Hispanic Americans book series in reading order

Fran Manushkin, born November 2, 1942, is an American children's author who worked first as a children's book editor. Manushkin studied at the University of Illinois and Roosevelt University. Come Let Us Be Joyful: The Story of Hava Nagila received a Notable Children's Book citation from the Association of Jewish Libraries in 2000. The catalogue lists 64 early-reader books from 2009 to 2021, with Katie Woo named in the subjects; titles include No More Teasing (2009), Boo, Katie Woo! (2010) and Pedro is Rich (2021).

Jacqueline Jules, born in 1956, is an American author and poet. The catalogue lists 16 early readers by Jules from My Family Adventure (2015) to Abuela's Birthday (2020). Subject tags include Hispanic American families and children, sisters, grandparents, singing and mice. My Vida Loca (2016), My Fantástica Family (2017) and Every Day Is Exciting (2018) are among the titles, and 2020 brought Abuela's Special Letters, Hector's Hiccups, Lights Out and Picture Perfect.

Andres Miedoso writes ghost and monster stories for grades 1 to 3. The Haunted House Next Door (2017) opens the catalogue, and the run keeps to short comic scares: Ghosts Don't Ride Bikes, Do They? (2017), Major Monster Mess (2018), Night of the Zombie Zookeeper (2018), The Scary Library Shusher (2018), The Sleepwalking Snowman (2019) and Beware the Werewolf (2020). Friendship, haunted places and moving house recur as subjects across 28 catalogued titles, the newest AI Told You So (2026).

Veronica Chambers is an Afro-Latina author, teacher and magazine executive. Chambers has written and edited for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek and Glamour. Her 26 catalogued books span 1995 to 2024, from The Harlem Renaissance to Ida. Mama's Girl (1996), the Amigas series and Marisol and Magdalena sit in the list, with quinceañera traditions, Panamanian Americans and friendship among the subjects.

Daniel A. Olivas is an American author and attorney with 13 catalogued books from 2000 to 2025. The Courtship of Maria Rivera Pena (2000) is the first title and Waiting for Godínez (2025) the newest. Assumption and Other Stories (2003), Devil Talk (2005), The Book of Want (2011) and How to Date a Flying Mexican (2022) are among the others. Subject headings include Mexican Americans, Hispanic American authors, interviews and social life and customs.

Monica Brown

9 books• 1 series

Mónica Brown, born in 1969, is an American academic and an author of children's literature. The Lola Levine and Sarai chapter books are the series Brown is known for, alongside biographies of Latin American figures such as Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez. Brown writes bicultural characters, among them the Peruvian-Scottish-American Marisol McDonald, and treats bicultural children as whole people rather than fractions of two cultures. Nine books are catalogued here between 2015 and 2026, most of them Lola Levine titles, with a Diana Taurasi biography dated 2022. Median length is 112 pages.

Suzanne Chazin is an American mystery writer with two series to the name. The Georgia Skeehan books, published by Putnam, follow a New York City woman firefighter who becomes a fire marshal; the Jimmy Vega Mystery books, published by Kensington, follow a homicide detective working among undocumented immigrants. Nine titles are catalogued between 2001 and 2021: The Fourth Angel (2001), Flashover, Fireplay, Land of Careful Shadows, A Blossom of Bright Light, No Witness But the Moon, A Place in the Wind, Voice with No Echo and The Fragile Edge (2021). Subjects record arson investigation, police procedure and Hispanic Americans.

Anne Schraff wrote for young readers across fiction and non-fiction, with 185 books catalogued from Black Courage (1969) to To Die for (2014). Subjects include biography, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, civil rights, history, high schools and mystery and detective stories. Series include Urban Underground, Standing Tall Mysteries, Pageturners Suspense, Take Ten Mystery, Choosing Your Way Through America's Past and several Passages lines. Bluford High appears among the characters linked to Schraff's books.

Wendelin Van Draanen is an American writer of children's and young-adult fiction. Sammy Keyes anchors the list, a mystery series opening with Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (1998) that names its case in every title, and the Shredderman and Gecko and Sticky books follow. Flipped (2001) stands outside the series. The catalogue holds 38 books between How I Survived Being a Girl (1997) and The Steps (2025), at a median of 256 pages.

Zoraida Córdova writes children's books and romance, and the Brooklyn Brujas series is the work Córdova is best known for. Córdova is Ecuadorian-American and publishes romance under the name Zoey Castile. The catalogue holds 23 books from The Vicious Deep (2012) to Beware the Nameless (2024), with The Savage Blue (2013), The Vast and Brutal Sea (2014), Labyrinth Lost (2016), Bruja Born (2018) and Galaxy's Edge: A Crash of Fate (2019) among them. Vicious Deep, On the Verge, Brooklyn Brujas, Hollow Crown and Wicked Holidays are the series recorded, and the subjects cover fantasy and paranormal fiction, witches, magic, mermaids and mermen, families and Hispanic Americans.

Deborah Zemke writes humorous children's books, and the catalogue lists 12 of them from The Way It Happened (1988) to The Tree and Me (2019). Zemke's series is Bea Garcia. Subjects include friendship, drawing, dogs, Hispanic Americans and lift-the-flap books. Other titles are Don't Feed the Babysitter to Your Boa Constrictor (2006), How to Win Friends and Influence Creatures (2009) and The Curse of Einstein's Pencil (2017).

Sandra Cisneros

15 books• 2 series

Sandra Cisneros, born December 20, 1954, is an American writer and a key figure in Chicano literature. The House on Mango Street (1984), Cisneros's first novel, and the short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) are the works Cisneros is best known for. Poetry follows in My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987), Loose Woman (1994) and Woman Without Shame (2022). Mexican American women, girls and adolescence recur among the recorded subjects. Cisneros holds a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and was named in 2017 to one of 25 Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships. The listing also carries critical volumes written about Cisneros's work rather than by Cisneros.

Kiki Thorpe is a former children's book editor who has written or adapted more than fifty books for children and now writes full time from San Francisco. The catalogue lists 98 books from Luna's Night (1999) to Magnificently Major (2023). Series include Disney Fairies: The Never Girls, Finding Tinker Bell, Bear in the Big Blue House, Bob the Builder, Jay Jay The Jet Plane, Meet the Kreeps and Horsetail Hollow. Fairies, magic, bears and friendship appear among the subjects.

Margarita Engle

40 books• 1 series

Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet who writes most of her books in verse, for children, young adults and adults alike. Cuban history and the natural world supply her subjects, from The Poet Slave of Cuba (2006) through The Surrender Tree (2008) and Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba (2009). The Surrender Tree made Engle the first Latino writer to receive a Newbery Honor, in 2009. Engle served as the sixth Young People's Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019 and won the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. Her catalogue runs to 40 books, beginning with Singing to Cuba (1993) and reaching Evamar (2026).

Suzanne Selfors writes fiction for readers in grades 3 to 5. Series include the Imaginary Veterinary, Smells Like Dog and Wedgie & Gizmo, with tie-in work for Ever After High and Spirit Riding Free. The catalogue lists 39 books from To Catch a Mermaid (2007) to Braver (2020), at a median of 240 pages. Schools, pets, magic and fairy tales run through the subject headings.

Karen English writes children's fiction, and library subjects for the books include African Americans, schools, friendship and family life. The 26 catalogued books run from 1996, when Big Wind Coming! and Neeny Coming, Neeny Going appeared, to Red Shoes (2020). English's two series are Nikki and Deja and Carver Chronicles. Other titles include Nadia's Hands (1999) and Hot Day on Abbott Avenue (2004). The catalogue is listed as likely complete.

Richard Blanco

12 books• 2 series

Richard Blanco, born in 1968, is an American poet, playwright, public speaker and civil engineer. Blanco read the poem One Today at Barack Obama's second inauguration, the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration and the first immigrant, first Latino and first openly gay person to do so. President Biden awarded Blanco the National Humanities Medal in 2022. The 12 catalogued books are mostly poetry collections, opening with City of a Hundred Fires (1998) and running through Looking for the Gulf Motel (2012), the memoir The Prince of Los Cocuyos (2014) and Homeland of My Body (2023).

Mario Acevedo is an American novelist and artist, born in El Paso, Texas, on July 6, 1955, and based in Denver, Colorado. Acevedo created an urban fantasy series about Felix Gomez, a vampire private investigator. Earlier jobs included military helicopter pilot, paratrooper, infantry officer, engineer, art teacher and software programmer, and Acevedo served as a soldier and artist for the U.S. Army in Operation Desert Storm. The 11 catalogued books run from The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (2006) to Steampunk Banditos (2018).

K.J.A. Wishnia has 8 catalogued books published between 1998 and 2010. Filomena Buscarsela is the series recorded against the name, and subjects list women private investigators, Hispanic American women, policewomen, single mothers and New York City. 23 Shades of Black (1998) is the earliest title and The Fifth Servant (2010) the latest. The list also carries Flat Rate and Other Tales of Mystery and Weirdness (1998) and Twentieth Century Ecuadorian Narrative (1999), alongside Soft Money, The Glass Factory, Red House and Blood Lake.