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Dia Reeves

Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves — an inclusive young adult title for older kids and teens.

Young adult

Miller, Keith F., Jr.

2024 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist 2025 Rainbow Book List Concrete Rose meets Things We Couldn't Say in Pritty, a debut novel by Keith F. Miller Jr.--the inspiration behind the forthcoming animated short film of Kickstarter fame--that ...

Young adult

Nikki Carter

. . "This series is poised to ‘blow up'. . ." --Kirkus Praise for Nikki Carter ". . .plenty of reality show-type drama." --Romantic Times on Doing My Own Thing "Nikki Carter is a fresh, new voice.

Young adult

Walter Dean Myers

Jimmy and Kevin could really use a guide to life. Their activities almost land them in juvenile detention until Duke employs them in his Harlem barbershop. Duke has rules for everything. But is he offering good advice or just more aggravation? In the groundbreaking tradition of the award–winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a complex, layered novel about the rules for success. Handbook for Boys is the book that he wishes he could have read while growing up. It is also the book young people need to read today.

Young adult

Amber McBride

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her path.

Young adult

Calvin Slater

But he's not hearing anything good about her new man, Sean. And showing Samantha the truth could be the one game Xavier can't win... With graduation and college coming up fast, Samantha has been thinking hard about her future.

Ages 8–12

Marjorie Agosín

Celeste Marconi’s peaceful life on Butterfly Hill in Valparaíso, Chile, ends when a dictatorship takes hold. She is sent to Maine while her parents go into hiding — a Pura Belpré Medal novel about exile, waiting, and finding a way home.

Ages 8–12

Julia Alvarez

After Tyler’s family hires undocumented Mexican workers to save their Vermont farm, he becomes close with Mari Cruz. Letters between the two children hold a secret that could split both families apart. Pura Belpré Medal.

Ages 3–8

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Poems and David Diaz’s illustrations trace César Chávez’s life and his fight for farmworkers. A Pura Belpré Honor that keeps the chant — sí, se puede — on the page.

Ages 8–12

Alexandra Diaz

After a gang kills his cousin in Guatemala, twelve-year-old Jaime and his sister Ángela flee north toward the United States. A Pura Belpré Honor about the journey families should not have to make.

Ages 8–12

Enrique Flores-Galbis

Julian and his brothers leave Havana on Operation Pedro Pan and land in a Miami camp where bullies run the yard. Inspired by the author’s childhood. Pura Belpré Honor.

Ages 8–12

Francisco Jiménez

Jiménez’s memoir continues after The Circuit: a migrant farmworker student in 1950s California fights to stay in school. Pura Belpré Honor.

Young adult

Francisco Jiménez

The third Jiménez memoir: leaving the fields for Santa Clara University, carrying family duty and the fear of not belonging. Pura Belpré Honor.

Ages 3–8

Kathleen Krull

Yuyi Morales illustrates César Chávez from a shy boy in Arizona to the leader of a 300-mile march for farmworkers. Pura Belpré Honor.

Ages 3–8

Amada Irma Pérez

Amada records the family’s move from Mexico to California — worry, the journey, and the first nights in a new country. Bilingual. Pura Belpré Honor.

Ages 3–8

L. King Pérez

Chico, a child of migrant farmworkers, starts yet another new school in a grape-growing town and finds he can stand up for himself. Pura Belpré Honor.

Ages 3–8

Duncan Tonatiuh

Charlie in American city and Carlitos in a Mexican village write about their days — same cousins, different details. Mixtec-inspired art. Pura Belpré Honor.

Ages 3–8

Duncan Tonatiuh

When Papá Rabbit is late coming home from work up north, Pancho sets out and meets a coyote who offers help — for a price. Pura Belpré Honor for narrative and illustration.

Ages 3–8

Duncan Tonatiuh

Sylvia Mendez is turned away from the neighborhood school because she is Mexican American. Her family takes the fight to court — years before Brown v. Board. Pura Belpré Honor.

Ages 0–3

Richard Van Camp

A board-book love song to a new baby, with Julie Flett’s art. Short lines meant to be read in a lap.

Ages 0–3

Richard Van Camp

Parents tell a baby how they sang that child into the family. Van Camp and Flett again, this time about arrival and belonging.

Ages 3–8

Johnny Marks, Hans Chester, David Katzeek, and Nora Dauenhauer

A Tlingit story of a boy who learns respect for salmon, illustrated by Michaela Goade. Sealaska Heritage.

Ages 3–8

Xelena González

A grandfather shows a child the circles in gardens, family, and time. Adriana M. Garcia’s art. American Indian Youth Literature Honor.

Ages 3–8

Tomson Highway

Two Cree brothers follow the caribou and sing. English and Cree, with John Rombough’s illustrations.