Teen
Ballad & dagger
Older, Daniel JoseĢ, eauthor
2022
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
Breathe and count back from ten
Sylvester, Natalia, author.
2022
Veronica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Veronica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex, her cute new neighbor. She decides it's time to seize control of her life, but her plans come crashing down when she learns her parents have been hiding the truth from her--the truth about her own body.
Brownstone
Teer, Samuel, author
2024
In the summer of 1995, almost-fifteen-year-old Almudena is sent to live with her estranged Spanish-speaking father, and together they renovate a brownstone and build a relationship while Almudena navigates the Latin American side of her heritage for the first time.
Burn down, rise up
Tirado, Vincent, author
2022
When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
Call me Iggy
Aguirre, Jorge Augusto, author
2024
Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's world is spun around. But Marisol has too much going on to be bothered with the likes of Iggy. She has school, work, family, and the uphill battle of getting her legal papers. ...
Fat chance, Charlie Vega
Maldonado, Crystal, author
2021
Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
Guava and grudges
Castellanos, Alexis, author.
2024
"Two teens from rival Cuban bakeries create a recipe for disaster when they start to fall for each other"-- Provided by publisher.
Just say yes
Moldavsky, Goldy, author
2024
When seventeen-year-old Jimena realizes she is undocumented, she decides the best path forward is to find an American to marry her.
We are not from here
Torres Sanchez, Jenny, author
2020
Three teenage immigrants risk the trip from Guatemala through Mexico to the United States southern border in search of a better life.
Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass : the graphic novel
Vargas, Mel Valentine, author, illustrator.
2023
Your heart, my sky : love in a time of hunger
Engle, Margarita, author
2021
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.