Laurie Coulter, Secrets in Stone All about Maya Hieroglyphs. This book treats not only hieroglyphs but also the history of the ancient Maya, the Mayan calendar and counting, the history of the archaeological discovery of Mayan ruins; and Mayan myth. 48 pages, wonderfully illustrated.
Kristine L. Franklin, Out of the Dump Writing and Photographs by Children of Guatemala. Excellent. Makes the poorest children of Guatemala real to U.S. children, and leads readers to admiration, not to pity.
Ben Mickaelsen, Tree Girl. Novel of a girl fleeing the Guatemalan army and the destruction of her family and community during the Guatemalan Civil War of the 1980s. A denunciation of the role of the U.S. in supporting and training the Guatemalan military.
Burgos Debray, Elisabeth, Ed. I, Rigoberta Menchú
David Stoll, Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
Stephen C. Schlesinger, Bitter Fruit the Story of the American Coup in Guatemala.
Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala.
Dennis Tedlock, Popol Vuh The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings (1996)
Dennis Tedlock, Breath on the Mirror Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya
Barbara Tedlock, Time and the Highland Maya
James D. Sexton, Mayan Folktales Folklore from Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
Victor Montejo, The Bird Who Cleans the World and other Mayan Fables
Martin Prechtel, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village.
Mr. President. Harrowing novel by Guatemala's Nobel Prize winning novelist, Miguel Angel Asturias, based on the manipulations and murders of a Guatemalan dictator of the 1920s.
Miguel Angel Asturias, Men of Corn. Epic novel of a myth-immersed leader of a Mayan rebellion in the nineteenth century.
Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens.
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