Latinx Stories for teens

Running from a painful past filled with abandonment and betrayal, seventeen-year-old Xochi becomes the live-in governess to twelve-year-old Pallas--the daughter of a free-loving rock star family in San Francisco. One night, during a raucous party downstairs, Xochi and Pallas playfully perform a riot-grrrl ritual and accidentally summon a pair of demons who look to right the wrongs of Xochi's past. She quickly learns that the demons' thirst for vengeance...

Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-fighting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them.

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--

Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.

Explores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano music

Musical sound has been central to heteromasculinist productions of nation and homeland, whether Chicano, Tejano, Texan, Mexican, or American. If this assertion holds true, as Deborah R. Vargas suggests, then what are we to make of those singers and musicians whose representations of gender

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Xochitl, a storyteller in her village, is destined to hear the confessions of those in her community and relay them to the desert wind and the sun god Solis so they don't manifest as nightmares. But Xochitl is disillusioned with her fate, so when she gets the opportunity to accompany the local warlord's daughter to a new place, she takes the risk, even if it means holding onto a dangerous confession that could have dire consequences.

"In this ... memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War"--Amazon.com.

Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.

Esperanza is a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. She doesn't want to belong to her rundown neighborhood or the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza finds the power within herself to become who she wants to be.