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YEAR
2016
TITLE
2016
The Donkey Lady Fights La Llorona and Other Stories / La señora
Asno se enfrenta
la Llorona
y otros
cuentos
Francisco’s
Kites /aLas
cometas
de Francisco
2016
The Remembering Day / El día de los muertos
2016
Sofi and the Magic, Musical Mural / Sofi y el mágico mural musical
AUTHOR
AWARD
Xavier Garza
Named to the 2016-17 Tejas Star Reading List
Alicia Z. Klepeis and Gary
Undercuffler
Pat Mora and Robert Casilla
Named to the 2016-17 Tejas Star Reading List
Named to the 2016-17 Tejas Star Reading List
Raquel Ortiz and Maria
Dominguez
Cecilia and Miguel Are Best Friends/Cecilia y Miguel son mejores
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
amigos
Dale,
dale, dale: Una fiesta de números / Hit It, Hit It, Hit It: A Fiesta of René Saldaña, Jr.
Numbers
Named to the 2016-17 Tejas Star Reading List
2015
Dalia's Wondrous Hair / El cabello maravilloso de Dalia
* Included in the 2015-2016 Tejas Star Reading List
* Named to Houston ISD's "Name That Book" List for Grades K-2
* 2015 Américas Award Commended Title
* Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Children's Picture Book-Bilingual
* Included in Dallas ISD's Luminarias 2015-2016 Master List of bilingual/Spanish books for
grades K-3rd
2015
Estas Manos: Manitas de mi familia / These Hands: My Family's Hands Samuel Caraballo
Included in the 2015-2016 Tejas Star Reading List
2015
Letters from Heaven / Cartas del cielo
Lydia Gil
* Included in the 2015-2016 Tejas Star Reading List
* Winner, 2015 Colorado Authors' League Awards - children's book category
* Finalist, 2015 Colorado Book Awards - children's book category
* Recipient, 2015 Skipping Stones Honor Award
* 2015 Américas Award Commended Title
* Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Chapter Book
2015
The Nature of Truth
Sergio Troncoso
* Finalist, 2014 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award - Multicultural (Adult Fiction)
cateogry
* Finalist, 2014 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award - Thriller and Suspense (Adult
Fiction) cateogry
* Bronze Award for Multicultural Fiction in ForeWord Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year
Awards
* Finalist for Thriller and Suspense in ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Awards
* Top Ten Best Fiction Books for 2014 by TheLatinoAuthor.com
2015
There's a Name for This Feeling: Stories / Hay un nombre para lo que
siento: Cuentos
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Writers' League of Texas' Middle Grade/Young Adult Discovery Prize Winner
2014
Rolando Hinojosa
Recipient, National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
2014
Sergio Troncoso
Ysleta Branch Library renamed to Sergio Troncoso Library
2015
2015
Laura Lacámara
Recipient, 2015 Skipping Stones Honor Award
Included in the 2015-2016 Tejas Star Reading List
2014
Canta, rana, canta / Sing, Froggie, Sing
Carolyn Dee Flores
Included in the 2014-2015 Tejas Star Reading List
2014
The Cucuy Stole My Cascarones / El coco me robó los cascarones
Spelile Rivas
Finalist, 2014 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards-Children's Picture Books
2014
Dale, dale, dale: Una fiesta de números / Hit It, Hit It, Hit It: A Fiesta of René Saldaña, Jr. and
Carolyn Dee Flores
Numbers
Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
2014
Desperado: A Mile-High Noir
Manuel Ramos
* Winner, 2014 Colorado Book Award-Mystery
* Finalist, 2014 International Latino Book Award for Best Novel-Mystery
* Honorable Mention, 2014 International Latino Book Award for Best Novel-Mystery
2014
Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms and Loops
Daniel Chacón
* Recipient, 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
* Finalist, 2013 Balcones Fiction Prize from Austin Community College
* Recipient, 2014 Tejas Foco Fiction Award
2014
The Little Devil and the Rose: Lotería Poems / El diablito y la rosa:
Poemas de la lotería
Lupita's First Dance / El primer baile de Lupita
Viola Canales
Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
Lupe Ruiz-Flores
* Finalist, 2013-2014 Writers' League of Texas Book Awards- Picture Book
* Included in the 2014-2015 Tejas Star Reading List
2014
The Missing Chancleta and Other Top-Secret Cases / La chancleta
perdida y otros cuentos secretos
Alidis Vicente
* Winner, 2014 International Latino Book Award for Best Youth Chapter Fiction BookSpanish or Bilingual
* Included in the 2014-2015 Tejas Star Reading List
* Finalist, 2014 International Latino Book Award for Best Youth Chapter Fiction BookSpanish or Bilingual
2014
Our Lost Border: Essay on Life amid the Narco-Violence
Edited by Sarah Cortez and
Sergio Troncoso
* Finalist, 2013 Foreword Reviews' Book of the Year Award-Adult Nonfiction Anthology
* Winner, Southwest Book Award
* Winner, 2014 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction BookSpanish or Bilingual
* Finalist, 2014 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction BookSpanish or Bilingual
2014
The Patchwork Garden / Pedacitos de huerto
Diane de Anda
* Honor Book, 2014 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
* Winner, 2014 Skipping Stones Honor Award
2014
The Recovering the U.S.Hispanic Literary Heritage Project
Nicolás Kanellos, Carolina
Villarroel
Winner, Diversity Award from the Society of American Archivists
2014
There's a Name for This Feeling: Stories / Hay un nombre para lo que
siento: Cuentos
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
2013
8 Ways to Say "I Love My Life!"
Sylvia Mendoza (Editor)
Finalist, International Latino Book Awards
2013
Alicia's Fruity Drinks / Las aguas frescas de Alicia
Lupe Ruiz-Flores
Included in the 2013-2014 Tejas Star Reading List
2013
A Day without Sugar / Un día sin azúcar
Diane de Anda
* Bank Street College of Education's 2013 Best Children's Books of the Year
* Included in the 2013-2014 Tejas Star Reading List
2013
Fat No More: A Teenager's Victory over Obesity
Alberto Hidalgo-Robert
Bank Street College of Education's 2013 Best Children's Books of the Year
2013
The Land Grant
Carlos Cisneros
* Finalist, 2012 Foreword Reviews' Book of the Year Award
* Winner, International Latino Book Awards for Best Mystery
2013
Level Up / Paso de nivel
Gwendolyn Zepeda
Included in the 2013-2014 Tejas Star Reading List
2013
A Mummy in Her Backpack / Una momia en su mochila
James Luna
Included in the 2013-2014 Tejas Star Reading List
2013
My Big Sister / Mi hermana mayor
Samuel Caraballo
Included in the 2013-2014 Tejas Star Reading List
2013
The Patchwork Garden / Pedacitos de huerto
Diane de Anda
Included in Reading Is Fundamental's 2013-2014 STEAM Multicultural Book Collection
2013
The Poet Upstairs / La poeta del piso de arriba
Judith Ortiz Cofer
* Finalist, 2012 Foreword Reviews' Book of the Year Award
* Winner, Skipping Stones Honor Award
* Honor Book, 2013 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
2013
Sofía and the Purple Dress / Sofía y el vestido morado
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Included in the 2013-2014 Tejas Star Reading List
2012
Adelita and the Veggie Cousins / Adelita y las primas verduritas
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Included in the 2012-2013 Tejas Star Reading List
2012
Animal Jamboree / La fiesta de los animales
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Included in the 2012-2013 Tejas Star Reading List
2012
The Battle of the Snow Cones/ La guerra de las raspas
Lupe Ruiz-Flores
Included in the 2012-2013 Tejas Star Reading List
2012
Clara and the Curandera / Clara y la curandera
Monica Brown
Included in the 2012-2013 Tejas Star Reading List
2012
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays
Sergio Troncoso
Winner, Foreword Reviews' 2011 Book of the Year Award, Bronze Award
2014
2012
I Kick the Ball / Pateo el balón
Gwendolyn Zepeda
2012
The Land of Lost Things / El país de las cosas perdidas
Dina Bursztyn
Included in Dallas ISD's Luminarias 2012-2013 Master List of bilingual/spanish books for
grades
* HonorK-3rd
Book, 2012 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
* Included in the Bank Street College of Education's 2012 Best Children's Books of the Year
* Included in Dallas ISD's Luminarias 2012-2013 Master List of bilingual/spanish books for
grades K-3rd
2012
The Lemon Tree Caper / La intriga del limonero
René Saldaña, Jr.
Included in the 2012-2013 Tejas Star Reading List
2012
The Monster in the Mattress and Other Stories / El monstruo en el
colchón y otros cuentos
Diane de Anda
Included in the 2012-2013 Tejas Star Reading List
2012
The Name Partner
Carlos Cisneros
Winner, Latino Books into Movies Award, First Place-Drama
2012
On Hallowed Ground
John Lantigua
Winner, International Latino Book Award Winner for Best Mystery Novel-English
2012
Outside the Bones
Lyn Di Iorio
* Winner, Foreword Reviews' 2011 Book of the Year Award, Silver Award
* Finalist, John Gardner Fiction Book Award
2012
The Poet Upstairs / La poeta del piso de arriba
Judith Ortiz Cofer
A Junior Library Guild Selection
2012
The Runaway Piggy / El cochinito fugitvo
James Luna
Winner, 2011-2012 Tejas Star Award
2011
The F Factor
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Nominee, Texas Library Association's 2012 Lone Star Reading List
2011
A Good Long Way
René Saldaña, Jr.
* Finalist, Texas Institute of Letters' Austin PL Friends Foundation Award for YA Book
* Included in the TLA's 2012 TAYSHAS High School Reading List
* Finalist, 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children and YA Literature
* Honor Book, 2011 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
2011
Grandma's Chocolate / El chocolate de Abuelita
Mara Price
* Included in the 2011-2012 Tejas Star Reading List
* Honor Book, 2011 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
* Winner, 2011 San Diego Book Awards for Best Picture Book
* Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Bilingual Children's Picture Book
2011
I Kick the Ball / Pateo el balón
Gwendolyn Zepeda
Included in the 2011-2012 Tejas Star Reading List
2011
Kid Cyclone Fights the Devil and Other Stories / Kid Ciclónse enfrenta
a El Diablo y otras historias
Xavier Garza
* Included in the 2011-2012 Tejas Star Reading List
* Winner, International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention-Best YA Fiction-English
2011
The Name Partner
Carlos Cisneros
* Included in the Texas Library Association's 2011 Lariat Reading List: Best of 2010 Adult
Fiction
* Winner, International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention-Fiction-English
2011
No Time for Monsters / No hay tiempo para monstruos
Spelile Rivas
Winner, 2010-2011 Tejas Star Award
2011
The Party For Papá Luis / La fiesta para Papá Luis
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
2011
Pepita and the Bully / Pepita y la peleonera
Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Winner, Texas Institute of Letters' Austin Public Library Friends Foundation Award for
Children’s Book
Included in the 2011-2012 Tejas Star Reading List
2011
The Runaway Piggy / El cochinito fugitivo
James Luna
Included in the 2011-2012 Tejas Star Reading List
2010
Abuelo vivía solo / Grandpa Used To Live Alone
Amy Costales
Included in the 2010-2011 Tejas Star Reading List
2010
Baseball On Mars / Béisbol en Marte
Tim Hoppey and Rafael
Rivera
Included in the 2010-2011 Tejas Star Reading List
2010
The Case Of The Pen Gone Missing: A Mickey Rangel Mystery/El
caso de la pluma perdida
René Saldaña, Jr.
* Included in the 2010-2011 Tejas Star Reading List
* Nominated for the William Allen White Children's Book Awards Master Lists 2011-2012
2010
Death at Solstice
Lucha Corpi
Finalist, Foreword Reviews' 2010 Book of the Year Award
2010
No Time For Monsters / No hay tiempo para monstruos
Spelile Rivas
Included in the 2010-2011 Tejas Star Reading List
2010
The Party For Papá Luis / La fiesta para Papá Luis
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Included in the 2010-2011 Tejas Star Reading List
2010
Nasario Garcia
Finalist, New Mexico Book Co-op's 2010 New Mexico Book Awards-Juvenile Book
2010
Rattling Chains and Other Stories for Children / Ruido de cadenas y
otros cuentos para niños
René Has Two Last Names / René tiene dos apellidos
René Colato Laínez
* Included in the 2010-2011 Tejas Star Reading List
* 2010 Skipping Stones Honor Award
* Commended Title, Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
2010
Sunflowers / Girasoles
Gwendolyn Zepeda
Winner, 2010 Texas Institute of Letters' Austin Public Library Friends Foundation AwardChildren’s Book
2010
Who's Buried in the Garden?
Ray Villareal
* Finalist, Foreword Reviews' 2010 Book of the Year Award
* Nominated for the William Allen White Children's Book Awards Master Lists 2011-2012
2009
Dante's Ballad
Eduardo González Viaña
Finalist, International Dublin Literary Award
2009
Chicken Foot Farm
Anne Estevis
Finalist, 2008 Texas Institute of Letters' Austin Public Library Friends Foundation AwardBest Young Adult Book
2009
Growing Up with Tamales / Los tamales de Ana
Gwendolyn Zepeda
* Highly Commended Title, 2009 Zolotow Award
* Finalist, 2009 Foreword Book of the Year Award
2009
The Throwaway Piece
JoAnn Yolanda Hernandez
Honorable Mention, 2009 The Eric Hoffer Book Award in Young Adult Fiction
2009
We Are Cousins / Somos primos
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Included in the 2009-1010 Tejas Star Reading List
2009
Who's Buried in the Garden?
Ray Villareal
* Winner, Los Angeles United School District's Westchester Fiction Award
* Pennsylvania School Librarians Association's The YA Top Forty or So Fiction Titles 2009
2008
Butterflies on Carmen Street / Mariposas en la calle Carmen
Monica Brown, April Ward,
Gabriela Baeza Ventura
* Finalist, Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award
* Included in the 2008-2009 Tejas Star Reading List
2008
Cantos de adolescencia / Songs of Youth (1932-1937)
Américo Paredes
Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Poetry Book-Spanish
2008
Growing Up with Tamales / Los tamales de Ana
Gwendolyn Zepeda
Included in the 2008-2009 Tejas Star Reading List
2008
I am René, the Boy / Soy René, el niño
René Colato Laínez and
Fabiola Graullera Ramirez
Included in the 2008-2009 Tejas Star Reading List
2008
The Lady from Buenos Aires
John Lantigua
* Honorable Mention, Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award-Mystery
* Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Mystery Novel-English
2008
Mi sueño de América / My American Dream
Yuliana Gallegos
Winner, International Latino Book Award Winner for Best YA Nonfiction-Bilingual
2008
Migrations and Other Stories
Lisa Hernandez
* Finalist, Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award
* Second Place Winner, International Latino Book Award for Mariposa Award for Best First
Book-English language
2008
Ricardo's Race
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Special Recognition, 2008 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry
Center at Passaic Community College
2008
We Are Cousins / Somos primos
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Second Place Winner, International Latino Book Award 2nd Place Recognition for Best
Children's Picture Book-Bilingual
2008
Windows into My World
Sarah Cortez
Winner, 2008 Skipping Stones Honor Award
2008
The Woodcutter's Gift / El regalo del leñador
Lupe Ruiz Flores
Included in the 2008-2009 Tejas Star Reading List
2007
"Colored Men" and "Hombres Aquí": Hernández v. Texas and the
Emergence of Mexican-American Lawyering
Michael Olivas (Editor)
Commended Title,Texas State Hispanic Genealogical Conference's Clotide P. Garcia
Tejano Book Award
2007
Do Not Pass Go
Beatriz Rivera
* Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Romance Novel-English
* Finalist, Paterson Prize for Best Fiction from the Poetry Center at Passaic Community
College
2007
El corrido de Dante
Eduardo González Viaña
Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Novel-Adventure or Drama-Spanish
2007
Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement
* Recipient, PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
* Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best History Book-English
2007
Juan and the Chupacabras / Juan y el Chupacabras
Enriqueta Vasquez, John
Nichols, Dionne Espinoza,
and Lorena Oropeza
Xavier Garza, April Ward
2007
Little Crow to the Rescue / El Cuervito al rescate
* Winner, 2007 Lacapa Spirit Prize
* Included in the 2007-2008 Tejas Star Reading List
2007
The Ruiz Street Kids / Los muchachos de la calle Ruiz
Victor Villaseñor, Felipe
Ugalde Alcántara, and
Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz
Diane Gonzales Bertrand and
Gabriela Baeza Ventura
2007
The Throwaway Piece
Jo Ann Yolanda Hernandez
Winner, Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at Passaic
Community College
2006
The Frog and His Friends Save Humanity / La rana y sus amigos
salvan a la humanidad
Victor Villasenor, Edna
Ochoa, and Jose Ramirez
Recipient, Skipping Stones Honor Award
2006
I am René, the Boy / Soy René, el niño
René Colato Laínez and
Fabiola Graullera Ramirez
* Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Children's Picture Book-Bilingual
* Special Recognition, Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
2006
Little Crow to the Rescue/ El Cuervito al rescate
Victor Villaseñor, Felipe
Ugalde Alcántara
Special Recognition, Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
2005
Border Crossing
Maria Colleen Cruz
Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
2005
César Chávez: The Struggle for Justice / César Chávez: La lucha por
la justicia
Richard Griswold del Castillo * Recipient, Carter G. Woodson Book Award
* Latino Literary Hall of Fame's Best Bilingual Children's Book for 2003
2005
Crimson Moon
Lucha Corpi
Winner, Latino Literary Award for Best Mystery Novel
2005
Down Garrapata Road
Anne Estevis
* Finalist, Texas Institute of Letters Fiction Award
* Winner, Foreword Book of the Year-Silver Award in Juvenile Fiction
2005
The Rowdy, Rowdy Ranch / Allá en El Rancho Grande
Ethriam Cash Brammer and
D. Nina Cruz
Special Recognition, Paterson Prize for Young People from the Poetry Center at Passaic
Community College
2005
Upside Down and Backwards / De cabeza y al revés
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Special Recognition, Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
2004
Down Garrapata Road
Anne Estevis
* Finalist, Texas Institute of Letters-Fiction
* Winner, Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year-Silver Award in Juvenile Fiction
2004
The Empanadas that Abuela Made/ Las empanadas que hacía abuela Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Recipient, Latino Literary Award for Best Children's Picture Book-Bilingual
2004
Lorenzo's Secret Mission
Lila Guzmán and Rick
Guzmán
2nd Place Winner, Arizona Literary Contest and Book Awards-Children's Literature
2004
Narco
Everardo Torrez
Winner, Latino Literary Award for Best Adventure Novel
2004
Remembering Grandma/ Recordando a Abuela
Teresa Armas
Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
2004
Shadows and Supposes
Gloria Vando
Winner, Latino Literary Hall of Fame's Best Poetry Collection
2003
Uncle Chente's Picnic/ El picnic de Tío Chente
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Winner, Latino Literary Hall of Fame's Best Children's Picture Book
2002
Erased Faces
Graciela Limón
Winner, The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
2002
Estrellita se despide de su isla/ Estrellita Says Good-bye to Her Island
Samuel Caraballo
Winner, "Reading with Energy" Hispanic Children's Book Award
Included in the 2007-2008 Tejas Star Reading List
* Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Young Adult Fiction-Bilingual
* Included in the 2007-2008 Tejas Star Reading List
* Winner, 2007 Skipping Stones Honor Book
2002
Home Killings
Marcos Villatoro
* Winner, Foreword's Book of the Year-Silver Award in Fiction
* Winner, Latino Literary Hall of Fame's Best Young Adult Fiction
2002
Trino's Time / El momento de Trino
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
* Winner, Latino Literary Hall of Fame's Best Young Adult Fiction
* Finalist, Writers' League of Texas Teddy Children's Book Award
* Included in the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2002
2001
Chicano Chicanery
Daniel Chacón
Finalist, Paterson Fiction Prize from the Poetry Center at Passaic Community College
2001
Family, Familia
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Winner, Latino Literary Hall of Fame's Best Children's Picture Book-Bilingual
2001
Home Killings
Marcos Villatoro
Finalist, Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award-Mystery
2001
Icy Watermelon/ Sandía fría
Mary Sue Galindo
* Parent's Choice Approved Winner
* Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
2001
Lorenzo's Secret Mission
Muffler Man/ El hombre mofle
Lila Guzmán and Rick
Guzmán
Tito
Campos, Evangelina
Finalist, Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award-Young Adult
2001
2001
My Own True Name
Vigil-Pinon,
Pat Mora Lamberto
Included in the New York Public Library's 2001 Books for the Teen Age
2001
Trino's Choice / El dilema de Trino
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
* Included in the 2001-2002 Texas Lone Star Reading List
* Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
* Finalist, Texas Institute of Letters' Austin Public Library Friends Foundation Award-Best
Young Adult Book
2001
Uncle Chente's Picnic/ El picnic de Tío Chente
* Winner, "Reading with Energy" Hispanic Children's Literature Award
* Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
2001
Women's Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie
2000
Black Widow's Wardrobe
Diane Gonzales Bertrand,
Pauline Rodriguez Howard,
and Julia Mercedes Castilla
Tey Diana Rebolledo and
María
Lucha Teresa
Corpi Márquez
2000
The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones
Marcos McPeek Villatoro
Finalist, Independent Publisher Book Award in General Fiction
2000
How to Undress a Cop: Selected Poems
Icy Watermelon/ Sandía fria
Sarah Cortez and Naomi
Shihab
Nye
Mary Sue
Galindo
Recipient, PEN Texas Literary Award
2000
2000
Lessons of the Game
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Included in the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
2000
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Anilú Bernardo
* Included in the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
* Included in the American Library Association's 2000 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
* Paperbacks for Young Adults List
* Included in the 1999-2000 TAYSHAS High School Reading List
2000
Salsipuedes
Ramon Betancourt
Winner, University of California at Irvine's 2000 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest
2000
Trino's Choice / El dilema de Trino
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
* Winner, Foreword Magazine's Best Book of the Year-Young Adult
* Winner, Austin Writers' League Teddy Award for Best Children's Book
* Winner, Latino Literary Hall of Fame's Best Young Adult Fiction-English
1999
Call Me Consuelo
Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
* Recipient, New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
* Included in the1999 Massachusetts Children's Book Award Master List
1999
Chave's Memories/Los recuerdos de Chave
María Isabel Delgado
1999
The Desert Is My Mother/El desierto es mi madre
1999
Fitting In
Pat Mora and illustrated by
Daniel Lechón
Anilú Bernardo
1999
Jumping Off to Freedom
Anilú Bernardo
Included in the 1999-2000 Houston Area Independent School Library Network
Recommended Reading List
Included in the 1999-2000 Houston Area Independent School Library Network
Recommended Reading List
Included in the 1999-2000 Houston Area Independent School Library Network
Recommended Reading List
Included in the 1999-2000 Houston Area Independent School Library Network
Recommended Reading List
Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
Finalist, Southwest Books of the Year-Best Reading in 2001
Winner, Latino Literary Hall of Fame's Best Mystery Novel
Commended Title, Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
1999
1999
Odyssey to the North
Pillars of Gold and Silver
Mario Bencastro
Beatriz de la Garza
Finalist, 1999 Independent Publisher Books Award in Multi-Cultural Fiction
Recipient, New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
1999
Spirits of the High Mesa
Floyd Martínez
1999
The Tall Mexican: The Life of Hank Aguirre, All-Star Pitcher,
Businessman, Humanitarian
Bob Copley
Included in the 1999-2000 Houston Area Independent School Library Network
Recommended Reading List
* Recipient, New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
* Included in the 1999-2000 Houston Area Independent School Library Network
Recommended Reading List
1999
Versos sencillos/Simple Verses
José Martí
Included in the 1999-2000 Houston Area Independent School Library Network
Recommended Reading List
1999
The Year of Our Revolution
Judith Ortiz Cofer
* Recipient, New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
* Recipient,1999 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
1998
Ask a Policeman
Rolando Hinojosa
Finalist, Mountains and Plains Booksellers Associations 1999 Regional Book Awards
1998
Chave's Memories/Los recuerdos de Chave
María Isabel Delgado
1998
The Desert Is My Mother/El desierto es mi madre
Pat Mora
Included in the 1998-1999 Houston Independent School District's Annual Recommended
Reading List
Included
in the 1998-1999 Houston Independent School District's Annual Recommended
1998
Giuseppe Rocco
Ronald L. Ruiz
Reading
List
Winner, Premio
Aztlán
1998
History and Legends of the Alamo and other Missions in and around
San Antonio
Adina de Zavala and edited
by Richard Flores
Recipient, San Antonio Conservation Society's Annual Book Award
1998
The Shadow
Américo Paredes
Finalist, 1998 Violet Crown Award in Fiction
1998
White Bread Competition
Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández
Finalist, Tomás Rivera Mexican American Literature Award
1997
Centaur of the North
Wendell Mayo
Finalist, 1997 Violet Crown Award
1997
Chave's Memories/Los recuerdos de Chave
María Isabel Delgado
Commended Title, 1996 Américas Award for Children and Young Adult Literature
1997
Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
F. Arturo Rosales
1997
Firefly Summer
Pura Belpré
Winner, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America Book
Award
Commended Title, 1996 Américas Award for Children and Young Adult Literature
1997
Fitting In
Anilú Bernardo
* Recipient, 1997 Skipping Stones Book Award
* Recipient, 1997 Paterson Prize for Books for Grades 7-12 from the Poetry Center at
Passaic Community College
1997
Spirits of the High Mesa
Floyd Martínez
* Honor Book, American Library Association's Pura Belpré Award
* Commended Title, 1997 Américas Award for Children and Young Adult Literature
1997
White Bread Competition
Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández
Commended Title, 1997 Américas Award for Children and Young Adult Literature
1996
The Candy Vendor's Boy and Other Stories
Beatriz de la Garza
Included in the New York Public Library's 1995 Books for the Teen Age
1996
Centaur of the North
Wendell Mayo
Recipient, Premio Aztlán
1996
The Handbook of Hispanic Cultures of the United States
Named Best Reference Work on Minority Issues in theUnited States by The Denali Press
1996
Jumping Off to Freedom
Nicolás Kanellos (Editor),
Claudio Esteva-Fabregat
(Editor)
Anilú Bernardo
1996
Longing
Maria Espinosa
1996
Pepita Talks Twice/Pepita habla dos veces
A Perfect Silence
by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman,
illustrated
by Alex Pardo de
Alba Ambert
Recipient, 1996 Skipping Stones Book Award
1996
1996
The Secret of Two Brothers
Irené Beltrán Hernández
* Nominated for the American Library Association's Quick Picks 1997 list of recommended
reading for reluctant young adult readers
* Commended Title, 1995 Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Nominated for the 1997 American Library Association Quick Picks for Reluctant Young
Adult Readers
Winner, American Book Award
Recipient, 1996 Carey McWilliams Award
1996
Sweet Fifteen
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Commended Title, 1995 Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
1995
Call No Man Master
Tina Juárez
1995
The Desert Is My Mother/El desierto es mi madre
1995
The Handbook of Hispanic Cultures of the United States
Pat Mora and illustrated by
Daniel Lechón
Nicolás
Kanellos (Editor),
* Winner, Austin Writers League's 1995 Violet Crown Book Award-Fiction
* 2nd Place Winner, Sons of the Republic of Texas' Presidio La Bahía Award
Recipient,1995 Skipping Stones Book Award-Nature and Ecology
Claudio Esteva-Fabregat
(Editor)
* The American Library Association's Reference and Adult Services Division's Outstanding
References Sources
* The New York Public Library's Outstanding Reference Works
1995
Hispanic, Female and Young: An Anthology
Edited by Phyllis Tashlik
* The American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services Association's Quick
Picks for Young Adults 1995
* The New York Public Library's 1995 Books for the Teen Age
1995
The Indian Chronicles
José Barreiro
Recipient, Cornell Award
1995
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World
Rafael Campo
* Finalist, American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award in
literature
* Finalist, Lambda Book Award in Gay Men's Poetry
* Finalist, PEN Center USA West 1995 Literary Award in literature
1995
Walking Stars
Victor Villaseñor
Commended Title, 1994 Américas Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
1994
The Handbook of Hispanic Cultures of the United States
In Search of Bernabé
Nicolás Kanellos(Editor),
Claudio
GracielaEstevaLimón
Choice Magazine's 1994 Outstanding Academic Books
1994
1994
The Indian Chronicles
José Barreiro
Finalist, Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
1994
Lydia Mendoza: A Family Autobiography
Chris Strachwitz and James
Nicolopulos
* Winner, Southwest Book Award
* Winner, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence-Ethnic Music
1994
Promesas: A Geography of the Impossible
Gloria Vando
Winner, 16th Annual Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award
1993
Don't Spit on My Corner
Miguel Durán
Included in the New York Public Library's 1993 Books for the Teen Age
1993
From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Winner, 1993 Latino Literature Prize in Poetry
1993
Heartbeat Drumbeat
Irené Beltrán Hernández
Finalist, Benjamin Franklin Awards in Juvenile-Young Adult Fiction
1993
The Rag Doll Plagues
Alejandro Morales
Finalist, PEN West's 1993 Literary Awards in Fiction
1993
Welcome to the Oasis and Other Stories
Virgil Suárez
Included in the New York Public Library's 1993 Books for the Teen Age
1992
Eulogy for a Brown Angel: A Mystery Novel
Lucha Corpi
Winner, 1992 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
1992
From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Winner, 1992 Paterson Poetry Prize from the Poetry Center of the Passaic County
Community College
* Winner, Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award
* Finalist, Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction