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Pura Belpré Award - Authors
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Best books by authors and illustrators of Latino culture. Began in 1996. Pura Belpré website 12 listings found. |
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Sa´enz, Benjamin Alire Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before. 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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1996 Ortiz Cofer, Judith An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American surroundings. 1995 Teen Fiction Book ORTIZ COF |
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1998 Martinez, Victor Parrot in the Oven Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Chicano family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle. 1996 Teen Fiction Book MARTINEZ |
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2000 Ada, Alma Flor Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba The author recalls her life and impressions growing up in Cuba. 1998 Children's Nonfiction Book 921 Ad02 |
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2002 Ryan, Pam Munoz Esperanza Rising Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth in Mexico to work in the labor camps of California. They must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. 2000 Children's Fiction Book RYAN |
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2004 Alvarez, Julia Before We Were Free In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo. 2004 Teen Fiction Book ALVAREZ |
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2006 Canales, Viola The Tequila Worm Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her comadres. 2005 Teen Fiction Book CANALES |
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2008 Engle, Margarita The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano Juan Francisco Manzano was born in 1797 into the household of wealthy slaveowners in Cuba. He spent his early years at the side of his owner's wife, entertaining her friends. His poetry was his outlet, reflecting the beauty and cruelty of his world. 2006 Children's Nonfiction Book 921 M3195 |
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2009 Engle, Margarita The Surrender Tree : Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom In 1896 Cuba had fought three wars for independence and still was not free. People had been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa was a nurse, but she dared not go to the camps. So she turned hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish — Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? 2008 Teen Nonfiction Book 811.6 En35 |
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2010 Alvarez Return to Sender After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders. 2009 Children's Fiction Book ALVAREZ |
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2011 Ryan, Pam Munoz The Dreamer A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world. 2010 Children's Fiction Book RYAN |
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2012 McCall, Guadalupe Garcia Under the Mesquite Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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