Non-fiction. Latino/a Studies. Edited by Marjorie Agosin & Jacqueline C. Nanfito. Best known for her Nobel-Prize winning poetry, Gabriela Mistral also wrote prose, including the recados in this collection. These brief essays were, for the most part, first published in newspapers in Latin America. Mistral intended for them to be a kind of letter destined for a larger and more inclusive readership than that reached by her poetry. Writing about the women she admired, these recados provide a glimpse into Mistral's private world and reveal the strong emotional ties she had to women, as well as her feelings on equality and feminism.

Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl forced into hiding with her family by the Nazi regime that occupied the Netherlands in the Second World War. No one would have known of her, her family or their fate had it not been for the survival of the diary that she kept during this time, a book that has long been an inspiration to the poet and writer Marjorie Agosin. In her quest to introduce more young people to this tragic tale of the irrepressible Anne, the author provides a lyrical and engaging imagining of Anne's world. Through Anne's eyes, the reader is taken on the family's journey: their flight from Hitler's Germany, the excitement of a new start in Amsterdam and their eventual confinement in a small set of hidden rooms where they lived in fear of discovery, transportation and likely death.