Freshman Book List
Books marked with an * are available in the GHHS
Library.
Young Adult Fiction
General
*The Honorable Prison by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
Mayan Civilization
*The Captive by Scott O'Dell
*The
*Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove
Short Stories
*And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from
*Contemporary Latin American Short Stories
*Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women
*Where Angels Glide at Dawn
Folk Tales
*The Enchanted
*The Mythology of
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.)
Assault on
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
Daughter of
Fortune by Isabel Allende
The House of
the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Caramelo by
Sandra Cisneros
Frida: A Novel by
Barbara Louise Mujica
The Tree of Red
Stars by Tessa Bridal