María Dolores Águila
Charlotte Huck Award Winner, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
María Dolores Águila is listed as Charlotte Huck Award Winner, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. María is scheduled to speak at 2026 NCTE Annual Convention on 20 November 2026.
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About
María Dolores Águila is a Chicana poet and author from San Diego. Deeply inspired by Chicane history and art, she seeks to write empowering and inclusive stories about everything she learns. Her middle grades novel-in-verse, A Sea of Lemon Trees , was named a Newbery Honor Book and a Pura Belpré Award Honor Book, and the winner of the Charlotte Huck Award® for Outstanding Fiction for Children, the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, and other accolades.
Upcoming
2026 NCTE Annual Convention 19 November 2026 – 22 November 2026
- 2026 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Speaker · 20 November 2026
- #MakersInTheMiddle: Imagining Possibility, Innovating Practice, Inspiring Change — The Middle Level Mosaic Speaker · 21 November 2026
- Children’s Book Awards Luncheon Speaker · 21 November 2026
- Imagine Teaching with the 2026 Charlotte Huck and Orbis Pictus Award-Winning Books Speaker · 21 November 2026
- Verse Novels That Inspire Us: Presenting the NCTE 2026 Notable Verse Novels Speaker · 21 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with María at events on B2DB.
- April Halprin Wayland Author, UCLA Extension Writer's Program 2 shared sessions
- Arree Chung Macmillan 2 shared sessions
- Ashanka Kumari Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing · East Texas A&M University 2 shared sessions
- Brittany Cicchese Orbis Pictus Award Winner, Illustrator 2 shared sessions
- Carole Boston Weatherford Macmillan 2 shared sessions
- Carri Wappat Burns Nashua School District 2 shared sessions
- Caryl Crowell Retired, Tucson Unified School District 2 shared sessions
- Darryn Diuguid McKendree University 2 shared sessions
- Erin Entrada Kelly Sourcebooks 2 shared sessions
- Glenda Funk School District #25, Pocatello/Chuibbuck, ID 2 shared sessions
- Hiawatha Smith University of Wisconsin-River Falls 2 shared sessions
- Jongsun Wee Pacific University 2 shared sessions
and 81 more people