Belpre Author Award
Kids and/or Teens
Recognizing outstanding work by a Latino/latina writer
The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The award is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Award Web Site: Belpré Award
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2020
- Sal & Gabi Break the Universe (Winner)
- Lety Out Loud (Honor)
- Planting Stories (Honor)
- Soldier for Equality (Honor)
- The Other Half of Happy (Honor)
2019
- The Poet X (Winner)
- They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems (Honor)
2018
- Lucky Broken Girl (Winner)
- The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora (Honor)
- The First Rule of Punk (Honor)
2017
- Juana & Lucas (Winner)
- The Only Road (Honor)
2016
- Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir (Winner)
- Mango, Abuela, and Me (Honor)
- The Smoking Mirror (Honor)
2015
- I Lived on Butterfly Hill (Winner)
- Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes (Honor)
2014
- Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (Winner)
- Pancho Rabbit and the coyote : a migrant's tale (Honor)
- The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist (Honor)
- The Living (Honor)
2013
2012
2011
- The Dreamer (Winner)
- 90 Miles to Havana (Honor)
- The Firefly Letters : a Suffragette's Journey to Cuba (Honor)
- ¡Ole! flamenco (Honor)