“JULIETA AND THE DIAMOND ENIGMA”

by Luisana Duarte Armendáriz

Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 3 – 7

Publisher: Tu Books (An Imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc.)

ISBN-13: 978-1643790466

Nine-year-old Julieta is off to Paris to help her art-handler dad collect pieces for a new exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Sadly, they must leave Julieta’s pregnant mother behind, but they’re sure they’ll be back before the baby is born. But things go awry in Paris when she and her dad walk in on a thief stealing the exhibit’s most prized piece – a priceless cursed diamond with a shady history. As Julieta runs for help, she accidentally frees the thief! Now, her dad’s a suspect. Can Julieta determine who the thief really is before it’s too late?

“ON THESE MAGIC SHORES”

by Yamile Saied Méndez

Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 3 – 4

Publisher: Tu Books (An Imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc.)

ISBN-13: 978-1643790312

Twelve-year-old Minerva Soledad Miranda shoulders more responsibility than the other kids at school – like caring for her two sisters while her mom works two jobs. But one night, Minerva’s mom doesn’t come home. Was Mamá snapped up by ICE? Will the girls be sent to foster homes or holding centers for migrant kids? They can’t let anyone know Mamá has disappeared. Soon, something magical seems to be watching out for them: leaving them cupcakes, helping Minerva find money, even steering them to friends and distant family who can help. Eventually, however, Minerva must make the hardest choice of her life.

“A LIBRARY FOR JUANA: THE WORLD OF SOR JUANA INÉS”

by Pat Mora

Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 1 – 2

Publisher: Children’s Book Press (An Imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc.)

ISBN-13: 978-1643790589

From a very young age, Juana Inés loved words. Juana enjoyed poring over books and was soon making up her own stories, songs and poems. Juana wanted to become a scholar, but career options for women were limited at this time. She decided to become a nun – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – in order to spend her life in solitude reading and writing. Although she died in 1695, she is still considered one of the most brilliant writers in Mexico’s history: her poetry is recited by schoolchildren throughout Mexico and is studied at schools around the world.

“NANA’S BIG SURPRISE / NANA, ¡QUÉ SORPRESA!”

by Amada Irma Pérez

Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 3 – 4

Publisher: Children’s Book Press (An Imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc.)

ISBN-13: 978-0892393077

Nana’s move from Mexico should be a joyous occasion. But this summer Nana is coming to California because Tata, beloved husband and abuelo, has died. Amada and her brothers hope to cheer her up with a surprise – a coop full of fluffy yellow chicks, just like the ones Nana raised with Tata in Mexico. But no matter how hard everyone tries to make Nana feel better, it seems like nothing make her smile. That is, until one day the chicks reveal a surprise of their own. “NANA’S BIG SURPRISE” offers comfort and even laughter to readers of all ages.

Higher Education

“THE U.S.-LATINO ENTREPRENEUR’S GUIDE TO BALANCING BUSINESS, FAMILY AND CULTURE”

by Miquela Rivera, Ph.D. and Marvin F. Lozano, Ed.D.

Publisher: Kendall Hunt

ISBN: 9781524985097

This is the first book to offer the start-up or experienced business owner a bilingual (English/Spanish) approach to business success, including roles of family and culture.  It includes approaches, exercises, and tools to build a business with family and culture in mind; develop the Latino entrepreneurial mindset for problem-solving, persistence, and success; understand the impact of personal and cultural values on business decision-making; examine roles of family in a Latino entrepreneur’s business development; develop customers/clients by addressing Latino needs, lifestyles, customs, and preferences; distinguish the forms of operation and management styles; and communicate with family regardless of their involvement in the business.

“CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA: THE PERFORMANCE OF TRAUMA IN THE SHORT NARRATIVES OF AIDA BORTNIK, GRISELDA GAMBARO, AND TUNUNA MERCADO”

by Annette H. Levine

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

ISBN-13: 978-1611473711

“CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA” is an interdisciplinary study that draws on Latin American literary, trauma, performance and cultural studies to analyze the narrative of three Argentine women writers/activists – Aida Bortnik, Griselda Gambaro and Tununa Mercado – whose work reveals the traumatic repercussions of the Dirty War (1976-83) and cultivates a narrative space for working through traumatic impact of the era: the grave losses of human life (30,000 disappeared individuals), the breakdown of civil liberties and the ongoing struggles these problems have perpetuated. Dr. Levine argues that all three authors’ works emphasize the imperative to restore the dialogical principal obliterated by repressive authoritarian regimes.

“DICTATORSHIPS IN THE HISPANIC WORLD: TRANSATLANTIC AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES”

by Patricia Swier and Julia Riordan-Goncalves

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

ISBN-13: 978-1611475890

This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the twentieth century. Some of the themes explored include testimonial accounts of violence and resistance in prisons; hunger and repression; exile, silence and intertextuality; bildungsroman and the modification of gender roles; and the role of trauma and memory within the genres of the novel, autobiography, testimonial literature, the essay, documentaries, puppet theater, poetry, and visual art. By looking at the similarities and differences of dictatorships represented in the diverse landscapes of Latin America and Spain, the authors hope to provide a more panoramic view.

“TOWARD A CULTURAL ARCHIVE OF LA MOVIDA: BACK TO THE FUTURE”

edited by William J. Nichols and H. Rosi Song

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

ISBN-13: 978-1611476309

This book revisits the cultural and social milieu in which la Movida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially and politically. We connect this experience with a broader national and international context that takes it beyond the city of Madrid and outside the borders of Spain. This collection of essays links the political and social undertakings of this cultural period with youth movements in Spain and other international counter-cultural or underground movements. The articles collected in this volume situate this movement within the political and social development of post-Franco Spain.