Sylvan Recommended Reading List:
National Hispanic Heritage Month Reading Recommendations (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15)
Elementary School
| Kindergarten: | Gathering the Sun/Cosecha de Sol: An Alphabet in Spanish and English by Alma Flor Ada Taking a Walk/Caminando: A Book in Two Languages by Rebecca Emberley |
| Grade 1: | A Birthday Basket for Tia by Pat Mora ¡Qué Montón de tamales! by Gary Soto |
| Grade 2: | Roadrunner's Dance by Rudolfo Anaya First Day in Grapes by L. King Perez |
| Grade 3: | The Most Beautiful Place in the World by Ann Cameron Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba by Alma Flor Ada |
| Grade 4: | Fiesta U.S.A. by George Ancona César: Yes, We Can!/César: ¡Sí, Se Puede! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand |
| Grade 5: | Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan Becoming Naómi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan |
Middle School
| Grade 6: | How Would You Survive as an Aztec? by Fiona MacDonald Salsa Stories by Lulu Delacre |
| Grade 7: | Harvesting Hope: The Story of Caesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull Call Me Maria: A Novel in Letters by Judith Ortiz Cofer |
| Grade 8: | The Emerald Lizard: Fifteen Latin American Tales to Tell by Pleasant DeSpain The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez |
High School
| Grade 9: | The Captive by Scott O'Dell Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa |
| Grade 10: | The Tree is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems and Stories from Mexico with Paintings by Mexican Artists by Naomi Nye How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez |
| Grade 11: | The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago |
| Grade 12: | Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros The Shadow of the Wind: A Novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and translated by Lucia Graves |
