Last Updated: February 14, 2026
Abuelita’s Song
by Gloria Amescua
A bilingual story celebrating family and the music that connects us all. (Picture Book)
El Español es la Lengua de Mi Familia
de Michael Genhart
Un niño comparte el amor del español con su amada abuela. A young boy bonds with his beloved abuela over a love of Spanish. (Spanish Picture Book)
Eyes that Weave the World’s Wonders
by Joanna Ho with Liz Kleinrock
A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents’. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her birth mom and comes to appreciate both her birth culture and her adopted family’s culture, for even though they may seem very different, they are both a part of her, and that is what makes her beautiful. She learns to appreciate the differences in her family and celebrate them. (Picture Book)
The Interpreter
by Olivia Abtahl
Some kids have one job: to be a kid! Cecilia has two. When she isn’t on the soccer field scoring goals, she’s accompanying her parents to all kinds of grown-up places, like the DMV, the accountant’s office, and the auto shop. She helps them translate from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish. It’s an important job, and it can even be fun. It’s also hard work. Sometimes Cecilia’s second job is so much responsibility, it feels like she’ll split in two! Is it time for Cecilia to blow her whistle and call for a time-out? (Picture Book)
New Shoes for Leo
by Lauren Agra Deedy
Every year William’s family sends a package of food, clothing, and medicine to their family in Cuba, but this year they realize they have forgotten to include new shoes for Leo. (Picture Book)
Pepita y Bebita
de Ruth Behar y Gabriel Frye-Behar
Cuando la perrita Pepita y la bebé, Bebita, se conocen, necesitarán algo de tiempo y mucho amor para convertirse en las mejores amigas. Family pup Pepita must learn how to welcome a fussy new baby into the home. (Spanish Picture Book)
Horse and Zebra’s Family Vacation
by Whitney Sanderson
Zebra invites Horse to join her on a trip home to the savannah. Horse likes meeting Zebra’s family and friends, but she soon feels homesick for her cozy stable and daily routine. Zebra figures out how to help Horse feel comfortable while she is far from home, and Horse learns that new experiences can be fun. (Early Reader)
Immigrating Cousin
by Marzieh A. Ali
Nadia and Nadir’s cousin and her parents are immigrating to Houston. They can’t wait to show their family around. When Zahra and her parents arrive, Nadia and Nadir teach them new things about living and going to school in the US. (Early Reader)
Break
by Kayla Miller
Spring Break is full of possibilities…but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway across the world. She would rather spend time with her friend Bree or scrolling through her new phone to keep up with everything she’s missing back home than catch up with him. As the week winds on, the normally easygoing Olive finds feelings of loneliness and resentment throwing her out of whack. Is there any hope of salvaging the visit–or will Olive’s Spring Break be a Spring Bust? (Graphic Novel)
Crumble
by Meredith McClarren and Andrea Bell
Emily, her mom, and her aunt, who can magically bake emotions into the desserts sold at their family bakery, have a rule against baking bad feelings; but when Aunt Gina is killed in a car accident, Emily bakes her grief into a crumble and discovers the reason behind the rule. (Graphic Novel)
Outsider Kids
by Betty C. Tang
After seven months on their own as undocumented immigrants, the Lin siblings have settled into their new lives in California. Jia-Xi (Jesse) has a new job, Ke-Gang (Jason) has a new crush, and Feng-Li (Ann) is excited to celebrate her eleventh birthday with her new friends. Their parents still await visa approval in Taiwan, so the trio is trying to take better care of one another and stay under the radar of immigration authorities. But when their stuck-up cousin Josephine–a violin prodigy–arrives with her privilege and demands, suddenly their world is in turnaround. Will they have to give up the life they worked so hard to achieve? (Graphic Novel)
The Anxious Exile of Sara Salt
by Gabrielle Prendergast
In this middle-grade novel told in letters, when Sara Salt’s little brother is born early, her mom and stepdad send her to stay in Toronto with her half-sister Abby, who is starting a transitional housing park for unhoused people. (Fiction)
Shark Teeth
by Sherry Winston
Seventh-grader Sharkita “Kita” embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother’s alcoholism. (Fiction)
The Strongest Heart
by Saadia Faruqi
Mo got used to tuning out his father’s rage, and after mama leaves, Mo and Abbu move to Texas to live with family, but as Mo starts to see a future, he knows the monster within his father can come anytime. (Fiction)