Américas Award, 1993-2024
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1993 -- portraying Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States
Sponsored by Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs
![Américas Award, 1993-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/list_image/3388.jpg)
- 6,723 Resources including
- 536 Videos
- 308 Book Readings
- 614 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 503 book results
![Poet X, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0062662805.jpg)
![Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0544102290.jpg)
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
(Commended, 2016)
53 Resources14 Awards
![Clap When You Land](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0062882767.jpg)
![Esperanza Rising](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0613538072.jpg)
![Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1419710540.jpg)
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
(Winner, 2015)
47 Resources16 Awards
![Efrén Divided](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0062881701.jpg)
![Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1419716476.jpg)
![Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1536207047.jpg)
Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away
by Meg Medina and Sonia Sánchez
(Commended, 2021)
44 Resources10 Awards
![Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/75918_hi.jpg)
![Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0544109414.jpg)
![Last Cuentista, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1646140893.jpg)
![My Papi Has a Motorcycle](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/052555341X.jpg)
![Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0152014373.jpg)
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
by Kathleen Krull and Yuyi Morales
(Honor, 2003)
41 Resources9 Awards
![Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1481435221.jpg)
![Lightning Dreamer, The: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0547807430.jpg)
![Burn Baby Burn](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0606409041.jpg)
![Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0062748688.jpg)
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
by Anika Aldamuy Denise and Paola Escobar
(Commended, 2020)
40 Resources11 Awards
![Land of the Cranes](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1338343807.jpg)
![Poet Slave of Cuba, The: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0805077065.jpg)
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
by Margarita Engle and Sean Qualls
(Winner, 2006)
39 Resources5 Awards
![Dreamer, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0439269709.jpg)
![Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0316213888.jpg)
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
(Commended, 2017)
39 Resources13 Awards
![Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/78225_hi.jpg)
Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua
by Gloria Amescua and Duncan Tonatiuh
(Winner, 2022)
39 Resources12 Awards
![Bravo!: Poems about Amazing Hispanics](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0805098763.jpg)
Bravo!: Poems about Amazing Hispanics
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
(Commended, 2018)
38 Resources8 Awards
![Storyteller's Candle / La velita de los cuentos, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0892392223.jpg)
The Storyteller's Candle / La velita de los cuentos
by Lucia M. Gonzalez and Lulu Delacre
(Honor, 2009)
37 Resources11 Awards
![Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0763658596.jpg)
![All the Way to Havana](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1627796428.jpg)
![Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1419736825.jpg)
Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War
(Commended, 2020)
36 Resources11 Awards
![Surrender Tree, The: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0805086749.jpg)
![Out of Darkness](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1467742023.jpg)
![Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1984892630.jpg)
Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built
by Angela Burke Kunkel and Paola Escobar
(Winner, 2021)
35 Resources7 Awards
![Parrots Over Puerto Rico](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1620140047.jpg)
![Gabi, a Girl in Pieces](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1935955942.jpg)
![Princess and the Warrior, The: A Tale of Two Volcanoes](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1419721305.jpg)
![Juana & Lucas](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0763672084.jpg)
![First Rule of Punk, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0425290409.jpg)
![¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1328557049.jpg)
![Firefly Letters, The: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0805090827.jpg)
![Under the Mesquite](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1600604293.jpg)
![Sharuko: El arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/69704_hi.jpg)
Sharuko: El arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello
by Monica Brown and Elisa Chavarri
(Commended, 2021)
32 Resources10 Awards
![Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0811837580.jpg)
Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
by Yuyi Morales
(Winner, 2003)
31 Resources10 Awards
![Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1442408928.jpg)
![Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1419705830.jpg)
![Distance Between Us, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1451661789.jpg)
![American Street](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0062473042.jpg)
![Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0735842698.jpg)
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
by Monica Brown and John Parra
(Commended, 2018)
31 Resources7 Awards