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Reviews of the 2025 Pura Belpré YA Award Winners

Winner Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta High School    Quill Tree/HarperCollins    368 pp. 1/24    9780063287860    $19.99 e-book ed.  9780063287884    $10.99 It’s senior year, and while Belén’s classmates are focused on college applications, she’s flunking school and struggling to cope with a shattered home life. Since her pa walked...

Reviews of the 2025 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winners

Winner The Dream Catcher by Marcelo Verdad; illus. by the author Primary    Little, Brown    40 pp. 5/24    9780316330664    $18.99 Spanish ed.  9780316566513    $8.99 Miguel and his abuelito wake early to work; the grandfather sells cold coconuts from a small, wheeled cart, and the boy sells dream catchers he makes, a...

Reviews of the 2025 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners

Winner Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti; illus. by Islenia Mil Intermediate    Knopf    256 pp. 9/24    9780593177006    $17.99 Library ed.  9780593177013    $20.99 e-book ed.  9780593177020    $10.99 Lola, ten, lives in Mexico City in a house built around the Tree. The Tree is full of life, and spirit-like beings called chaneques protect...

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...
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