2010 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award

Set in 1968 Chicago, this powerful debut novel follows 13-year-old Sam Childs, the son of a known civil rights activist who questions the possibility of change after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. …More

2010 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribute to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Smith interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the beauty, and the soul of being a black American today. …More

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2009 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
2009 Sibert Informational Book Medal Winner

In this "New York Times" bestseller, noted artist Kadir Nelson tells the story of baseball's unsung heroes. [A] sumptuous volume that no baseball fan should be without. …More

2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner

Two Coretta Scott King Honorees celebrate the many shades of black in this lyrical and illuminating collection of poems, including "Golden Goodness," "Cranberry Red," and "Biscuit Brown." Full color. …More

2009 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award
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2009 Coretta Scott King New Talent Award Winner

An African-American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he struggles to make sense of his grandfather's death and his brother's drug addiction. Illustrations. …More

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2008 Coretta Scott King Award Winner
2008 Michigan Notable Book
2008 Scott O'Dell Award Winner

Its 1860, and 11-year-old Elijah is a first-generation freeborn child. His Canadian town of Buxton serves as a haven for runaway slaves. When the towns corrupt preacher steals money from a citizen whos been saving to buy his familys freedom, Elijah sets off for America in pursuit, in this powerful new novel by a Newbery Medalist. …More

Tayshas Reading List 2007-2008
2007 Virginia Readers' Choice
Winner - 2007 Coretta Scott King Award
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Pale strangers enter fifteen-year-old Amari's village to capture the strongest, healthiest villagers and to murder the rest. Sweeping in scope, detailed and penetrating in its look at the complicated interrelationships of those who live together on a plantation, Copper Sun is an unflinching and unforgettable look at the African slave trade and slavery in America. …More

2007 Virginia Readers' Choice
Winner - 2006 Coretta Scott King Award
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Through flashbacks, foreshadowing, and shifting first-person points of view, readers will travel with Emma and others through time and space. They come to discover that every decision has its consequences, and final judgment is passed down not by man, but by his maker. …More

Winner - 2005 Coretta Scott King Award
The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. …More

Runner Up - 2006 VSBA 7-12
Winner - 2004 Michael L. Printz Award
Winner - 2004 Coretta Scott King Award
With powerful language and keen insight, Johnson tells the story of a teen father's struggle to figure out what "the right thing" is and then to do it. …More

Winner - 2003 Coretta Scott King Award
Eighteen students in a high school English class open up and take the risky challenge of self-revelation in weekly poetry sessions. Through their poetry and narratives, they share their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their lives, and what lies beneath the skin and beyond the masquerade. Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for 2003. …More

CCBC Choices - 2002
Winner - 2002 Coretta Scott King Award
2002 Scott O'Dell Award Winner
The legacy of the Logan family begins with Paul-Edward Logan, grandfather of Cassie, the beloved protagonist of Newbery Medal-winning "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry." Starting with his birth during the Civil War, this is the story of Logan's exciting, sometimes heartbreaking adventures and how his dream of owning land becomes a reality. …More

2006 Margaret Edwards Award Winner
CCBC Choices - 2001
Winner - 2001 Coretta Scott King Award

Nothing is like it used to be. If it were, Mama would still be alive. Papa wouldn't have died. And Charlie would still be the same old loving big brother to thirteen-year-old Lafayette, not a hostile stranger just back from doing time at a correctional facility. Oldest brother Ty'ree would have gone to college, instead of having to work full time to support the three of them. And Lafayette wouldn't be so full of questions, like why Mama had to die, why Charlie hates him so much now, and how they're all supposed to survive these times together when so much seems to be set against them.

Jacqueline Woodson brings us the story of three remarkable young men -- brothers who have only each other to rely on and must decide whether they'll work with that or let it tear them apart. …More

2000 Newbery Award Winner
1999 Mitten Award Winner
2002 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Teen

It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:
1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things.
2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!
Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him--not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
Bud, Not Buddy is full of laugh-out-loud humor and wonderful characters, hitting the high notes of jazz and sounding the deeper tones of the Great Depression. Once again Christopher Paul Curtis, author of the award-winning novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, takes readers on a heartwarming and unforgettable journey. …More

Winner - 1999 Coretta Scott King Award
Marley has lived in heaven with her parents and her brother for 12 years since the accident. She can't imagine her life any other way, but she may have to. Does Marley have the perfect life, or is her life the perfect lie? …More