hispanic americans

Presents photographs and stories of ten influential and important Hispanic-American women and men from very different backgrounds and times who made history and are still making it.

Presents a collection of short mystery stories containing Latino characters and settings that readers can solve themselves.

Ambitious high school senior and honor student Efrain Rodriguez makes some questionable choices in pursuit of his dream to escape the South Bronx and attend an Ivy League college.

A collection of writing by teen participants in the Voces program at New Mexico's National Hispanic Cultural Center, which brings together participants of all races in an effort to create a community of respect through the literary arts.

Presents a collection of inspirational stories designed for the over forty million Latinos with roots in Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula living in America.

A biography of the first Hispanic American to be picked in the first round of the National Hockey League Draft, and who went on to help the New Jersey Devils win the 2000 Stanley Cup.

Traces the life and career of Freddie Prinze, Jr., star of such films as "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "She's All That.".

An anthology of Latino folktales, lullabies, poems, and proverbs, with first-person recollections from the author's own experiences, as well as those of one hundred well-known Latinos from the past and present.

Explores the history and culture of Hispanic-Americans, people in the United States whose ancestors--or they themselves--came from Spain or the Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America.

Profiles the achievements of fourteen outstanding Hispanic Americans in different areas of society, with photographs from professional and personal collection.