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(2018 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Honor)
Author: Jason Reynolds
Call number: YA REY
ISBN: 1-48143826-3
Summary: "As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know." - From Follet
(2018 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Honor)
Author: Angie Thomas
Call number: YA THO
ISBN: 9780062498533
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life"-- Follett
(2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Winner)
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Call number: F WOO
ISBN: 9780147515827
Summary: "Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement." - From Follet
(2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Honor)
Author: Kwame Alexander
Call number: F ALE
ISBN: 9780544935204
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health." - From Follet
(2013 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Honor)
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Call number: JF WOO
ISBN: 9780399246524
Summary: "Each kindness makes the world a little better This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. With its powerful anti-bullying message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down. Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, Maya. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her friends, they reject her. Eventually, Maya stops coming to school. When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she'd shown a little kindness toward Maya." - From Follet
(2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Winner)
Author: Kadir Nelson
Call number: NF 973.44 NEL
ISBN: 9780061730740
Summary: "Examines the history of the United States, focusing on events that influenced African-Americans and how they advanced liberty and justice in America." - From Follet
(2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Honor)
Author: Eloise Greenfield
Call number: JF. Gre
ISBN: 9780061259210
Summary: "Describes the journey of African Americans from their homes in the South to industrial cities in the North around the time of World War I, and includes paintings that depict the migration." - From Follet
(2011 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Winner)
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
Call number: F WIL
ISBN: 9780060760908
Summary: "In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp." - From Follet
(2009 Coretta Scott King Book Award for Author - Honor)
Author: Hope Anita Smith
Call number: F SMI
ISBN: 0805072020
Summary: A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear.
The Land
(2002 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Winner)
Author: Mildred D. Taylor
Call number: F Tay
ISBN: 9780439434171
Summary: Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War.
(1995 Coretta Scott King Author Award - Honor)
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Call number: JF. Woo
ISBN: 9780385320313
Summary: "Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private." - From Follet
