Freshman Book List

Latin America

 

Books marked with an * are available in the GHHS Library.

 

Young Adult Fiction

 

General Latin America

 

*The Honorable Prison by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins

 

Mayan Civilization

 

*The Captive by Scott O'Dell

 

Peru

 

*The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

 

*Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove

 

Short Stories

 

*And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America

 

*Contemporary Latin American Short Stories

 

*Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women

 

*Where Angels Glide at Dawn

 

Folk Tales

 

*The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest

 

*The Mythology of Mexico and Central America

 

Poetry

 

*Selected Poems of Octavio Paz

 

Biography

 

*Diego Rivera

 

*Frida Kahlo: Portrait of a Mexican Painter

 

*Jose Clemente Orozco: Mexican Artist

 

*The Life and Times of Simon Bolivar

 

  My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende - Chile/Adult

Non-Fiction

 

*Lost City of the Incas

 

*The Mexican Revolution

 

  Monteverde: Science and Scientists in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest

 

  News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Colombia/Adult

 

General

 

*The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature

 

Adult Fiction

(Although these books are reviewed as adult books for young adults, they may contain mature adult content.)

 

Costa Rica

 

  Assault on Paradise by Tatiana Lobo

 

Dominican Republic/Haiti/Cuba

 

  Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

 

  The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

 

  The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

 

  In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez

 

*In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

 

 Monkey Hunting by Cristina Garcia

 

Chile

 

  Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

 

 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

 

  Mexico

 

  Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros

 

  Frida: A Novel by Barbara Louise Mujica

 

  Uruguay

 

 The Tree of Red Stars by Tessa Bridal