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Latinx Heritage Month: Teen Recommendations 2025

These 2025 Latinx Heritage Month picks feature Latinx characters, authors and their stories of change, hardship, family reunions and new beginnings.

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  • A collection of short stories from locals in Guatemala surviving the day to day, and Guatemalan immigrants overseas feeling homesick navigating their new homes.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — BV LEMUS
  • Two best friends from the Dominican Republic take on New York City. They each had big plans for America, but Charo was juggling her child and responsibilities, while Sal was coming into his queer identity.
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. — F-HER
  • The story of Malinalli, who was an interpreter for conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Native Mexican people. Her different point of view shows her empathy and humanity.
    Book, 2025New York : Primero Sueño Press, Atria, 2025. — BV CHAPA
  • Solina mysteriously died right before she returned to her senior year at Kingwood Academy. Her twin sister Luna goes back as Solina and uncovers the dark secrets that could have led to her sister's death.
    Book, 2025New York : Bloomsbury, 2025. — YA ROSE
  • When the USA invaded Panama in 1990, Danilo and his family were displaced from their apartment to a refugee camp. Danilo lost interest in baseball, but then he's presented with an opportunity to play in California.
    Book, 2025New York : Harper, 2025. — J-BUR
  • This sci-fi story takes place in Florida enduring the effects of climate change. Julieta is finally finding her place again with her friends and a new romance, until she signs up for a space exploration program that would send her to the moon for…
    Book, 2025New York : Holiday House, [2025] — YA FIC MUNOZ
  • Noche is a 17-year-old girl by day and a shape shifting owl at night. She helps guide the souls of the dead into the beyond. She becomes conflicted when one of those souls is her girlfriend, who she can’t seem to let go.
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — YA-TOR
  • Ana and Luis have so much in common, like the fact that both their mother’s fled El Salvador during the war. Despite their similarities, their relationship is hanging on by a thread, and they must work together to uncover the family history they…
    Book, 2025New York : Mariner Books, [2025] — F-REY
  • Xiomara, an Afro-Latin singer and actress, is tired of living in her small apartment and barely making it by with her two jobs. Then, she finally gets the second chance she's been waiting for to audition for a lead role.
    Book, 2025New York : One World, [2025] — F-GUE
  • Childhood friends in Cuba reunite in Florida where they must work together to save endangered animals.
    Book, 2025New York : Atheneum, [2025] — YA-ENG
  • Lady Anatema is a spider/human hybrid searching for a bride. Her new Keeper of the Keys, Dália, must find what was stolen from her home before Lady Anatema turns her into her next meal.
    Book, 2025New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — SCIFI/FAN Pueyo H.