2009 Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature – Children/Young Adult Winner and Nominees

Just in Case

Yuyi Morales

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The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom

Margarita Engle

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Dark Dude

Oscar Hijuelos

The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belén

Julia Alvarez

The Storyteller’s Candle

Lucía M. González

Dance, Nana, Dance

Joe Hayes

Divali Rose

Vashanti Rahaman

He Forgot to Say Goodbye

Benjamin Alire Saenz

Kitchen Dance

Maurie J. Manning

The Secret Legacy

Rigoberta Menchu

The Smell of Old Lady Perfume

Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

Voices in First Person

Lori Marie Carlson

Walls of Cartagena

Julia Durango

What Can You Do with a Rebozo?

Carmen Tafolla