Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature - Children/Young Adult

Awards List

2015

Silver People
(Winner)
Margarita Engle

Migrant
(Honor Book)
Jose Manual Mateo

Green Is a Chile Pepper
(Commended)
Roseanne Thong

Caminar
(Commended)
Skila Brown

The Secret Side of Empty
(Commended)
Maria E. Andreu

Abuelo
(Commended)
Arthur Dorros

Dalia's Wondrous Hair
(Commended)
Laura Lacamara

'Twas Nochebuena
(Commended)
Roseanne Thong

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
(Commended)
Isabel Quintero

Low Riders in Space
(Commended)
Cathy Camper

2014

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
(Honor Book)
Duncan Tonatiuh

Round Is a Tortilla
(Commended)
Roseanne Thong

Tito Puente, Mambo King
(Commended)
Monica Brown

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
(Commended)
Meg Medina

Maria Had a Little Llama
(Commended)
Angela Dominguez

Serafina's Promise
(Commended)
Ann E. Burg

2013

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
(Winner)
Sonia Manzano

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
(Commended)
Benjamin Alire Saenz

2012

Hurricane Dancers
(Winner)
Margarita Engle

Under the Mesquite
(Honorable Mention)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Sylvia & Aki
(Commended)
Winifred Conkling

2011

Clemente!
(Winner)
Willie Perdomo

The Dreamer
(Winner)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin
(Commended)
Duncan Tonatiuh

Fiesta Babies
(Commended)
Carmen Tafolla

The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors
(Commended)
Francisco X. Stork

Napi Funda Un Pueblo/Napi Makes a Village
(Commended)
Antonio Ramirez

Eight Days
(Commended)
Edwidge Danticat

Grandma's Gift
(Commended)
Eric Velasquez

How Tia Lola Learned to Teach
(Commended)
Julia Alvarez

Me, Frida
(Commended)
Amy Novesky

2010

Return to Sender
(Winner)
Julia Alvarez

Gringolandia
(Honorable Mention)
Lyn Miller-Lachmann

I Know the River Loves Me/Yo Se Que El Rio Me Ama
(Honorable Mention)
Maya Christina Gonzalez

Book Fiesta!
(Commended)
Pat Mora

Marcelo in the Real World
(Commended)
Francisco X. Stork

My Abuelita
(Commended)
Tony Johnston

Tropical Secrets
(Commended)
Margarita Engle

A Pinata in a Pine Tree: A Latino Twelve Days of Christmas
(Commended)
Pat Mora

2009

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
(Winner)
Margarita Engle
  • / General Fiction
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Just in Case
(Winner)
Yuyi Morales

Dark Dude
(Honorable Mention)
Oscar Hijuelos

What Can You Do with a Rebozo?
(Commended)
Carmen Tafolla

He Forgot to Say Goodbye
(Commended)
Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Smell of Old Lady Perfume
(Commended)
Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

Divali Rose
(Commended)
Vashanti Rahaman

Walls of Cartagena
(Commended)
Julia Durango

Voices in First Person
(Commended)
Lori Marie Carlson

Dance, Nana, Dance
(Commended)
Joe Hayes

Kitchen Dance
(Commended)
Maurie J. Manning

The Secret Legacy
(Commended)
Rigoberta Menchu

2008

Red Glass
(Winner)
Laura Resau

Raining Sardines
(Honor Book)
Enrique Flores-Galbis

My Colors, My World/ MIS Colores, Mi Mundo
(Nominee)
Maya Christina Gonzalez

Touching Snow
(Commended)
M. Sindy Felin

A Small Nativity
(Commended)
Aquiles Nazoa

Old Dog
(Commended)
Teresa Cardenas

Sacred Leaf
(Commended)
Deborah Ellis

Alfredito Flies Home
(Commended)
Jorge Argueta

Nana's Big Surprise
(Commended)
Amada Irma Perez

2006

What the Moon Saw
(Honorable Mention)
Laura Resau

Surprising Cecilia
(Commended)
Susan Gonzales Abraham; Denise Gonzales Abraham

Crossing the Wire
(Commended)
Will Hobbs

Talking with Mother Earth
(Commended)
Jorge Argueta

2000

The Composition
(Winner)
Antonio Skarmeta

Award Categories

Ages 3-5

Ages 6 & Up

Ages 8-10

Ages K-3

Children/Young Adult

Fiction

Grades 2-5

Grades 4-8

Grades 8-12

Grades K-2

Grades K-4

Picture Book

Young Adult

Young Readers

Award Years

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2000

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