Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023

Created on February 8, 2022, 11:49 am

Last Updated January 30, 2023, 9:16 am

Named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library, the medal honors Latinx writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latinx cultural experience in the United States in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. Nombrado en honor a Pura Belpré, la primera bibliotecaria latina en la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York, la distinción rinde homenaje a los escritores e ilustradores latinos cuyas obras constituyen el mejor reflejo, afirmación y celebración de la experiencia cultural latina en Estados Unidos reflejada en la literatura infantil.

Author

Ortega, Claribel A

Notes

Winner of the 2023 Children's Author Award

Formats:

eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

Description

Winner of the 2023 Pura Belpré Award for Children's Text
Winner of the 2023 Eisner for Best Publication for Kids
October 2022 Indie Bestseller
New York Times-bestselling author Claribel A. Ortega and star debut artist Rose Bousamra's Frizzy is about Marlene, a young Dominican girl whose greatest enemy is the hair salon! Through her struggles and triumphs, this heartwarming and gorgeous middle-grade graphic novel

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2) Burn down, rise up

Author

Tirado, Vincent

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Winner of the 2023 Young Adult Author Award

Formats:

Book - Hardback, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.

3) How Moon Fuentez fell in love with the universe

Author

Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel

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2022 Young Adult Author Award Winner

Description

When seventeen-year-old Star Fuentez reaches social media stardom, her polar-opposite twin, Moon, becomes "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and the grumpy but attractive Santiago Philips.

4) ¡vamos! let's cross the bridge

Author

Raúl the Third

Series

World of ¡Vamos!

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2022 Youth Illustrator Award Winner/Ganador del premio de Ilustración

Description

People are always crossing the bridge for work, to visit family, or for play. Some going this way; others going that way. Back and forth they go. With friends on foot and in bicycles, in cars and trucks, the bridge is an incredibly busy place with many different types of vehicles. Little Lobo and his dog Bernabé have a new truck and they are using it to carry party supplies over the bridge with their pals El Toro and La Oink Oink. The line is long...

5) Efrén Divided : a novel

Author

Cisneros, Ernesto

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2021 winner for narrative

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efr?n Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.

6) ¡Vamos! Let's go eat!

Author

Raúl the Third

Series

World of vamos!

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2021 winner for illustration / Ganador del premio de Ilustración 2021

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabé, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000.

7) Sal and Gabi break the universe

Author

Hernandez, Carlos Alberto Pablo

Series

Sal and Gabi novels volume 1

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2020 winner for narrative

Formats:

Book, Book - Paperback

Description

In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.

8) Dancing hands: how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln

Author

Engle, Margarita

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2020 winner for illustration

Description

In soaring words and stunning illustrations, Margarita Engle and Rafael L?pez tell the story of Teresa Carre?o, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln.

Author

Acevedo, Elizabeth

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2019 winner for narrative

Formats:

Book, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

Publisher Annotation: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers?especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who...

Author

Notes

2019 winner for illustration

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--

Author

Notes

Ganador del premio de Ilustración 2019

Formats:

Book - Hardback, eBook, Kindle

Description

"This Spanish edition of Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales's Dreamers, published simultaneously with the English edition, is the author's own immigration story and a tribute to the transformative power of hope. and reading. In 1994, 25-year-old Yuyi Morales traveled from her home in Xalapa, Mexico, to the San Francisco Bay Area with her two-month-old son, Kelly, in order to secure permanent residency in this country. Her passage was not easy and she...

12) Lucky broken girl

Author

Notes

2018 winner for narrative

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

Description

In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.

13) La princesa and the pea

Author

Elya, Susan Middleton

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2018 winner for illustration

Description

"A rhyming twist on a classic fairy tale in which a queen places a pea under a young lady's mattress to see if she is truly a princess. Incorporates Spanish words and Includes a glossary"--

14) Juana & Lucas

Author

Series

Juana and Lucas volume 1

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2017 winner for narrative

Description

Juana loves many things drawing, eating Brussels sprouts, living in Bogot?, Colombia, and especially her dog, Lucas, the best amigo ever. She does not love wearing her itchy school uniform, solving math problems, or going to dance class. And she especially does not love learning the English. Why is it so important to learn a language that makes so little sense? But when Juana's abuelos tell her about a special trip they are planning one that Juana...

15) Lowriders to the Center of the Earth

Author

Series

Low riders volume 2

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2017 winner for illustration

Formats:

Book, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

Description

Three lowrider-loving friends ride to the center of the earth to rescue their cat from an Aztec god in this graphic novel fantasy adventure.

Lupe Impala, El Chabo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria are living the dream—they are the proud owners of their very own garage. But when their beloved cat, Genie, goes missing, they must embark on a wild road trip through a mysterious corn maze, into the center of the earth, and down to the

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16) Drum dream girl: how one girl's courage changed music

Author

Engle, Margarita

Notes

2016 winner for illustration

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.

17) I lived on Butterfly Hill

Author

Agosín, Marjorie

Series

Butterfly Hill volume 1

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2015 winner for narrative

Description

When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear."

18) Viva Frida!

Author

Notes

Ganador del premio de Ilustración 2015 / 2015 winner for illustration

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook

Description

With spare text and vibrant illustrations, this book examines Frida Kahlo's creative process.

19) Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass

Author

Notes

2014 winner for narrative

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Piddy Sanchez is a target of a bully. After a lot of harassment, she eventually does the right thing and tells that she is being bullied.