to My Old Life
Caridad Ferrer (MTV Books/Pocket Books, c2006)
FICTION/FER
Tiring of unpromising party and holiday jobs while longing for fame, seventeen-year-old Latina singer and guitarist Ali Montero competes in a Latin superstar contest and finds herself overwhelmed by an ensuing maelstrom of glitzy wardrobe fittings, media interviews, and fan blogs. |
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Behind the Eyes
Francisco X. Stork (Dutton, c2006)
FICTION/STO
Sixteen-year-old Hector is the hope of his family, but when he seeks revenge after his brother's gang-related death and is sent to a San Antonio reform school, it takes an odd assortment of characters to help him see that hope is still alive. |
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Call Me Henri: a Novel
Lorraine Lopez (Curbstone Press, c2006)
FICTION/LOP
Enrique, a middle school student, faces abuse at home and danger on the barrio streets. Yet he's driven to succeed by the desire to join that "other America" he sees on TV, so he drops his "English as a Second Language" class in favor of taking French. |
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Haters
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (Little, Brown, c2006)
FICTION/VAL
When her father moves her to California in order to pursue his comic book deal with powerful players in the industry, Paski finds herself struggling with her new surroundings where money, possessions, and good looks rule unabated. |
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In the Break: a Novel
Jack Lopez (Little, Brown, c2006)
FICTION/LOP
After his best friend Jamie has a violent fight with his stepfather, Juan leaves town with Jamie and his sister Amber, headed for Mexico. Along the way, the trio finds romance, tragedy, and their own sense of peace in this debut novel that captures the intense connection between surfer and surf. |
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Pedrito's World
Arturo O. Martinez (Texas Tech Univ. Press, c2007)
J FICTION/MAR
In southern Texas in 1941, six-year-old Pedrito holds onto his hope for a better future as he helps to grow watermelons on his parents' farm and sell them in San Antonio, and attends school five miles from home. |
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