Tomás Rivera Book Award, 1996-2024
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1996 -- honoring literature that authentically depicts the Mexican American experience
Sponsored by Texas State University College of Education
![Tomás Rivera Book Award, 1996-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/list_image/4716.jpg)
- 1,097 Resources including
- 105 Videos
- 61 Book Readings
- 113 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-47 of 47 book results
![Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1419710540.jpg)
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
(Winner, 2015)
47 Resources16 Awards
![Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1419716476.jpg)
![Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0544357698.jpg)
Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood
by F. Isabel Campoy, Theresa Howell, and Rafael López
(Winner, 2017)
42 Resources10 Awards
![My Papi Has a Motorcycle](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/052555341X.jpg)
![Los Gatos Black on Halloween](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0805074295.jpg)
![Out of Darkness](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1467742023.jpg)
![They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1947627066.jpg)
![Gabi, a Girl in Pieces](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1935955942.jpg)
![First Rule of Punk, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0425290409.jpg)
![Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0811837580.jpg)
Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
by Yuyi Morales
(Winner, 2004)
32 Resources11 Awards
![Under the Mesquite](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1600604293.jpg)
![I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1524700487.jpg)
![Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1419705830.jpg)
![My Two Border Towns](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0593111044.jpg)
![Becoming Naomi León](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0439269695.jpg)
![Diego Rivera: His World and Ours](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0810997312.jpg)
![Tomás and the Library Lady](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0679804013.jpg)
![Chato's Kitchen](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0399226583.jpg)
![Memory of Light, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0545474329.jpg)
![Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns: A Mesoamerican Creation Myth](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1419746774.jpg)
Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns: A Mesoamerican Creation Myth
(Winner, 2021)
21 Resources4 Awards
![Indivisible](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0759556059.jpg)
![Breaking Through](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0618342486.jpg)
![Sylvia & Aki](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1582463379.jpg)
![All Around Us](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/57915_hi.jpg)
![Spanish Is the Language of My Family](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/082345004X.jpg)
Spanish Is the Language of My Family
by Michael Genhart and John Parra
(Winner, 2024)
17 Resources8 Awards
![Seed in the Sun, A](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0593406605.jpg)
![My Very Own Room / Mi propio cuartito](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images/2/0892391642.gif)
My Very Own Room / Mi propio cuartito
by Amada Irma Pérez and Maya Gonzalez
(Winner, 2001)
14 Resources4 Awards
![What Can You Do with a Paleta?](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1582462216.jpg)
What Can You Do with a Paleta?
by Carmen Tafolla and Magaly Morales
(Winner, 2010)
14 Resources5 Awards
![José! Born to Dance: The Story of José Limon](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0689865767.jpg)
José! Born to Dance: The Story of José Limon
by Susanna Reich and Raúl Colón
(Winner, 2006)
14 Resources3 Awards
![Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0810984113.jpg)
![Library for Juana, A: The World of Sor Juana Ines](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0375906436.jpg)
A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Ines
by Pat Mora and Beatriz Vidal
(Winner, 2003)
13 Resources3 Awards
![El español es la lengua de mi familia](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0823454460.jpg)
El español es la lengua de mi familia
by Michael Genhart and John Parra
(Winner, 2024)
12 Resources2 Awards
![In My Family / En mi familia](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0892391383.jpg)
![Downtown Boy](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0439644895.jpg)
![Warrior Girl](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0593354710.jpg)
![Spirit of Chicano Park, The / El espíritu del Parque Chicano](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0981695027.jpg)
Spirit of Chicano Park, The / El espíritu del Parque Chicano
by Beatrice Zamora and Meza Maira
(Winner, 2021)
9 Resources2 Awards
![He Forgot to Say Goodbye](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1416949631.jpg)
![Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans, The: A Feast of Short Fiction](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0916727491.jpg)
![My Land Sings: Stories from the Rio Grande](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0688150780.jpg)
My Land Sings: Stories from the Rio Grande
by Rudolfo A. Anaya and Amy Córdova Boone
(Winner, 2000)
7 Resources1 Awards
![Farolitos of Christmas, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0786800607.jpg)
The Farolitos of Christmas
by Rudolfo A. Anaya and Edward Gonzales
(Winner, 1996)
7 Resources2 Awards
![Dreaming with Mariposas](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1953447996.jpg)
![Three Pigs, The: Nacho, Tito, and Miguel / Los tres cerdos](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0934925054.jpg)
The Three Pigs: Nacho, Tito, and Miguel / Los tres cerdos
by Bobbi Salinas, Marcos Guerrero, and Amapola Franzen
(Winner, 1999)
4 Resources1 Awards