Latino/a Literature   Isabel Allende  City of the Beasts When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.   Julia Alvarez  Finding Miracles Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.   Sandra Cisneros  The House on Mango Street For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.   Sharon Draper  Romiette and Julio Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.   Laura Esquivel  Like Water for Chocolate Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother.   Victor Martinez  Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle.   Laura Resau  Red Glass Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.   Esmeralda Santiago  When I Was Puerto Rican  Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.   Gary Soto  A Fire in My Hands: Poems A collection of poems brings to life themes of growing up, family, friendship, and first love.   Francisco X. Stork  Behind the Eyes Sixteen-year-old Hector is the hope of his family, but when he seeks revenge after his brother's gang-related death and is sent to a San Antonio reform school, it takes an odd assortment of characters to help him see that hope is still alive.     More Latino Literature... Fiction Isabel Allende City of the Beasts   Forest of the Pygmies   House of the Spirits   Kingdom of the Golden Dragon Julia Alvarez Before We Were Free   Finding Miracles Rudolfo Anaya Bless Me, Ultima Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street Sharon Draper Romiette and Julio Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate Lynne Ewing Party Girl Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion Caridad Ferrer Adios to My Old Life Lucy Frank Just Ask Iris Laura Gallego-Garcia The Valley of the Wolves Ivonne Lamazares The Sugar Island Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Victor Martinez Parrot in My Oven: Mi Vida Nancy Osa Cuba 15 Gary Paulsen Sisters/Hermanas Laura Resau Red Glass John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat Francisco X. Stork Behind the Eyes Ana Veciana-Suarez Flight to Freedom Non-Fiction   Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States   Great Hispanic Americans Linda Jacobs Altman Cesar Chavez Kathy Cano-Murillo Crafty Chica's Art de la Soul: Glittery Ideas to Liven up Your Life Lauro Flores The Floating Borderlands: 25 Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature Matt S. Meier Notable Latino Americans: A Biographical Dictionary Nicholas E. Meyer The Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans Calvin Craig Miller Che Guevara: In Search of Revolution Pat Mora My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults Esmeralda Santiago When I Was Puerto Rican Marc Shapiro Carlos Santana: Back on Top Gary Soto A Fire in My Hands: Poems   A Natural Man   Nerdlandia: A Play   New and Selected Poems