I came here through the Carnival link, and wow, this post is fantastic. I am always looking for books that fill your criteria for my own reading, but in the last couple of years I have been advising a middle school teacher on building her DEAR shelf, and she has created several seventh-grade classrooms of science fiction and fantasy nerds (yay!) -- most of whom are Latino, and so they are now hooked on a genre which never shows them. (Are there *any* Latino main characters in fantasy or science fiction for children and young adults?)

anyway, I now have nine requested books through my Library interlibrary loan service, so thank you so incredibly much.