2024 Pura Belpre Award Winners and Honor BooksLike this list

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• Mexikid

  a Graphic Memoir

  Martin, Pedro, 1967-

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  This is the winner of the Children's Author Award AND the Youth Illustration Award! Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saints of the Household

  Tison, Ari,

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  The winner of the Young Adult Author Award! This a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer--that will take your breath away.

• Alebrijes

  Higuera, Donna Barba,

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  A Children's Author Honor Book. For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel -- or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aniana Del Mar Jumps in

  Méndez, Jasminne,

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  A Children's Author Honor Book. A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.

• Benita and the Night Creatures

  Llanos, Mariana,

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  A Children's Author Honor Book. Benita's not bothered by the spooky Peruvian creatures that come to visit her while she's reading in bed!

• Something Like Home

  Arango, Andrea Beatriz,

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  A Children's Author Honor Book. When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.

• The Prince & the Coyote

  Bowles, David (David O.),

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  A Young Adult Author Honor Book. Meet Prince Acolmiztli. Puma of the Acolhua People. Heir to his father's throne. Half Acolhuan, half Mexica. Singer. Warrior. Poet. Sixteen years old. And now, betrayed.

• Worm

  a Cuban American Odyssey

  Rodriguez, Edel,

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  A Young Adult Author Honor Book. A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there.