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145th Street: Short Stories

By Walter Dean Myers

Adventures in Ana Park (Books by Teens #23)

By Kahliya Ruffin, Trevon Evans, Liu Light (Illustrator)

Alejandria Fights Back! / ¡La Lucha de Alejandria!

By Leticia Hernández-Linares,  The Rise-Home Stories Project, and  Robert Liu-Trujillo (Illustrator)

A-Train Allen *

By Lesley Younge and Lonnie Ollivierre (Illustrator)

Barrio Rising: The Protest That Built Chicano Park

By María Dolores Águila and Magdalena Mora (Illustrator)

Boogie Boogie, Y'all

By C. G. Esperanza

The Bronx Is My Home

By Alyssa Reynoso-Morris and Kim Holt (Illustrator)

Carmela Full of Wishes

By Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson (Illustrator)

Dream Street

By Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes (Illustrated by)

Evelyn del Rey Se Muda

By Meg Medina and Sonia Sanchez (Illustrator)

English version is available: Evelyn del Rey Is Moving Away

Fresh Juice

By Robert Liu-Trujillo

From My Window

By Otávio Júnior and Vanina Starkoff (Illustrator)

Grandpa's Corner Store

By DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan

I Can Write the World

By Joshunda Sanders and Charly Palmer (Illustrator)

I Want to Ride the Tap Tap

By Danielle Joseph and Olivier Ganthier (Illustrator)

Joyful Song: A Naming Story

By Lesléa Newman and Susan Gal (Illustrator)

Kiyoshi’s Walk *

By Mark Karlins and Nicole Wong (Illustrator)

Last Stop on Market Street*

By Matt De La Pena, Christian Robinson (Illustrator)

Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art

By J. H. Shapiro and Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)

Mi Ciudad Sings

By Cynthia Harmony and Teresa Martinez (Illustrator)

My City Speaks

By Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron
Braille edition available here - My City Speaks (Braille edition)

Night Shadows

By Barbara Dacosta and Ed Young (Illustrator)

The One Day House

By Julia Durango and Bianca Diaz (Illustrator)
Also available in Spanish: La Casa de Algún Día

Paletero Man

By Lucky Diaz, Micah Player (Illustrator), and Carmen Tafolla (Translator)

Quinito's Neighborhood: El Vecindario de Quinito

By Ina Cumpiano

She Persisted: Pura Belpré

By Meg Medina with Marilisa Jiménez García

A Special Goodbye

By Samantha Thornhill and Shirley Ng-Benitez (Illustrator)

Ten Blocks to the Big Wok

By Ying-Hwa Hu

When Spring Comes to the DMZ

By Uk-Bae Lee

The World Belonged to Us

By Jacqueline Woodson and Leo Espinosa (Illustrator)

Zion Learns to See: Opening Our Eyes to Homelessness *

By Terence Lester and Zion Lester

Doodles from the Boogie Down

By Stephanie Rodriguez

The House on Mango Street

By Sandra Cisneros

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