Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima.
The healer Ultima brings the magic of her native New Mexico countryside into the life of young Antonio Marez when she comes to live with his family in town.

Barrio Streets, Carnival Dreams: Three Generations of Latino Artistry. Lori Marie Carlson, editor.
Latino writers and artists show what it was to be Hispanic in twentieth-century America.

Bernardo, Anilu. Jumping Off to Freedom.
Falsely accused of black marketeering, fifteen-year-old David Leal and his father escape Cuba on a handmade raft in a perilous ocean voyage.

Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. Sweet Fifteen.
Sewing the dress for Stefanie's coming-of-age party, her quinceanera, puts Rita Navaerra in the middle of the Bonsilla family problems.

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street.
Esmerelda, growing up in her family's home in Latino Chicago, dreams of another life in another house.

Cuentos: An Anthology of Short Stories from Puerto Rico. Kal Wagenheim, editor.
Puerto Ricans struggle with their relationship to America in these bilingual stories.

Hernandez, Jo Ann Yolanda. White Bread Competition.
Luz Rios, a young Mexican-American, provokes controversy among her family and hometown of San Antonio when she might win the chance to represent Texas in a national spelling competition.

Francisco Jimenez. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child.
A Mexican family crosses the border illegally to find farm work in the fields of California.

Martinez, Victor. Parrot in the Oven: mi vida.
Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez lives in the projects of California's Central Valley with his troubled family.

Mohr, Nicholasa. El Bronx Remembered: A Novella and Stories.
Young Puerto Ricans seek the promise of the American dream in New York's South Bronx during the years 1946-1956.

Ortiz, Judith Cofer. An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio.
Young adults coming of age in a close-knit Puerto Rican neighborhood in Paterson, New Jersey.

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Esperanza Rising.
Once the pampered daughter of a wealthy Mexican rancher, Esperanza begins a new life as a farm worker in California.

Soto, Gary. Buried Onions.
After his cousin is killed, Eddie tries to escape the unending violence of the Fresno, California barrio.

Velasquez, Gloria. Rina's Family Secret.
In this fourth book of the Roosevelt High School series, a Puerto Rican teenager tries to hide her stepfather's abuse from family and friends.

Nonfiction

Galarza, Ernesto. Barrio Boy. E184.M5 G3
The mayhem brought about by the Revolution leads Galarza's family to abandon their rural Mexican village for the urban barrio of Sacramento, California.

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States. Lori M. Carlson, editor. PS591.H58 C66 1994

Duran, Roberto, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Gustavo Perez Firmat. Triple Crown: Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-American Poetry. PS591.H58 T75 1987
Three poets write of being Hispanic in contemporary America.

Growing Up Chicana/o: An Anthology. Tiffany Ana Lopez, editor. PS508.M4 G76 1993
Twenty Chicana/o authors remember childhood.

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas. The Cuban American Family Album. E183.C97 H66 1996
A panoramic yet personal view of the Cuban experience in America that includes letters, diary entries, and family pictures.

King, Elizabeth. Quinceanera: Celebrating Fifteen. GT2490 .K56 1998
On their fifteenth birthdays, two young women each celebrate coming into adulthood in the ceremonies and festivities of quinceanera.

Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember Their Mothers. Esmerelda Santiago and Joie Davidow, editors. E184.S75 M365 2000

Meyer, Nicholas E. The Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans. E184.S75 M49 1997
Profiles of prominent Hispanic figures in United States history from the discovery and colonization of America to the present.

Rivera, Edward. Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic. PS3568.I829 F3 1982
Rivera's family followed his unlucky yet hopeful father from their small Puerto Rican farm to New York City.

Santiago, Esmerelda. When I Was Puerto Rican. F128.P85 S27 1994
Transplanted from Puerto Rico to New York City as a teenager, Santiago writes of her life before her acceptance into the High School of Performing Arts.

Thomas, Piri. Down These Mean Streets. F128.9.P85 T48 1997
Thomas recalls his youth in Puerto Rican Spanish Harlem of the Great Depression.