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Reviews of the 2024 Pura Belpré YA Award Winners

Winner Saints of the Household by Ari Tison High School    Farrar    320 pp. 3/23    9780374389499    $19.99 REVIEW TO COME             Honor Books The Prince and the Coyote by David Bowles; illus. by Amanda Mijangos High School    Levine/Levine Querido    440 pp. 10/23 ...

Reviews of the 2024 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winners

Winner Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School    Dial    320 pp. 8/23    9780593462287    $24.99 Paper ed.  9780593462294    $14.99 e-book ed.  9780593462300    $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather...

Reviews of the 2024 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners

Winner Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School    Dial    320 pp. 8/23    9780593462287    $24.99 Paper ed.  9780593462294    $14.99 e-book ed.  9780593462300    $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather...

Reviews of the 2023 Pura Belpré YA Award Winners

Winner Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado High School    Sourcebooks Fire    352 pp.    g 5/22    978-1-7282-4600-0    $18.99 In this horror novel grounded in a real-world setting, sixteen-year-old Raquel’s life is upended when her friend disappears — part of a pattern of unexplained ­disappearances — and her mother is...

Reviews of the 2023 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winners

Winner Where Wonder Grows by Xelena González; illus. by Adriana M. Garcia Primary    Cinco Puntos/Lee & Low    40 pp. 10/22    9781947627468    $17.95 e-book ed  9781947627475    $17.95 REVIEW TO COME     Honor Books Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Anika Aldamuy...

Reviews of the 2023 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners

Winner Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega; illus. by Rose Bousamra Intermediate    First Second    224 pp.    g 10/22    978-1-250-25962-2    $21.99 Paper ed.  978-1-250-25963-9    $12.99 In a graphic novel that takes on antiblackness and colorism, every Sunday Marlene must sit for hours at the beauty salon while her...

Reviews of the 2022 Pura Belpré YA Award Winners

Winner How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland High School    Simon    432 pp.    g 8/21    978-1-5344-4866-7    $19.99 REVIEW TO COME             Honor Books Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa High School   ...

Reviews of the 2022 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winners

Winner ¡Vamos!: Let’s Cross the Bridge by Raúl the Third; illus. by the author; color by Elaine Bay Primary    Versify/Houghton    48 pp.    g 10/21    978-0-358-38040-5    $14.99 REVIEW TO COME       Honor Books Boogie Boogie, Y'all by C. G. Esperanza; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary    Tegen/HarperCollins   ...

Reviews of the 2022 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners

Winner The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera Middle School    Levine Querido    336 pp.    g 8/21    978-1-64614-089-3    $17.99 When a solar flare knocks Halley’s Comet off course and sends it hurtling toward Earth, a small group of citizens is selected to leave the planet and colonize a new one to...
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