Juvenile literature 
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1. Celia Cruz
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"Meet the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz-once just a girl from Havana, Cuba, who loved to sing. Her soulful voice, compelling charm, and unstoppable determination led to her meteoric rise to fame, opening the door for Latinx performers everywhere. Her booming career took her from the Sonora Matancera to the Fania All-Stars, with the rising popularity of salsa, a genre born of Afro-Cuban musical stylings. Six decades and more than seventy albums later,...
2. Ellen Ochoa
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"Meet award-winning engineer and veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa--once just a girl from Los Angeles, California. The granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, Ellen would pursue a career in physics at a young age and go on to earn master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. In 1993, Ellen became the first Latina in space. As a retired astronaut, she became the first Hispanic and second female director of the Johnson...
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"A moving picture book for older children and families that introduces a difficult topic, amplifying the voices and experiences of immigrant children detained at the border between Mexico and the US. The children's actual words (from publicly available court documents) are assembled to tell one heartbreaking story, in both English and Spanish (back to back). Each spread is illustrated in striking full-color by a different Latinx artist. A portion...
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"The star of Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin ... presents her personal story in this middle-grade memoir about her parents' deportation and the ... struggles of undocumented immigrants and their American children"--
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A memoir "for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA"--
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"Meet Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente-once just a kid from Carolina, Puerto Rico, who loved to play baseball on the streets of his hometown with friends and family. As a right fielder, Roberto played eighteen seasons with Major League Baseball, but his life was tragically cut short when a plane he chartered to bring earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua crashed. The first Latin American player to be inducted into the National...
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In picture-book format, examines the life and career of Selena Quintanilla, the singer whose success in Tejano music and crossover into mainstream American music opened the door for other Latinx entertainers.
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"Meet Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor-once just a girl growing up in the Bronx, New York, with her brother and Puerto Rican-born parents. When Sonia was young, her mother emphasized the value of education, and Sonia would eventually graduate summa cum laude from Princeton University, receive a juris doctor from Yale Law School, and later serve as an assistant district attorney for New York County. Throughout her decades-long career, Sonia's...