Additional Piñata Books for Young Adults


Fitting In

Anilú Bernardo

2005, 208 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-437-6

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #35022

Winner, 1997 Paterson Prize for

Books for Young People and the 1997 Skipping Stones

Honor Award

Available in Spanish as:

Quedando bien

Anilú Bernardo

Spanish translation by Rosario Sanmiguel

2006, 240 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-474-1, $9.95, Ages 11 and up

Trino’s Choice

Diane Gonzales Bertrand

1999, 128 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-268-6

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #35007

Named to the 2001-2002 Texas Lone Star Reading List; “Best Book of the Year,” Young Adult category, ForeWord Magazine; and Recipient, Austin Writers’ League Teddy Award for Best Children’s Book

Available in Spanish as:

El dilema de Trino

Diane Gonzales Bertrand

Spanish translation by Julia Mercedes Castilla

2005, 144 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-458-1, $9.95, Ages 11 and up

Trino’s Time

Diane Gonzales Bertrand

2001, 176 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-317-1

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #54653

Named to The New York Public Library’s Books

for the Teen Age 2002

Available in Spanish as:

El momento de Trino

Diane Gonzales Bertrand

Spanish translation by Rosario Sanmiguel

2006, 192 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-473-4, $9.95, Ages 11 and up

The Ruiz Street Kids

Los muchachos de la calle Ruiz

Diane Gonzales Bertrand

Spanish translation by

Gabriela Baeza Ventura

2006, 224 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-321-8

$9.95, Ages 8-12, Accelerated Reader Quiz

#113860

Recipient, 2007 Skipping Stones Honor Award; Winner, 2007 International Latino Book Award—Best Young Adult Fiction-Bilingual; and Finalist, 2007-2008 Tejas Star Book Award

Upside Down and Backwards

De cabeza y al revés

Diane Gonzales Bertrand

Spanish translation by Karina Hernández Line

drawings by Pauline Rodriguez

Howard

2004, 64 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-408-6

$9.95, Ages 8-12

Special Recognition, 2005 Paterson Prize for-Young People, and Finalist, 2005 Teddy Children’s Book Award

Desert Passage

P. S. Carrillo

2008, 192 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-517-5

$10.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #127758

El año de nuestra revolución Cuentos y poemas

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Spanish translation by Elena Olazagasti-

Segovia

2006, 128 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-472-7

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Riding Low on the Streets of Gold

Latino Literature for Young Adults

Edited by Judith Ortiz Cofer

2003, 192 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-380-5

$14.95, Ages 11 and up

Windows into My World

Latino Youth Write Their Lives

Edited by Sarah Cortez

Introduction by Virgil Suárez

2007, 272 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-482-6

$14.95, Ages 16 and up

Recipient, 2008 Skipping Stones Honor Award

Chicken Foot Farm

Anne Estevis

2008, 160 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-505-2

$10.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #123847

Finalist, Texas Institute of Letters 2008 Literary Awards

Mi sueño de América

My American Dream

Yuliana Gallegos

English translation by Georgina Baeza

2007, 64 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-485-7

$9.95, Ages 8-12

Accelerated Reader Quiz #120117

Winner, International Latino Book Award—Best Young Adult Nonfiction–Bilingual

Rattling Chains and Other Stories for

Children

Ruido de cadenas y otros cuentos

para niños

Nasario García

2009, 160 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-544-1

$9.95, Ages 8-12

Creepy Creatures and Other Cucuys

Xavier Garza

2004, 144 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-410-9

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

A So-Called Vacation

Genaro González

2009, 192 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-545-8

$10.95, Ages 14 and up

The Throwaway Piece

Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández

2006, 192 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-353-9

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #108531

Winner, 2007 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, Finalist; ForeWord Magazine’s Best Book of the Year 2006; Named to The New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2007; and Winner, University of California, Irvine’s Chicano / Latino Literary Prize

The Truth about Las Mariposas

Ofelia Dumas Lachtman

2007, 144 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-494-9

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Versos sencillos / Simple Verses

José Martí

English translation by Manuel A. Tellechea

1997, 128 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-204-4

$12.95, Ages 11 and up

Named to the 1999–2000 Houston Area Independent School Library Network Recommended Reading List

My Own True Name: New and

Selected Poems for Young Adults,

1984–1999

Pat Mora

Drawings by Anthony Accardo

2000, 96 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-292-1

$11.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #47265

Brujas, lechuzas y espantos

Witches, Owls and Spooks

Alonso M. Perales

English translation by John Pluecker

2008, 96 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-512-0

$9.95, Ages 8-12

The Case of the Pen Gone Missing

El caso de la pluma perdida

A Mickey Rangel Mystery

Colección Mickey Rangel, detective

privado

René Saldaña, Jr.

Spanish translation by Carolina Villarroel

2009, 96 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-555-7

$9.95, Ages 8-12

Teen Angel

A Roosevelt High School Series Book

Gloria Velásquez

2003, 160 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-391-1

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #85593

Tyrone’s Betrayal

A Roosevelt High School Series Book

Gloria Velásquez

2006, 144 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-465-9

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #110766

The Almost Murder and Other

Stories

Theresa Saldana

2008, 144 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-507-6

$10.95, Ages 11 and up

Alamo Wars

Ray Villareal

2008, 192 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-513-7

$10.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #123846

My Father, the Angel of Death

Ray Villareal

2006, 192 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-466-6

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #110738

Named to The New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2007, and Nominated, 2008-2009 Texas Library Association’s Lone Star Reading List

Who’s Buried in the Garden?

Ray Villareal

2009, 160 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-546-5

$10.95, Ages 11 and up

Walking Stars

Victor Villaseñor

2003, 208 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-394-2

$10.95, Ages 11 and up

Accelerated Reader Quiz #35002

Available in Spanish as:

Estrellas peregrinas

Cuentos de magia y poder

Victor Villaseñor

Spanish translation by Alfonso González

2005, 144 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-462-8

$9.95, Ages 11 and up

Scratch and the Pirates

of Paradise Cove

Ricardo Means Ybarra

2008, 96 pages, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-55885-525-0

$9.95, Ages 8-12