Latina Moms | Daughters
You don’t look like an abuela, and you don’t feel like one either. You’ve nary a gray hair in sight and you could swear that your own kid just got out of diapers. But if you’re the mother of a pregnant teen, you don’t have a choice: you’re going to be a grandma, like it [...]
Latinos are the largest minority population on college campuses today. However, many still face barriers to higher education because they have unusual family circumstances. They may have lived outside the home, have divorced parents, have parents who are undocumented, or may be undocumented themselves, just to name a few examples. NerdScholar’s recently released FAFSA Guide [...]
You open the door and there it is—your teenager’s bedroom. No matter how responsible, well-behaved and great your teen might be, you’ve probably happened upon this scene before: piles of laundry cover the carpet, the bed is unmade, dirty dishes are stacked on the bedside table, the desk surface is not visible beneath books and [...]
Under the Mesquite By Guadalupe Garcia McCall Lee & Low • 2011 • 224 pages Hardcover ($17.95) ISBN: 978-1600604294 Ages 12 and up No matter how bad things get, I can always be found here, planted firmly in what’s left of Mami’s rose garden with a pen in my hand, leaning against this same sturdy [...]
Bella Thorne is changing the face of the child superstar. At only 15, she has a new record deal in the works, upcoming roles, and a ton of humanitarian work. We sat down with the part Cuban beauty and talked career, Latism, and fashion. Imagine being a Latina whose first language was Spanish, [...]
Wizards of Waverly Place is back for a reunion special tonight on Disney Channel. Take a look at how Alex (Selena Gomez) and Teresa (Maria Canals-Barrera) have transformed their style throughout the years! Simple Elegance Wizards of Waverly Place started with a conservative approach. Note how they have the character of Teresa, played [...]
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist By Margarita Engle Harcourt • 2013 • 192 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-0-547-80743-0 Ages 12 and up Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda was ahead of her times in many ways. A young member of the wealthy class of Cuba in the 1820s, she was expected to do just one thing [...]
Our Los Tweens team was invited by our amiga Jeannette Kaplun of Hispana Global to join her for an annual Passover celebration presented by the Latin American committee of the Miami AJC. It is a beautiful celebration of liberty and so many traditions that help retrace the history of freedom from slavery of the Jewish people. [...]
You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens Edited by Sarah Cortez Piñata Books • 2011 • 320 pages Paperback ($16.95) ISBN: 978-1-55885-692-9 Ages 11 and up The stories gathered here by editor and contributor Cortez are not necessarily mysteries in the typical sense of whodunits or police procedurals. In fact, they run [...]
Going to college is not getting any cheaper and imminent financial aid budget cuts are not helping either. That is why Latinos must take advantage of scholarships to make their higher education endeavors a reality. A recent study by NerdScholar found that the greatest number of scholarship deadlines and the largest pool of money to [...]
