Barrio Rising: The Protest That Built Chicano Park
by María Dolores Águila and Magdalena Mora
(Finalist, 2025)
Warrior Girl
by Carmen Tafolla
(Finalist, 2024)
The Last Beekeeper
by Pablo Cartaya
(Finalist, 2023)
Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation
by Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Leslie Staub
(Honor, 2016)
Sylvia & Aki
by Winifred Conkling
(Winner, 2012)
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
by Tim Tingle, illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges
(Honor, 2007)
The Composition
by Antonio Skarmeta and Alfonso Ruano
(Winner, 2001)
Journey of the Sparrows
by Fran Leeper Buss
(Winner, 1992)
Children of the Maya
by Brent K. Ashabranner
(Honor, 1987)
Lupita Mañana
by Patricia Beatty
(Honor, 1982)
Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice
by Anna Lapera
(Finalist, 2025)
Spanish Is the Language of My Family
by Michael Genhart and John Parra
Linked
by Gordon Korman
(Finalist, 2022)
Julián is a Mermaid
by Jessica Love
(Honor, 2019)
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
by Duncan Tonatiuh
(Winner, 2015)
The Storyteller’s Candle / La velita de los cuentos
(Honor, 2009)
by Lucia M. Gonzalez, illustrated by Lulu Delacre
Poems to Dream Together / Poemas para sonar juntos
by Francisco X. Alarcón, illustrated by Paula Barragan
(Honor, 2006)
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales
(Winner, 2004)
The Most Beautiful Place in the World
by Ann Cameron, illustrated by Thomas Burt Allen
(Honor, 1989)
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez
by María Dolores Águila
(Finalist, 2026)
Undercover Latina
by Aya de León
(Winner, 2023)
¡Mambo Mucho Mambo!: The Dance That Crossed Color Lines
by Dean Robbins, illustrated by Eric Velasquez
(Finalist, 2023)
Land of the Cranes
by Aida Salazar
(Honor, 2021)
The Day You Begin
by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López
(Winner, 2019)
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom
by Margarita Engle
(Winner, 2009)
The Color of My Words
by Lynn Joseph
(Honor, 2001)
Nilda
by Nicholasa Mohr
(Winner, 1974)
Viva La Raza!: The Struggle of the Mexican-American People
by Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
(Honor, 1975)
The Pecan Sheller
by Lupe Ruiz-Flores
(Finalist, 2026)
Until Someone Listens
by Estela Juarez, Lissette Norman, illustrated by Teresa Martínez
(Finalist, 2023)
A Seed in the Sun
by Aida Salazar
(Finalist, 2023)
Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny
by Margarita Engle
(Finalist, 2023)
Treasure of the World
by Tara Sullivan
(Finalist, 2022)
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
by Alda P. Dobbs
(Finalist, 2022)
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
by Margarita Engle
(Honor, 2015)
Esperanza Rising
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
(Winner, 2001)
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
by Francisco Jiménez
(Honor, 1998)
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Américas Award
Founded to encourage and commend authors, illustrators, and publishers who produce quality children’s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States, and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use. Find out more here.
Pura Belpre Award
Sponsored by the American Library Association, honoring Latino/Latina writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. Find out more here.
Tomas Rivera Book Award
Honoring authors and illustrators who create children’s literature depicting the Mexican American experience that is accurate and engaging, avoid stereotypes, and reflects rich characterization. Find out more here.