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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

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