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Latine/x Heritage Month: Teen Books

Latine/x Heritage Month is September 15 - October 15. Celebrate with these teen books recommended by the Tacoma Public Library!

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  • Dan in Green Gables

    a Modern Reimagining of Anne of Green Gables

    Terciero, Rey,
    Abandoned to live with his grandparents in rural Tennessee, fifteen-year-old Dan adjusts to working on the farm, starting high school, and being queer in a conservative community.
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : Penguin Workshop, 2025.
  • When three estranged best friends take a road trip to see their favorite band, romantic feelings resurface. Chloe Torres' birthday has always marked the end of summer-but as she turns eighteen and prepares to leave for her freshman year of art…
    Book, 2025New York : Holiday House, [2025]
  • Meet Jalisco and Santa: Jalisco is looking for her beloved mother, who disappeared mysteriously. Santa is faced with taking down the corrupt politicians in her hometown...Jalisco, a spirited girl from the outskirts of Guadalajara, finds her life…
    Graphic Novel, 2025Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2025]
  • After a humiliating public dumping, a teen actress lands a role on the same high-profile show as her ex-boyfriend, only for things to get messy when she falls for his co-star.
    Book, 2025New York : Joy Revolution, 2025.
  • After drowning and making a deal with Death for a new life, Andres Santos starts over in Miami where he forms a polyamorous triad with Renee and Liora, but when Liora ends up in a coma, Andres and Renee embark on a journey into the underworld to…
    Book, 2024Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, 2024.
  • Dami, a nonbinary former demonio, must cancel every deal they have ever made in order to tether their soul to earth and remain human, but first they must help a boy named Silas find Captain Kidd's treasure and break a family curse.
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, 2024.
  • Inspired by Caribbean folklore, eighteen-year-old Selena gets pulled into a string of mysterious murders on her island home.
    Book, 2024Los Angeles : Hyperion, 2024.
  • Most Ardently

    a Pride & Prejudice Remix

    Novoa, Gabe Cole,
    Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for…
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024.
  • Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her…
    Book, 2024New York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
  • There are more than ten things to hate about prom, but the worst thing is when your lovable best friend wants to go with someone else.
    Book, 2024New York : Joy Revolution, [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…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Versify, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
  • Focusing on familial ties and budding love, Call me Iggy challenges our assumptions about Latino-American identity while reaffirming our belief in the hope that all young people represent.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : First Second, 2024.
  • When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's isolated West Texas home and finds her missing, she embarks on a search for clues about Drea's disappearance while facing the unsettling, cult-like and possibly murderous behavior of Drea's roommates.
    Book, 2024New York : Algonquin Young Readers, 2024.
  • When seventeen-year-old Jimena realizes she is undocumented, she decides the best path forward is to find an American to marry her.
    Book, 2024New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024.
  • Set during the controversial 2017 Honduran presidential election, seventeen-year-old Libertad finds purpose writing political poetry as she navigates her sexuality and concerns for her activist brother's safety.
    Book, 2024New York, New York : Dial Books, 2024.
  • Relit

    16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories

    In classic stories remixed, Latinx characters take center stage. Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A…
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press, [2024]
  • Fifteen-year-old Efraín and his two younger brothers live in a house on the hillside in Monterrey, Northern Mexico. They are left to fend for themselves after their mother is wrongly arrested for theft. Má has raised her boys to keep out of trouble…
    Book, 2024Leeds : HopeRoad, 2024.
  • Isabel is having an existential crisis. She's three years into high school, and everything she's learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet--a forum whose members believe…
    Book, 2023New York : Knopf Books for Young Readers, [2023]
  • Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family's taquería and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated by immigration police.
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023.
  • Danna Mendoza Villarreal's grandfather is slowly losing himself as his memories fade, and Danna's not sure her plan to help him remember through the foods he once reviewed will be enough to bring him back. Santos has been lost ever since his mother…
    Book, 2023New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2023.