Here’s some:
CENTRAL AMERICA
Heritage History: http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=civ&MenuItem=hispanic
All ages:
Cultural Atlas for Young People: Ancient America – Marion Wood
Gr. 4-6
Overview:
First Book of Central America and Panama – Patricia Markum
Incans, Aztecs and Mayans – John Holzmann (history of three civilizations from a Biblical perspective)
First Book of the Ancient Maya – Barbera Beck
Latin American Folktales – John Bierhorst
MEXICO
Overview:
Mexico – R. Conrad Stein
History of Mexico – Amy Hunter
Gr. 4-6
You Wouldn’t Want to be an Aztec Sacrifice – Fiona Macdonald (pre-columbian Mexico)
The Ancient Aztecs – Liz Sonneborn
Cortes of Mexico – Ronald Syme
By Right of Conquest – G. A. Henty (Aztecs-1519-1521)
Walk the World’s Rim – Betty Baker (1528-1537)
Nacar the White Deer – Elizabeth de Trovino (1876)
Horse Hooves and chicken feet: Mexican folktales – Neil Philip(12 traditional tales, Catholic heritage)
Francis Coronado and the Seven cities of Gold – Ronald Syme (gr. 4-12)
Conquista! – Clyde Bulla (time of Coronado)
SOUTH AMERICA
Gr. 4-6
Enchantment of the World Series has a book on each country.
First Book of the Incas – Barbera Beck
Machu Pichu – Elizabeth Mann (story of the religious city sacred to the Incas)
You Wouldn’t Want o be an Inca Mummy – Colin Hynson (lighthearted)
Man Who Discovered the Amazon – Ronald Syme ( 1538-1541)
Balboa: Swordsman and Conquistador – Felix Reisenburg
Francisco Pizarro – Sandra Kachurek
Treasure of the Incas – G.A. Henty (1475-1519)
With Cochrane the Dauntless – G.A. Henty (1820)
Out on the Pampas – G.A. Henty ( Argentina 1871 )
Secret of the Andes – Ann Nolan Clark (Inca boy growing up)
Life in Ancient S. America – Hazel Richardson
The Ancient Inca – Patricia Calvert
