Award-winning authors Lila and Rick Guzmán have created a delightful series of biographies for Hispanic Heritage Month and multicultural studies.

From his own experiences as a migrant farmworker, César Chávez knew about poverty and pain, discrimination and despair. He grew up with one goal: to make a difference. Chávez organized a labor union—which became the United Farm Workers Union—to demand higher wages and better working and living conditions.

Diego Rivera made his art available to everyone, rich or poor. In his lifetime, Rivera painted enough murals to stretch over a mile.

Ochoa became an engineer with important research and inventions to her credit—and the first Hispanic woman in space.

Frida Kahlo was eighteen years old when her body was crushed in a horrible bus accident. During her long, painful recovery, Kahlo taught herself to paint.

"I'm just an American guy who happens to be of Mexican descent," says George Lopez, who has achieved astounding success across cultural lines. How did the boy who started his life in poverty and misery end up living the American dream?

Roberto Clemente, the first great ballplayer from Puerto Rico. Despite physical pain from injuries and emotional pain from the racism of the 1960s, Clemente wowed major-league fans with his amazing fielding, throwing, and hitting.