"From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate, Alejandra Campoverdi, comes a riveting and unflinching memoir on navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina, offering a broad examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer. To be a First and Only in America is a delicate balancing act of surviving where you come from while acting like you belong where you're going. Alejandra Campoverdi has been...

Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century.

"In her own writing style of Spanglish, which weaves Spanish and English together, Alfie Casaus Salazar, shares her memories. These memories include moving from a rural community in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado, to a small neighborhood in Pueblo called Salt Creek. It was the early 1940s, a time when the world was fighting in World War II. Work at the CF&I Steel Mill brought many people to Pueblo, including Alfie's family...In spite of...

Introduces the life and accomplishments of the Mexican American singer Selena in English and Spanish, along with a brief biography in English.

The story of a Chicana drummer who forged paths of feminism, freedom, and human rights into her all-girl punk rock band in the nineties.

Shares the story of how teacher Dolores Huerta came to fight for the rights of her community's farm workers--who were poorly paid and worked under dangerous conditions--to ensure fair and safe working conditions for the migrant workers.