This year's Brave Books exhibit, as well as this book list, celebrates children's and young adult literature of the US-México Borderlands and beyond, including books about the Mexican and Central American experience in both Latin America and the United States. The following books appear on our reading shelf this year: 

Picture Books

Dreamers, written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales

Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown, illustrated by John Parra 

La Frontera: El viaje con papá/My Journey with Papa by Alfredo Alva and Deborah Mills, illustrated by Claudia Navarro

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh

Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors by Roseanne Greenfield Thong, illustrated by John Parra 

Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Greenfield Thong, illustrated by John Parra

Listen to the Desert/Oye al desierto by Pat Mora, illustrated by Francisco X. Mora

Lucía the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonar Garza, illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez

My Tata's Remedies/Los remedios de mi tata by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford, illustrated by Antonio Castro L. 

Niño Wrestles the World, written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote, written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

The Princess & the Warrior, written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation, written and illustration by Duncan Tonatiuh 

Seven Pablos by Jorge Luján, illustrated by Chiara Carrer 

Yo Soy Muslim by Mark Gonzales, illustrated by Mehrdokht Amini

Children's Poetry & Novels in Verse

Angels Riding Bicycles/Los Ángeles Andan en Bicicleta by Francisco X. Alarcón, illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez

Confetti: Poems for Children by Pat Mora, illustrated by Enrique O. Sanchez 

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States, edited by Lori M. Carlson

Iguanas in the Snow/Iguanas en la nieve by Francisco X. Alarcón, illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez 

Laughing Tomatoes/Jitomates Risueños by Francisco X. Alarcón, illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez 

Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States, edited by Lori M. Carlson

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles

Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Young Adult

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenéz

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande

Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario

The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

The Last of the Menu Girls by Denise Chávez

The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz

The Smoking Mirror: Garza Twins, Book One by David Bowles

So Far From God by Ana Castillo

...Y no se lo tragó la tierra/..And the Earth Did Not Devour Him by Tomás Rivera