• Pura Teresa Belpré y Nogueras (February 2, 1899 – July 1, 1982) was an Afro-Puerto Rican educator who served as the first Puerto Rican librarian in New...
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  • The Pura Belpré Award is a recognition presented to a Latino or Latina author and illustrator whose work best portrays the Latino cultural experience...
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    in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. She is the recipient of the 2012 Pura Belpré Medal for narrative. Guadalupe Garcia McCall was born in Coauhila, a...
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    Merci Suárez Changes Gears and the Pura Belpré Award for Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (2014) and the Pura Belpré Award Honor Book in 2016 for Mango...
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  • star, but her home and love life gets in the way. Furia received the Pura Belpré Award medal for Young Adult Narrative in 2021. The novel begins with...
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    Pura Belpré Award honor book and PNBA winner in 2021. Her middle grade dystopian novel, The Last Cuentista, won the 2022 Newbery Medal and the Pura Belpré...
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  • 2013 Belpré Author Award winners". The Horn Book. January 28, 2013. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2023-12-15. "Pura Belpre Award...
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    children's books. As a children's book illustrator, he has received three Pura Belpré Award medals from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)...
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    smoke). 2011 Pura Belpré Medal – honor for illustration 2011 Américas Award Commendation Diego Rivera: His World and Ours 2012 Pura Belpré Medal winner...
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  • Pura is the given name of: Pura Belpré (1899–1982), first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City Pura Fé (born 1959), Native American singer, songwriter...
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