Latino Reader

He didn't have a team. He didn't have boots. He had a wall, and he used it every single day. Marco Rivera grew up playing alone on a cracked parking lot in East LA, practicing with a plastic bottle against a concrete wall until the day he spotted a real team training on the other side of the fence. Four days he stood there and watched. On the fifth day, he walked through the gate. What happened next will change everything. From street football to his first tryout, from the moment Coach Ray noticed the kid who read the game like no one he'd ever seen, this is the story of a boy who refused ...

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide...

Award-winning author Reyna Grande shares her personal experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her memoir, The Distance Between Us—“an important account of the many ways immigration impacts children” (Booklist, starred review). When her parents make...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Latin. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his...

In his essay On Anger, the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca argues that anger is the most destructive passion. This splendid new translation of essential selections from On Anger, presented with an enlightening introduction, offers listeners a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger. Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples, anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity.

One AI Cat. Three Trapped Kittens. And a Rescue Mission Where the Stakes Are Everything. Eleven-year-old Carmen Ochoa has faced ICE raids, wilderness campgrounds, and the heartbreaking loss of her mother. Now, she finally has a birth certificate, a court date, and her best friend by her side: Cypher, a snarky, high-tech AI cat who’s as good at calculating square roots as he is at complaining about sand. She thought life was finally settling down. She was wrong. It’s just another Tuesday in November—until Carmen finds herself crammed into a bread van with federal agents disguised as ...

An amateur sleuth, a Paris bouquiniste, with an ear for trouble. A retired notary who knows where the literary bodies are buried. A vanished author. A scandalous manuscript. A crime writers' workshop about to implode. A witty Paris cozy with eccentric suspects, a plot to die for, and a puzzle that twists until the final page. Ava Sext came to Paris for adventure. She got a bookstand overlooking the Seine, a seat at a crime writers' workshop, and a novel by an author who vanished twenty years ago. Fellow bookseller Henri De'Ath is wry and impossible to surprise — which is how an old ...

I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter meets Emergency Contact in this stunning story of first love, familial expectations, the power of food, and finding where you belong. Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her mom...

A clear-eyed, haunting story of an ordinary woman struggling to survive captivity, and its aftermath, in the volatile world of 1970s Argentina “Infused with the intensity of a thriller and with such poetic force, The Call is a masterclass. A hundred years from now, we’ll still be talking...

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Spanish language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by...

A meteorite comes crashing down on the lives of three middle schoolers changing everything they know about family, friendships, and community in this charming and heartfelt novel with a light STEM touch. The space rock is just the latest thing to land, uninvited, in Vega Lucero’s road-stop...

Nominada para el PEN / Jean Stein Award De la pluma de la aclamada autora de Cantoras llega una novela incandescente —política, mística, actual y alentadora— sobre el poder de la memoria y la búsqueda de la justicia. En su casa modesta a las afueras de la ciudad, el expresidente de un...

The wall always gave back what he put in. Europe doesn't work like that. Marco Rivera is nineteen years old. He has a contract with FC Porto, forty words of Portuguese, and a map on his wall before he unpacks anything else. The Estádio do Dragão seats 50,000 people, and nobody in it knows his name yet. The game here is faster, colder, and more technical than anything he has ever faced, and the coach wants him invisible, two seconds ahead of everyone, reading the pitch like a map nobody else can see. Then a veteran midfielder decides Marco doesn't belong. Six thousand miles away, Coach Ray...

In this fast-paced middle grade horror for fans of SMALL SPACES, a boy must confront his grief and save his younger brother from a cursed forest. Ryan’s dad had a lot of rules: Never let others see you cry. Never let people outside of the family hear you speaking Spanish. But the most...

A collection of essential writings by Latinas from the 1900s to 1960 that documents the undeniable presence of the Latina community in the United States and stands as a testament to the dismissal and erasure of their intellectual and feminist contributions to the nation A Penguin Classic The...

An affirming picture book that celebrates the brilliance and power of brown and Black boys to achieve their dreams, from poet and activist Leslé Honoré and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Keturah A. Bobo. My brown boy laughs like a song, rhythm like rain, soft and strong. He holds...

The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. This book has been carefully adapted into modern English to allow for easy listening. Enjoy!

They faced the mad headmaster, a machine that took them to a post-apocalyptic nightmare, a gang of superpowered criminals, and a traitor from within their own group of friends. But now Brendan and his allies must face a rival school in a conflict that may turn Dutchman Springs Academy into a war zone. Meanwhile, his father is still missing, and possibly in the hands of his double from Not-Earth. Brendan isn’t the only one looking. A ruthless FBI agent is on the case, and he’ll stop at nothing to get Brendan to reveal everything he knows about the double, his supervillain father, and any...

The race to find the headmaster’s vault is on! But no one knows where he’s hidden it. What is certain is that the vault holds the key to the gate machine technology, and whoever controls the vault will have access to a door that leads to other worlds. Not-Earth’s military wants it. So does a gang of superpowered criminals who will stop at nothing to possess it. Only Brendan and his fellow students of Dutchman Springs Academy stand in their way. Can they discover the vault’s secrets and rescue the students kidnapped to Not-Earth by the headmaster? But the vault’s technology leaves ...