Books

Coretta Scott King Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 232 books.


  1. Heart & Soul

    by Kadir Nelson

    Year: 2012
    Category: Author
  2. The Great Migration

    Journey to the North

    by Eloise Greenfield

    Year: 2012
    Category: Author, Honor
  3. Never Forgotten

    by Patricia C. McKissack

    Year: 2012
    Category: Author, Honor
  4. Underground

    by Shane W. Evans

    Year: 2012
    Category: Illustrator
  5. One Crazy Summer

    by Rita Williams-Garcia

    Year: 2011
    Category: Author
    Rank: 1
  6. Yummy

    The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

    by Greg Neri, Randy DuBurke

    Year: 2011
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  7. Ninth Ward

    by Jewell Parker Rhodes

    Year: 2011
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  8. Lockdown

    by Walter Dean Myers

    Year: 2011
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  9. Dave the Potter

    Artist, Poet, Slave

    by Laban Carrick Hill, Bryan Collier

    Year: 2011
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Winner
  10. Zora and Me

    by Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon

    Year: 2011
    Category: John Steptoe New Talent Award
  11. (Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace) By Johnson, Jen Cullerton (Author) Hardcover on 01-Apr-2010

    by Jen Cullerton Johnson

    Year: 2011
    Category: John Steptoe New Talent Award
  12. Mare's War

    by Tanita S. Davis

    Year: 2010
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  13. Bad News for Outlaws

    The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal

    by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Tyrone Geter, R. Gregory Christie

    Year: 2010
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  14. The Negro Speaks of Rivers

    by Langston Hughes, E. B. Lewis

    Year: 2010
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  15. My People

    by Langston Hughes, Charles R. Smith Jr.

    Year: 2010
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Winner
  16. We Are the Ship

    The Story of Negro League Baseball

    by Kadir Nelson

    Year: 2009
    Category: Author
    Rank: 1
  17. Becoming Billie Holiday

    by Carole Boston Weatherford

    Year: 2009
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  18. Keeping the Night Watch

    by Hope Anita Smith

    Year: 2009
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  19. Before John Was a Jazz Giant

    A Song of John Coltrane

    by Carole Boston Weatherford, Sean Qualls

    Year: 2009
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  20. The Moon Over Star

    by Dianna Hutts Aston, Jerry Pinkney

    Year: 2009
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  21. The Blacker the Berry

    by Joyce Carol Thomas, Floyd Cooper

    Year: 2009
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Winner
  22. The Battle of Jericho: Book 2

    November Blues

    by Sharon M. Draper

    Year: 2008
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  23. Elijah of Buxton

    by Christopher Paul Curtis

    Year: 2008
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  24. Twelve Rounds to Glory

    The Story of Muhammad Ali

    by Charles R. Smith, Bryan Collier

    Year: 2008
    Category: Illustrated
    Rank: Honor
  25. Jazz On A Saturday Night

    by Diane Dillon, Leo Dillon

    Year: 2008
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  26. The Secret Olivia Told Me

    by N. Joy, Nancy Devard

    Year: 2008
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  27. Let it Shine

    Three Favorite Spirituals

    by Ashley Bryan

    Year: 2008
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Winner
  28. The Road to Paris

    by Nikki Grimes

    Year: 2007
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  29. Copper Sun

    by Sharon M. Draper, Sharon Draper

    Year: 2007
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  30. Langston Hughes

    by Langston Hughes, Benny Andrews

    Year: 2007
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  31. Jazz

    by Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers

    Year: 2007
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  32. Moses

    When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

    by Carole Boston Weatherford, Kadir Nelson

    Year: 2007
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Winner
  33. A Wreath for Emmett Till

    by Marilyn Nelson

    Year: 2006
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  34. Dark Sons

    by Nikki Grimes

    Year: 2006
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  35. Maritcha

    A Nineteenth-Century American Girl

    by Tonya Bolden

    Year: 2006
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  36. Day of Tears

    A Novel in Dialogue

    by Julius Lester

    Year: 2006
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  37. Brothers in Hope

    The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

    by Mary Williams, R. Gregory Christie

    Year: 2006
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  38. Rosa

    by Nikki Giovanni, Bryan Collier

    Year: 2006
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Winner
  39. Fortune's Bones

    The Manumission Requiem

    by Marilyn Nelson

    Year: 2005
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  40. Who Am I Without Him?

    Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives

    by Sharon G. Flake

    Year: 2005
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  41. The Legend of Buddy Bush

    by Shelia P. Moses

    Year: 2005
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  42. Remember: The Journey to School Integration

    by Toni Morrison

    Year: 2005
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  43. God Bless the Child

    by Billie Holiday, Jerry Pinkney

    Year: 2005
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  44. Ellington Was Not a Street

    by Ntozake Shange, Kadir Nelson

    Year: 2005
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Winner
  45. The Battle of Jericho: Book 1

    The Battle of Jericho

    by Sharon M. Draper

    Year: 2004
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  46. Locomotion

    by Jacqueline Woodson

    Year: 2004
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  47. Heaven Trilogy: Book 2

    The First Part Last

    by Angela Johnson

    Year: 2004
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  48. Thunder Rose

    by Jerdine Nolen, Kadir Nelson

    Year: 2004
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor
  49. Almost to Freedom

    by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Colin Bootman

    Year: 2004
    Category: Illustrator
    Rank: Honor

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