News

Awards and other news. Please visit the Journal link for all the latest from Francisco Stork.

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ILLEGAL

2021 International Latino Book Award (Gold Medal)

2020 In The Margins Book Award

2020 Young Adult Book Award – Texas Institute of Letters

DISAPPEARED

2018 Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book (We Need Diverse Books)

2018  Young Adult Book Award – Texas Institute of Letters

THE MEMORY OF LIGHT

2017 Tomás Rivera Book Award  – Given to authors and illustrators who
create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience.

2017 Millikin Medal for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

THE LAST SUMMER OF THE DEATH WARRIORS

Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award presented by the
Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) of the National Council of Teachers of English.
The award is given to a young adult title demonstrating a positive approach
to life, widespread teen appeal and literary merit.

MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD

2010 Once Upon a World Children’s Book Award for Young Adults
Awarded by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance Library and Archives)

Schneider Family Book Award (January 2010)
Awarded by the American Library Association for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences

New York Times Notable Children’s Book of 2009

Washington Post Best Kids’ Books of the Year

Smithsonian Notable Book of 2009

A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 2010

YALSA Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults

2010 NPR.org Best Young Adult Fiction for 2009

2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice

Horn Book Fanfare Book

Kirkus Best Book of 2009

Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009

School Library Journal Best Book of 2009

CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2010

2010 IRA Notable Books for a Global Society

Other Good News About Marcelo: So far (as of February 14, 2010) Marcelo will be published in sixteen languages: Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Greek, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese, Slovak, Korean, Hungarian, Chinese Simplified, Turkish and Hebrew.

My favorite comment on the book: “Sir, on behalf of myself and my twin sons, who are like Marcelo, I want to thank-you for writing this book.”