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MakeMakeMakeMake is a free digital library with 200 Spanish-language eBooks for children. Discover exciting animated and interactive books, all in Spanish! |
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VIP LearningVIP Learning offers free access to more than fifty vocational and technical courses in topics such as Mechanics, Beauty, Food, Electronics, Education, and so many more. While most courses are in Spanish, some are available in English. |
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Martina Has Too Many Tías
by Emma Otheguy; illustrated by Sara Palacios
What it's about: In this riff on the Caribbean folktale of La Cucaracha Martina, little Martina escapes the sensory overload of a visit from her exuberant tías by embarking on a magical journey.
For fans of: The sweet, silly intersection of familial love and need for personal space in Vera Brosgol's Leave Me Alone! or Adam Rex's Oh No, the Aunts Are Here.
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Our Day of the Dead Celebration
by Ana Aranda
What it's about: Celebrating the Day of the Dead, as experienced by one family as they honor their beloved ancestors and prepare treats, music, and decorations for a special party (attended by the living and the dead).
Why kids might like it: Newcomers to these traditions will appreciate the colorfully illustrated introduction, while kids who are familiar will enjoy the heartfelt family story.
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Tag Team
by Raúl the Third; colors by Elaine Bay
What it's about: Wrestling partners El Toro and La Oink Oink triumphed in the ring last night, but can they tackle clean-up in the arena?
Read it for: The energetic, comic book-style art and warm cooperation between friends.
Series alert: Along with the companion book Training Day, Tag Team kicks off a series of easy readers set in the same town as ¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market.
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Puppy Love
by Gary Soto
How it started: Following a major public humiliation, Jordan Mendoza goes to the canal to think, but ends up jumping in to save a drowning puppy.
How it's going: Afterwards, Jordan has questions. Why do his dreams keep sending him back to the canal to rescue more puppies? Can he redeem himself with the girl he likes? And why do the police suddenly want to talk to him?
Read it for: A sweet but realistic story with lots of layers.
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No Filter and Other Lies
by Crystal Maldonado
Do it for the 'gram: When biracial Kat Sanchez uses photos of her gorgeous (and clueless) coworker Becca to set up a fake Instagram account, she gets all the attention she's been craving.
Gone catfishing: Between lying to Becca, lying to her online and in-person crush Elena, and looming family problems, Kat can't maintain the charade forever.
Who it's for: Anyone who has struggled to find authenticity and a sense of belonging in a social media-saturated world.
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How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
In her shadow: 17-year-old Mexican American Moon feels inferior to her twin sister Star, a beautiful social media influencer. Star is light-skinned, thin, and their mother's favorite.
On the road: Moon agrees to sell merchandise for Star during a summer-long influencer bus tour. As a slow burning romance with fellow merch slinger Santiago unfolds, Moon begins to understand her own beauty and power.
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Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity
by Angela Velez
On the bus: Lulu and Milagro know their older sister Clara has changed since going to college. They need to talk to her in person — without their overprotective mom — during the week-long college tour organized by their Catholic girls' school.
The goal: Uncovering Clara's secrets while also discovering what the future could hold for Lulu and Milagro.
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Abuela, Don't Forget Me
by Rex Ogle
What it's about: The warm, steady presence of a grandmother. She offered safety, a sense of home, and a connection to Mexican culture to a child experiencing abuse, poverty, and racism.
How it's told: Author Rex Ogle’s emotionally intense memories chronicling life from age four through college are conveyed through lyrical, moving poetry.
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Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us
by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind, funny, sensitive, resilient, judgmental, messy, beautiful women. Whether blood relatives or chosen family, these tías and primas fundamentally shaped her view of the world. Tías and Primas is a deeply felt love letter to family, community, and Latinas everywhere.
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Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan
by Stefan Rinke
A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors. Written by a leading historian of Latin America, Conquistadors and Aztecs offers a timely portrayal of the fall of Tenochtitlan and the founding of an empire that would last for centuries.
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The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends
by Camilla Townsend
Based on Nahuati-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish, this essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology returns to the original tales, told at the fireside by generations of Indigenous Nahuati speakers, revealing a rich tapestry of mythic tradition that defies modern expectations.
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First Gen
by Alejandra Campoverdi
A trailblazing women's health advocate and former Obama aide discusses her experiences as Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles and the challenges of navigating social mobility as a first-generation Latina.
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My Side of the River
by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage children affected by broken immigration laws.
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My Mexican Kitchen: 100 Recipes Rich With Tradition, Flavor, and Spice
by Eva Longoria
While hosting Searching for Mexico on CNN, Eva Longoria reconnected with her Mexican roots and tasted iconic Mexican dishes like meat-stuffed Chiles en Nogada draped in a creamy walnut sauce and the Yucatán classic Pollo Asado, made with an aromatic garlic-citrus-achiote paste. In My Mexican Kitchen, she embraces the techniques and flavors she discovered and brings them home to her Southern California kitchen. From dishes based on long-heeded Aztec traditions like Chicken Enchiladas with Salsa Verde to her Tia Elsa’s Pork and Red Chile Tamales and Conchas that remind her of Mexico City, each recipe offers a delicious tribute to Mexican food and flavors.
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The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes & the Women Who Preserve Them
by Karla Tatiana Vasquez
A food historian and Salvadoran, through this collection of 80 recipes, shares the stories of the women in her life who reveal shared experiences of what it was like in El Salvador before the war, and what life was like as Salvadoran women surviving in their new home in the U.S.
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Latin-ish: More Than 100 Recipes Celebrating American Latino Cuisines
by Marisel Salazar
Marisel Salazar combines years of research and travel to bring you a diverse array of delectable, modern foods shaped by diaspora and migration. Start your day with San Antonio Migas or Guava Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls and snack on a Mango Chamoy Salad or Yuca Fries with Cilantro Lime Aioli. Feast on Cuban Pizza or Arkansas Tamales, indulge in a slice of Plantain Upside Down Cake or Fried Ice Cream, and kick back with a Oaxaca Old-Fashioned or a Texas Margarita.
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Abuela’s Plant-Based Kitchen: Vegan Cuisine Inspired by Latin & Caribbean Family Recipes
by Karla Salinari
Seventy-five plant-based recipes that marry the comfort of nostalgic, cultural dishes with the modern desire for healthy, at-home cooking. Paired with personal stories, tips, and tricks for success, Salinari makes ingredients such as chickpea water, tempeh, and tofu approachable for those new to plant-based cooking, while empowering readers to take charge of their health through plant-based nutrition.
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Until August
by Gabriel García Márquez
In a rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ana Magdalena Bach has been happily married for 27 years, and yet, every August, she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
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The Volcano Daughters
by Gina Maria Balibrera
Spending years under the cruel dictator El Gran Pendejo's regime in El Salvador, sisters Graciela and Consuelo, when genocide strikes the community from which they hail, and each believing the other to be dead, flee across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways.
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You Dreamed of Empires
by Álvaro Enrigue
Bringing to life Tenochtitlan at its height and reimagines its destiny, the vision author of Sudden Death takes us back to 1519 where conquistador Hernán Cortés meets emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages and two possible futures.
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
by Julia Alvarez
Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
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The Sons of El Rey
by Alex Espinoza
While Freddy Vega struggles to save his luchador father's gym, his son Julian seeks professional and romantic fulfillment as a Mexican American gay man refusing to be defined by stereotypes, in this intimate portrait of a family wading against time and legacy, yet always choosing the fight.
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Say Hello to My Little Friend
by Jennine Capό Crucet
Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and respect he assumes comes with it. As the truth surrounding Izzy's boyhood escape from Cuba surfaces, the novel reckons with the forces of nature, with the limits and absence of love, and with the dangers of pursuing a tragic inheritance.
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The Witches of El Paso
by Luis Jaramillo
A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in 1943 El Paso, Texas in this richly imagined and empowering story of motherhood, magic, and legacy in the vein of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina and La Hacienda.
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A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories
by Mariana Enriquez
Offers twelve unsettling stories where ordinary people living in Argentina, particularly women, must confront terrifying and surreal encounters with the supernatural, in the new collection from the author of Our Share of the Night.
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PG-13 Valentin is Acapulco’s resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico. |
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NR | Stream on Kanopy! With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine. |
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Spare Parts (2015)PG-13 With the help of their high school’s newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics contest. Along the way, the students learn not only how to build a robot but something far more important: how to forge bonds that will last a lifetime.
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Tótem (2023)NR In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
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The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears. |
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NR | Stream on Kanopy! After twenty-three years of working for the same family, a discontented maid finds herself trying to save her job when the family begins to hire a series of newer maids to help her out around the house |
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Map of Latin American Dreams explores the desires and hopes of individuals throughout Latin America. The project consists of many trips, beginning in 1992 and continuing through 2013, to Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Brazil, and Colombia. |
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Only When I Dance (2009)This feel-good documentary follows Irlan and Isabela, two teenagers from the violent favelas of Rio de Janeiro, as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional ballet dancers. This inspiring story takes us from Rio - where their communities must raise the funds to support their ambitions - to exhilarating ballet competitions in New York and Switzerland. It's a film about their determination to dance, and the price one must pay for talent, ambition and success.
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The story of the Patronas, a group of Mexican women who, every day since 1995, make food and toss it to the helpless as the train rushes by. In the midst of a country at war in a world where all hope seems lost, the Patronas breathe life into a human value that seems fading with each day: love for one another. |
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