Grades
PreK - 12
The Best Books to Celebrate Hispanic and Latine Heritage
Read and share stories that center the Hispanic and Latine experience with these fiction and nonfiction books for grades PreK–12.
Every year, Scholastic celebrates Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month. Observed from September 15 to October 15, it honors the incredible stories, voices, contributions, and experiences of Hispanic and Latine Americans.
To celebrate Hispanic and Latine heritage in your classroom, explore this list of popular fiction and nonfiction titles handpicked by our editors, including picture books, biographies, and novels.
For example, explore a whimsical tale of unexpected friendship with Between Words. This beautifully illustrated picture book is an unforgettable ode to belonging that shows you don't always need words to make a friendship bloom.
There's also This Is Our Place — a touching novel that will teach older readers about the power of connection. Set in Brazil, this book shares the stories of three teens across three generations living in the same house as they navigate life and find their place in the world.
This month and throughout the year, read and share stories honoring Hispanic and Latine voices. Whether you teach young elementary school students or middle school, there is something for everyone on this list.
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Dive into a whimsical tale of unexpected friendship, told with compassion and warmth. With every brushstroke, Saki Tanaka paints a radiant world where bonds are formed beyond language barriers. A beautiful tale for shy friend-makers everywhere.
The can-do heroine from the acclaimed The Little Red Fort returns in this fresh empowering spin on The Three Little Pigs.
Pick a book. Grow a reader! With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork, these books will plant a love of reading!
Join Alma and her family as they go hunting for the tooth and try to save Junior's special day! Includes a sheet of stickers.
Miles Morales es un chico que por el día estudia en la Academia Visiones de Brooklyn y por la noche se balancea entre los edificios como el Hombre Araña. Un día, un desastroso terremoto azota Puerto Rico, el lugar de nacimiento de su madre, y Miles entra en acción para organizar una recaudación de fondos para la devastada isla. Pero entonces desaparece el padre de una nueva estudiante de su escuela, y Miles comienza a encontrar pistas que conectan la desaparición con una megacorporación que está patrocinando la recaudación de fondos. ¿Quién estará detrás de todo esto y qué relación tiene con el Hombre Araña?
Miles Morales is a normal kid who happens to juggle school at Brooklyn Visions Academy while swinging through the streets of Brooklyn as Spider-Man. After a disastrous earthquake strikes his mother's birthplace of Puerto Rico, Miles springs into action to help set up a fundraiser for the devastated island. But when a new student's father goes missing, Miles begins to make connections between the disappearance and a giant corporation sponsoring Miles' fundraiser. Who is behind the disappearance, and how does that relate to Spider-Man?
This Breakfast Club-inspired graphic novel in Spanish and English text pairs together with an engaging storyline centered on middle school friendships and identity.
Dalia and Dominga would rather join a secret society of villains at the Bewitched Academy of the Dreadful than learn to be princesses. Full of friendship, hijinks, and self-discovery!
Get ready for more magic, mayhem, and monstruos! From Claribel A. Ortega, author of Frizzy and Ghost Squad, comes the sequel to the instant New York Times best-selling and #1 Indie best-selling Witchlings.
Eleven-year-old Max fears his dreams are slipping away, so when the opportunity arises he embarks on a dangerous journey and finds more than he imagined.
Set in and narrated by the same house, Number 8 Sunflower Street, and in three different decades — 2000, 2010, and 2020 respectively — This Is Our Place is a novel about queer teens dealing with sudden life changes, family conflict, and first loves, proving that while generations change, we will always be connected to each other.
Sixteen-year-old Dayana has always dreamed of visiting London -- to walk along the Thames, take pictures outside Buckingham Palace, and maybe even get a glimpse of Arthur, Prince of Wales, whose marriage has been all over tabloids. But the trip of her dreams turns into a royal nightmare when her mother passes away. Now, Day must leave Rio de Janeiro to live with her estranged father and his new family in London.
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