2009 Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature – Children/Young Adult Winner
![Just in Case Yuyi Morales](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588616187-19382-image.jpg)
Just in Case
Yuyi Morales
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![The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom Margarita Engle](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588294920-12611-image.jpg)
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom
Margarita Engle
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2009 Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature – Children/Young Adult Nominees
![Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588194337-9403-image.jpg)
Dark Dude
Oscar Hijuelos
![The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belén Julia Alvarez](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1592359303-4903-Image.jpg)
The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belén
Julia Alvarez
![The Storyteller’s Candle Lucía M. González](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1592364845-5088-Image.jpg)
The Storyteller’s Candle
Lucía M. González
![Dance, Nana, Dance Joe Hayes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588549379-17579-image.jpg)
Dance, Nana, Dance
Joe Hayes
![Divali Rose Vashanti Rahaman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588625167-19755-image.jpg)
Divali Rose
Vashanti Rahaman
![He Forgot to Say Goodbye Benjamin Alire Saenz](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588191120-9270-image.jpg)
He Forgot to Say Goodbye
Benjamin Alire Saenz
![Kitchen Dance Maurie J. Manning](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588395653-15664-image.jpg)
Kitchen Dance
Maurie J. Manning
![The Secret Legacy Rigoberta Menchu](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588266038-11443-image.jpg)
The Secret Legacy
Rigoberta Menchu
![The Smell of Old Lady Perfume Claudia Guadalupe Martinez](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588549345-17578-image.jpg)
The Smell of Old Lady Perfume
Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
![Voices in First Person Lori Marie Carlson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588197216-9522-image.jpg)
Voices in First Person
Lori Marie Carlson
![Walls of Cartagena Julia Durango](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588194771-9421-image.jpg)
Walls of Cartagena
Julia Durango
![What Can You Do with a Rebozo? Carmen Tafolla](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1588632141-20040-image.jpg)