Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!

Each year in the United States between September 15 and October 15 we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by paying tribute to people of Hispanic heritage from the past and present who have impacted our nation and who have enriched our American culture.  Living in the Houston area, we enjoy a wonderful diversity of cultural influences and there are many different opportunities open for us to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.  How will you celebrate?

Reads for Hispanic Heritage Month

• Sofi Mendoza’s Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico by Malín Alegría
• The F Factor by Diane Gonzales Bertrand
• Feels Like Home by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
• If I Could Fly by Judith Ortiz Cofer
• I Will Save You by Matt de la Peña

• Dreams of Significant Girls by Cristina García
• Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos
• Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
• Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love by Pat Mora
• The Knife and the Butterfly by Ashley Hope Pérez

• Illegal by Bettina Restrepo
• Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
• The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• A Good Long Way by René Saldaña Jr.

• Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez
• Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing by Gary Soto
• The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork
• The Downside of Being Charlie by Jenny Torres Sanchez
• Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush by Luis Alberto Urrea

Flickr CC: Joaquín Torres García - América invertida Photo by: Hablando del asunto