Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Books

A visual history of excellence in multicultural literature. — View List by Year —

Cover for Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (World Writers)Cover for In America’s ShadowCover for This Land Is Our Land: A History of American ImmigrationCover for Celebrating Chinese New YearCover for Children of the Relocation Camps (Picture the American Past)Cover for Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961Cover for Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People (Women of Spirit)Cover for Red-Tail Angels: The Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen Of World War IiCover for Let Them Play (True Story)Cover for Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover))Cover for Jim Thorpe’s Bright PathCover for The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of ReconstructionCover for James Van Derzee: The Picture-Takin’ ManCover for We Are Not BrokenCover for Living in Two WorldsCover for A cry from the earth: Music of the North American IndiansCover for Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His PeopleCover for Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon GroveCover for Racial Prejudice (Issues in American History)Cover for The Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Rainbow Biography)Cover for Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for The Riches of Oseola McCartyCover for Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” ConnorCover for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar ChavezCover for The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights ActivistCover for Saga of the Sioux: An Adaptation from Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeCover for Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (African-American Artists and Artisans)Cover for Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War (Young Reader’s Hist- Civil War)Cover for The Great Migration: An American StoryCover for Story Painter: The Life of Jacob LawrenceCover for Justin and the Best Biscuits in the WorldCover for Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball PioneerCover for Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race MassacreCover for The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett JustCover for The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Golden Kite Honors)Cover for Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In AmericaCover for Alec’s Primer (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series)Cover for Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance (African-American Biographies (Enslow))Cover for The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal RightsCover for Matthew Henson: Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback))Cover for Gordon Parks: No ExcusesCover for Children of the Tlingit (World’s Children)Cover for Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters)Cover for Paul Robeson: Hero Before His Time (Biographies)Cover for Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final HoursCover for Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers (Latino Biography Library)Cover for Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American HistoryCover for Black Heroes of the Wild WestCover for Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans Series)Cover for You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara BrooksCover for So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward FreedomCover for Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation CampCover for Morning Star, Black Sun: The Northern Cheyenne Indians and America’s Energy CrisisCover for Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In AmericaCover for Black music in America: A history through its peopleCover for No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights MovementCover for Schomburg: The Man Who Built a LibraryCover for Black and White Airmen: Their True HistoryCover for Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln And The Dawn Of LibertyCover for An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo FrankCover for Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. WashingtonCover for The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-SaCover for Pueblo StorytellerCover for Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on WashingtonCover for With One Sky Above Us: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce IndiansCover for Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting DownCover for A Nation’s Hope: the Story of Boxing Legend Joe LouisCover for Vilma Martinez (Raintree Hispanic Stories)Cover for Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh PiratesCover for Harlem’s Little BlackbirdCover for Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a CityCover for Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and ActivistCover for What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for Breaking the ChainsCover for Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for FreedomCover for Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom FightersCover for Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale HurstonCover for William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground RailroadCover for Marian AndersonCover for Mississippi ChallengeCover for March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)Cover for Shining Star: The Anna May Wong StoryCover for Konnichiwa! I Am a Japanese-American GirlCover for Coming Home: A True Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run HitterCover for Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant CommunityCover for Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United StatesCover for The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil RightsCover for In Two Worlds: A Yu’pik Eskimo FamilyCover for A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American HeroCover for Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles (Prebound))Cover for I Color Myself DifferentCover for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward JusticeCover for Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a DifferenceCover for Magic Windows/Ventanas mágicas (English and Spanish Edition)Cover for Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American ImmigrationCover for The Rise and Fall of Jim CrowCover for A Long Hard Journey: The Story Of The Pullman PorterCover for The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus BoycottCover for When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Prime)Cover for Issues in RacismCover for Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson’s Flight from SlaveryCover for Slavery Time When I Was ChillunCover for Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, SlaveCover for Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their InventionsCover for Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, AlabamaCover for Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in AmericaCover for War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute IndiansCover for Fred Korematsu Speaks UpCover for Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret SchoolCover for Celebrating KwanzaaCover for Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black ManCover for Prince Estabrook, Slave and SoldierCover for Atlas of Asian-American History (Facts on File Library of American History)Cover for Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord! the Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers (Women of America)Cover for The “Mississippi Burning” Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: A Headline Court Case (Headline Court Cases)Cover for This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School EqualityCover for Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies)Cover for Until Someone Listens: A Story about Borders, Family, and One Girl’s MissionCover for Mexico and the United States: Their Linked DestiniesCover for Children of the Civil Rights EraCover for Celebrating HanukkahCover for America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience from A to ZCover for The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War IICover for The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on TrialCover for Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about KindnessCover for Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan Laflesche Picotte (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for The March on WashingtonCover for I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)Cover for A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919Cover for Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)Cover for Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))Cover for The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History)Cover for A Fence Away From FreedomCover for Buffalo HuntCover for Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett TillCover for W.E.B. Dubois (Impact Biographies Series)Cover for The Life and Death of Crazy HorseCover for Through My EyesCover for Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story about Sojourner Truth (Creative Minds Biography)Cover for Thurgood Marshall: A Life for JusticeCover for Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. MarshalCover for Reaching OutCover for The Japanese American Family Album (American Family Albums)Cover for TeammatesCover for SacagaweaCover for John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights MovementCover for The Amazing Age of John Roy LynchCover for Women of Hope: African-Americans Who Made a DifferenceCover for The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights MovementCover for Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty (Captured History)Cover for Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American WhalersCover for Roberto Clemente: Baseball’s Humanitarian Hero (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp: Based on a Classroom DiaryCover for Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans)Cover for Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for DesegregationCover for United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones)Cover for Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke KahanamokuCover for RamadanCover for Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire (Famous African Americans)Cover for Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised EditionCover for Sitting Bull and His WorldCover for The UndefeatedCover for The Rise of Jim Crow (Drama of African-American History)Cover for Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)Cover for Leon’s StoryCover for Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary ManCover for Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End SlaveryCover for Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip FreelonCover for How My Family Lives in AmericaCover for Martin’s Dream DayCover for Maya Angelou: More Than a PoetCover for HarrietCover for Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity (Hot Issues)Cover for Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection)Cover for Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp (Way People Live)Cover for Dear Benjamin BannekerCover for Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir (Women of Our Time)Cover for Buffalo DaysCover for The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. PayneCover for A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” JohnsonCover for The Chinese AmericansCover for Lincoln and Douglass: An American FriendshipCover for The Sound That Jazz MakesCover for Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justiciaCover for Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of JazzCover for The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (At Issue in History)Cover for Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses HortonCover for Booker T. Washington and EducationCover for Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to PeaceCover for Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American RevolutionCover for Hector lives in the United States now: The story of a Mexican-American childCover for Langston HughesCover for History Firsthand - Early Black Reformers (History Firsthand Series)Cover for Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park ServiceCover for Black Stars of the Harlem RenaissanceCover for Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement)Cover for Because of You, John LewisCover for Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage BandCover for Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot BoxCover for New Kids In Town: Oral Histories Of Immigrant Teens (Scholastic Biography)Cover for Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth AmendmentCover for Sequoyah’s Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee LeaderCover for To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth TodayCover for Doll Test: Choosing EqualityCover for Hoang Anh A Vietnamese-American BoyCover for Children of the MayaCover for The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’Iulani of Hawai’ICover for Rosa ParksCover for Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of SongCover for Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave (We Are Still Here)Cover for Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in MarbleCover for How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling BeeCover for Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in MississippiCover for Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in AmericaCover for Carter Reads the Newspaper

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