Suggested Book Awards
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Américas Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature"The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction ... published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States."
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Pura Belpré AwardThe award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
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Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book AwardThe award recognizes and honor authors and illustrators that create quality children’s literature depicting the Mexican American experience.
UTSA's CLCD
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Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is the premier academic research and teaching tool for courses needing quality information for locating Children’s and Young Adult books and other media. The content includes over 2.6 million fiction/non-fiction records with 650,000+ national and international awards (including Newbery, Jane Addams Book Award, Caldecott) plus 540,000+ quality, professional reviews. It includes over 330,000 author/title links plus lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers 45 search-limiters to easily find appropriate materials such as: determining interest & reading levels; select trade books based on standards; create thematic, annotated biographies; interpret reviews; develop STEM book collections and more. Students can set up their own My CLCD account to save their search assignments. Student access is FREE for one year after graduation.
Tips:
- Click on the "Special Search Qualifiers" dropdown menu and select Books that have won Awards & Honors Only
- Click on Spanish for language (Optional)
- Search by author, illustrator, book award name, or keyword
SAPL's NoveList
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SAPL DatabasesA wide variety of searchable resources available to SAPL card holders.
Select NoveList from the alphabetical list.
Tips:
- Click on Advanced Search
- Check the Award Winner box
- You can limit the Author’s Cultural Identity to Hispanic-American
- Do not click on the SAPL fiction collection box