May Feature: Cinco de Mayo Meet the Author: Kaye Gibbons Reviewer Spotlight: Sarah H. Celebrity Reviewer: Robert Morgan Librarian's Choice Award: No Flying, No Tights Reading Recommendations

Cinco de Mayo – the fifth of May – commemorates the Mexican victory over the invading French forces of Napoleon III at The Battle of Puebla in 1862. It has, however, come to be a general celebration of Mexican, and Mexican-American, culture. Mexico is a diverse land rich in history and culture,immigrants from which add a wonderful dimension to life here in the United States. Reader’s Club joins in this celebration and invites you to learn about, and enjoy the wonders of, our neighbor to the south. Put some Santana on the stereo and kick back with a good book!

Recommended Reading from "Cinco de Mayo"

• Opening Mexico by J. Preston & S. Dillon.
• Diego Rivera by Hamill, Pete
• Caramelo, or, Pure Cuento by Cisneros, Sandra
• The Afterlife by Soto, Gary
• House on Mango Street by Cisneros, Sandra

Here is some of what Robert Morgan, author of Brave Enemies, had to say about his favorite book:

“The first book I ever bought with my own money was a paperback of Dr. Zhivago. I purchased the book in a drugstore in Greenville, S.C. in the late summer of 1960. It cost ninety-five cents, and was a revelation. Reading the love story of Yuri and Lara, in that Cold War time, gave me a new idea of the possibilities of fiction.”