Below are the 2014 finalists for the 16th Annual International Latino Book Awards in the children’s, youth, and young adult categories. If you click on the images, you will be taken to Goodreads, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon for more information. The Awards are produced by Latino Literacy Now, an organization co-founded by Edward James Olmos and Kirk Whisler, and co-presented by Las Comadres para las Americas and Reforma, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos. The Awards themselves will be June 28 in Las Vegas as part of the ALA Conference. For the complete list, which includes adult fiction and nonfiction, check out the Latina Book Club site. Congratulations and good luck to all of the finalists!

Best Latino Focused Children’s Picture Book: English

  

Best Latino Focused Children’s Book: Spanish or Bilingual

    

Best Children’s Fiction Book: English

      

Best Children’s Fiction Picture Book: Bilingual

      

Best Children’s Fiction Picture Book: Spanish

        

Best Children’s Nonfiction Picture Book

    

Best Educational Children’s Picture Book: English

    

Best Educational Children’s Picture Book: Spanish or Bilingual

        

Most inspirational Children’s Picture Book: English

Most inspirational Children’s Picture Book: Spanish or Bilingual

        

Best Youth Latino Focused Chapter Book

    

Best Youth Chapter Fiction Book: English

    

Best Youth Chapter Fiction Book: Spanish or Bilingual

    

Best Youth Chapter Nonfiction Book

Most inspirational Chapter Book

  

Best Young Adult Latino Focused Book: English

Insurgency: 1968 Aztec Walkout by Victor Gonzalez

    

Best Young Adult Latino Focused Book: Spanish or Bilingual

Los Pájaros No Tienen Fronteras by Edna Iturralde

Best Young Adult Fiction Book: English

        

Best Young Adult Fiction Book: Spanish or Bilingual

La Guarida de las Lechuzas by Antonio Ramos Revillas

Best Young Adult Nonfiction Book

  

Best Educational Young Adult Book

    

Most Inspirational Young Adult Book

    

Best Book Written by a Youth: English

  

Best Book Written by a Youth: Spanish or Bilingual

  

Best Children’s Picture Book Translation: Spanish to English

      

Best Children’s Picture Book Translation: English to Spanish

El Día Maravilloso de Hacer Tamales que Tuvo Sofia by Albert Monreal Quihuis; translator: Veronica Lamanes

Best Chapter/Young Adult Book Translation: English to Spanish

Best First Book: Children’s and Youth