Día de Muertos by Jacque Jours

Discover the meaning of Dia de Muertos and learn how children all around the world celebrate this festival. Pancho and his family are inviting you to celebrate with them! Join in as they prepare in the lead-up to the festival, setting up the ofrendas, finding photographs of beloved family members, decorating with flowers, cutting out skull patterns, cooking tamales, and enjoying a wonderful day with all the family. Seen through the eyes of young children celebrating themselves, this is a simple and exciting way to introduce little ones to this special period.

Wildcats Volume 1 by Crystal Velasquez

Mina is just an average middle schooler, but when she starts attending a new boarding school that her parents also attended, she and three other girls learn that they have generational powers that turn them into wildcats. Navigating this new reality, the girls will have to use their powers to figure out the mysterious temple that sits beneath the school's museum and defeat the evil forces that want to unleash chaos on the school and the world.

Pushing Hope: An Illustrated Memoir of Survival by Raymond Santana

When Raymond Santana was just 14, he was accused of a crime he didn’t commit. The 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park was pinned on Santana and four other young teens, a tragedy that would change their lives forever. In this powerful illustrated memoir, Raymond Santana takes readers on a journey from his move to Harlem to his arrest and trial, and from his time in prison to his ongoing fight for justice. Exonerated in 2002, Santana has made it his mission to fight wrongful convictions and injustice. What has sustained him and given him the strength for that fight is his creativity — art and fashion have always been a refuge and a source of hope.

This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira Diaz

From the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz, an epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tight-knit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico. When Maricarmen meets Rey el Cantante, beloved small-time Robin Hood and local musician on the rise, she begins to envision a life beyond the tight-knit community of el Caserío, Puerto Rico — beyond cleaning houses, beyond waiting tables, beyond the constant tug of war between the street hustlers and los camarones. But breaking free proves more difficult than she imagined, and she soon finds herself struggling to make a home for herself, for Rey, his young brother Tito, and eventually, their daughter Nena. Until one fateful day, everything changes. 15 years later, Maricarmen and Nena find themselves in the middle of a murder investigation as the community that once rallied to support Rey turns against them. Now, Nena, a teenager haunted by loss and betrayal and exploring her sexual identity, must learn to fight for herself and her family in a world not always welcoming.

This is the Only Kingdom is an immersive and moving portrait of a family — and a community — torn apart by generational grief, and a powerful love letter to mothers, daughters, and the barrios that make them.

The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life by Shahir Samir Rizk & Maggie M. Fink

Proteins link all life on Earth and enable its most astonishing capacities — from a firefly's glow to the navigational abilities of migrating birds to human emotional experience. The Color of North explores the curious biology and immense impact of proteins, as well as the potential of engineered proteins to treat disease and restore our planet.