FIRST ANNUAL SUMMER READING LIST. READ LATINO LIT.
PRESS
RELEASE
Launches
First Annual 2015 Summer Reading List
“Connecting
Latinos all over the world through Literature”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Maria Ferrer
Media Relations Coordinatormferrer.lcbookclub@gmail.com
www.latinolit.com
Twitter: @ReadLatinoLit
Facebook: LasComadres
June 21, 2015; Austin, TX—Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club announces its first annual Summer Reading List to launch on Sunday, June 21, 2015, the first official day of Summer.
“We are launching a Summer Reading List,” said Edith Milagros Reyes, Book Club Project Manager, "to complement our monthly Book Club meetings and Teleconferences. Plus, it's in line with our mission to promote the work of Latina/o authors.”
The Book Club’s Summer Reading List has something for everyone. It’s comprised of five fiction books, three young adult books, three memoirs, two classics, one bilingual children’s book and one cookbook. Authors include Marjorie Agosin, the 2015 Pura Belpré Award Author Winner; Richard Blanco, the 2013 Inaugural Poet; Sonia Manzano of Sesame Street fame; and legendary authors Sandra Cisneros and Oscar Hijuelos.
2015 Summer Reading List
2. Ana of California: A
Novel by Andi Teran (YA) – Penguin Books
3. Becoming Maria: Love
and Chaos in the South Bronx by Sonia Manzano (memoir) – Scholastic Press
4. The Distant Marvels by
Chantel Acevedo (fiction) – Europa Editions
5. The Lady Matador’s
Hotel by Cristina Garcia (fiction) – Scribner (Simon & Schuster)
6. Empanadas: The
Hand-Held Pies of Latin America by Sandra Gutierrez (cookbook) – Stewart, Tabori and Chang (Abrams)
7. The Heart Has Its
Reasons by Maria Dueñas (fiction) – Atria Books
8. The House on Mango
Street by Sandra Cisneros (classic) – Vintage (Knopf Doubleday)
9. I Lived on Butterfly
Hill by Marjorie Agosin (YA) – Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Simon &
Schuster)
10. Just One Night by
Caridad Pineiro (romance fiction) – CreateSpace
11. Letters From Heaven/
Cartas del Cielo by Lydia Gil (children, bilingual) – Arte Publico
12. The Mambo Kings Play
Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (classic) – Hachette Book Group (and other
publishers)
13. The Prince of Los
Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood by Richard Blanco (memoir) – Ecco (HarperCollins)
14. Shutter by Courtney
Alameda (YA thriller) – Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan)
15. Stepdog by Mireya Navarro (memoir) – G.P. Putnam’s Sons
(Penguin)
Las Comadres Para Las Americas is the parent organization of
the Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club. It was started in Austin in 2000 and just
celebrated its Quinceañero. Today, Las Comadres has over 15,000 members
worldwide, and is on a mission to connect and empower Latinas everywhere
through community building, networking, culture, learning, technology and
literature. For more information on Las Comadres Para Las
Americas, visit www.lascomadres.com.
The Pura Belpré Awards are named after the first Latina
librarian at the New York Public Library, and presented annually to a Latina/o writer and illustrator. The award is co-sponsored by the Association for
Library Service to Children and REFORMA.
For more information about the Pura Belpré Awards, visit http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpremedal.
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