Pura Belpre Award Winners
1996-2026

2026: The Pecan Sheller
by Lupe Ruiz-Flores

In 1930s San Antonio, after her father's death, thirteen-year-old Petra must quit school to work at a pecan shelling factory where dangerous conditions and low wages push her to take a vital stand for change.
The Pecan Sheller by Lupe Ruiz-Flores
1996 - 2022 Award Winners
2025: Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti
2024: MexiKid by Pedro Martín
2023: Where Wonder Grows by Xelena González
2023: Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega
2022: Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P. Dobbs
2022: Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge by Raúl the Third
2021: Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
2021: Vamos! Let's Go Eat! by Raúl the Third
2020: Dancing Hands : How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle
2020: Sal & Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Alberto Pablo Hernandez
2019: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
2019: Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
2018: La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya
2018: Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
2017: Juana & Lucas by Juana Medina
2017: Lowriders to the Center of the Earth. Book 2 by Cathy Camper
2016: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings by Margarita Engle
2016: Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle
 2015: I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosín
 2015: Viva Frida! by Yuyi Morales
 2014: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
 2014: Niño Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales
 2013: Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Ben Sáenz
 2013: Martín de Porres: The Rose in the Desert by Gary D. Schmidt
 2012: Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
 2012: Diego Rivera: His World and Ours by Duncan Tonatiuh
 2011: The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
 2011: Grandma's Gift by Eric Velasquez
 2010: Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
 2010: Book Fiesta! by Pat Mora
 2009: The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle
Just in case : a trickster tale and Spanish alphabet book by Yuyi Morales
 2008: The Poet Slave of Cuba by Margarita Engle
 2008: Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Marisa Montes
 2006: The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales
 2006: Doña Flor by Pat Mora
 2004: Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
 2004: Just a Minute by Yuyi Morales
 2002: Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
 2002: Chato and the Party Animals by Gary Soto
 2000: Under the Royal Palms by Alma Flor Ada
 2000: Magic Windows by Carmen Lomas Garza
 1998: Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez
 1998: Snapshots From the Wedding by Gary Soto
 1996: An Island Like You by Judith Ortiz Cofer
 1996: Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto