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Early Childhood and Elementary | Middle Grades | Young Adult | Adult 

Berta Saves the River/Berta salva el río

By Suzanne Llewellyn and Luis Chávez (Illustrator)

Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras

By Nelson Rodríguez and Leonardo Agustín Montes

Vámonos a Antigua

By Patty Rodriguez, Ariana Stein, and Ana Godinez (Illustrator)

Enrique's Journey (YA edition)*

By Sonia Nazario

Gaby, Lost and Found*

By Angela Cervantes

Max Loves Munecas!*

By Zetta Elliott

Libertad

By Bessie Flores Zaldívar

The Long Honduran Night

By Dana Frank

13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance*

By Melizza Cardoza, Matt Ginsberg (Translator)

Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras

By Mark Anderson

The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras

By Sharony Green

Don't Be Afraid Gringo

By Elvia Alvarado

The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras

By Christopher Loperena

Enrique's Journey*

By Sonia Nazario

Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras

By Jon Horne Carter

Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras

By Tanya M. Kerssen

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972

By Darío a. Euraque

Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras

By Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda

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