[LM_NET] HIT: SEC: Latin American lit list

[Rena Deutsch <rdlibnyc@GMAIL.COM>]

a belated thanks to everyone who sent titles of fiction and memoir for a
high school Latin literature class doing independent reading :

I will post additional titles in the near future...


Francisco Jimenez: The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

Matt de la Pena- Ball Don't Lie and Mexican White Boy

Rene Saldana  - Finding Our Way

Crossing the Wire by Hobbs
Hermanas by Paulsen
Romiette and Julio by Draper
Cuba 15 by Osa
Shot in the Dark by Schraff (bluford series)

Brothers in arms by Langan (bluford series)

Colibri by Ann Cameron
I am the Taxi by Deborah Ellis

Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts" House of Spirits" and "Paula" (memoir)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez "100 Years of Solitude" as well as "Love in the Time
of Cholera’



The following authors, I believe, are not Latin American, but the stories
are set there:

 "Journey to the river sea" by Eva Ibbotson

"Keeper" by Mal Peet

"Tree Girl" by Ben Mikaelsen





memoirs

A message from God in the atomic age / Irene Vilar; translated from the
Spanish by Gregory Rabassa

Reflections on a Puerto Rican life : Benjy Lopez : a picaresque tale of
emigration and return / Barry B. Levine

The silk purse : a memoir / Raquel Ortiz

When the spirits dance mambo : growing up nuyorican in el barrio / Marta
Moreno Vega

Memoir of a visionary : Antonia Pantoja / Antonia Pantoja

Child of the revolution : growing up in Castro's Cuba / Luis M. Garcia

Finding man~ana : a memoir of a Cuban exodus / Mirta Ojito

Next year in Cuba : a Cubano's coming-of-age in America / Gustavo Pe?rez
Firmat

Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy / Carlos Eire

Blessed by thunder : memoir of a Cuban girlhood / Flor Fernandez Barrios





-- 
Rena Deutsch, Librarian
Seward Park Campus Schools
350 Grand St.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 475-4148 x435
rdlibnyc@gmail.com

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