All 354 Coretta Scott King Award Winning and Honored Books Since 1970
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Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
by Ibi Zoboi (Dutton Books for Young Readers)

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile (Norton Young Readers)

Standing in the Need of Prayer (paperback): A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Crown Books for Young Readers)

Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love
by Michelle Edwards (Anne Schwartz Books)

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile (Norton Young Readers)

We Deserve Monuments
by Jas Hammonds (Roaring Brook Press)

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
by Angela Joy (Roaring Brook Press)

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Carolrhoda Books)

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
by Kekla Magoon (Candlewick Press)

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Carolrhoda Books)

Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
by Traci N. Todd (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)

Me (Moth)
by Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends)

The Me I Choose to Be
by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
by Mildred D. Taylor (Viking Books for Young Readers)

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box
by Evette Dionne (Viking Books for Young Readers)

Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
by Suzanne Slade (Harry N. Abrams)

Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration
by Samara Cole Doyon (Tilbury House Publishers)

Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn (Margaret K. McElderry Books)

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
by Junauda Petrus (Dutton Books for Young Readers)

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
by Kwame Mbalia (Rick Riordan Presents)

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace
by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)

Genesis Begins Again
by Alicia D. Williams (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)

What Is Given from the Heart
by Patricia C. Mckissack (Schwartz & Wade)

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
by Claire Hartfield (Clarion Books)

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly (HarperCollins)

Let the Children March
by Monica Clark-Robinson (HMH Books for Young Readers)

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
by Alice Faye Duncan (Calkins Creek)

Monday’s Not Coming
by Tiffany D. Jackson (Katherine Tegen Books)

Thank You, Omu!
by Oge Mora (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
by Kwame Alexander (Candlewick Press)

The Stars Beneath Our Feet
by David Barclay Moore (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song
by Kathryn Erskine (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers)

Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life
by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
by Javaka Steptoe (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Last Stop on Market Street
by Matt De La Peña (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda Books)

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Candlewick Press)

Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker
by Patricia Hruby Powell (Chronicle Books)

Little Melba And Her Big Trombone
by Katheryn Russell-Brown (Lee & Low Books)

When I Was the Greatest (paperback)
by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream For Me
by Daniel Beaty (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

When The Beat Was Born: Dj Kool Herc And The Creation Of Hip Hop
by Laban Carrick Hill (Palgrave Macmillan)

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney (Disney-Hyperion)

I, Too, Am America
by Langston Hughes (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Ellen’s Broom
by Kelly Starling Lyons (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)

H.O.R.S.E.: A Game Of Basketball And Imagination
by Christopher Myers (Egmont USA)

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
by Kadir Nelson (Amistad)

Never Forgotten
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Schwartz & Wade)

Underground: Finding The Light To Freedom
by Shane W. Evans (Palgrave Macmillan)

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
by Kadir Nelson (Amistad)

Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Jimi: Sounds Like A Rainbow: A Story Of The Young Jimi Hendrix
by Gary Golio (Clarion Books)

Seeds Of Change: Planting A Path To Peace
by Jen Johnson (Lee & Low Books)

Zora and Me
by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick Press)

Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda Books)

We Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball
by Kadir Nelson (Disney-Hyperion)

Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Henry Holt & Company)

We Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball
by Kadir Nelson (Disney-Hyperion)

12 Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
by Charles R. Smith Jr. (Candlewick Press)

Jazz On A Saturday Night (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
by Leo & Diane Dillon (The Blue Sky Press)

Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It
by Sundee T. Frazier (Yearling)

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Disney-Hyperion)

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes (Sterling Children’s Books)

Remember: The Journey to School Integration
by Toni Morrison (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Ellington Was Not a Street
by Ntozake Shange (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

Jazzy Miz Mozetta
by Brenda C. Roberts (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers)

Missy Violet and Me
by Barbara Hathaway (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The First Part Last
by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Days Of Jubilee
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Scholastic Press)

Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
by Nikki Grimes (Scholastic Inc)

Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
by Nikki Grimes (Scholastic Inc)

Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles - Think of That!
by Leo & Diane Dillon (Scholastic Inc)

Chill Wind
by Janet McDonald (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers)

Goin’ Someplace Special
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Aladdin)

Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Doreen Rappaport (Disney-Hyperion)

Freedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer
by Maya Angelou (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys
by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Aladdin)

Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Scholastic Press)

My Rows and Piles of Coins
by Tololwa M. Mollel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground
by Joyce Hansen (Henry Holt & Company)

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Disney-Hyperion)

Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
by James Haskins (Disney-Hyperion)

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865 (Dear America Series)
by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic Inc)

In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall
by Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books)

Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry
by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale
by Baba Wagué Diakité (Scholastic Inc)

Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Scholastic Press)

Running The Road To ABC (Aladdin Picture Books)
by Denize Lauture (Aladdin)

The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children
by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low Books)

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales
by Virginia Hamilton (Blue Sky Press)

The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo
by Tom Feelings (Dial Books for Young Readers)

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales
by Virginia Hamilton (Blue Sky Press)

Christmas In The Big House: Christmas In The Quarters
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Scholastic Inc)

Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues (Polaris)
by Patricia C. Mckissack (Scholastic Paperbacks)

The Singing Man: Adapted from a West African Folktale
by Angela S. Medearis (Holiday House)

Tears Of A Tiger (Hazelwood High Trilogy)
by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Soul Looks Back in Wonder
by Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Walter Dean Myers, Haki R. Madhubuti, Lucille Clifton and 8 others (Puffin Books)

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
by Patricia C. Mckissack (Yearling)

Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?
by Patricia C. Mckissack (Scholastic Paperbacks)

The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth
by Sankofa and David A. Anderson (Sights Production)

Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad)

Night on Neighborhood Street (Picture Puffins)
by Eloise Greenfield (Puffin Books)

All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals
by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Night on Neighborhood Street (Picture Puffins)
by Eloise Greenfield (Puffin Books)

Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People
by James Haskins (Harper & Row)

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Walker’s American History Series for Young People)
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Walker Childrens)

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement (Makers of America)
by Lillie Patterson (Checkmark Books)

A Thief in the Village: And Other Stories of Jamaica
by James Berry (Puffin Books)

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books)
by Virginia Hamilton (Laurel Leaf)

An Enchanted Hair Tale (Reading Rainbow Book)
by Alexis De Veaux (Harpercollins Childrens Books)

Tales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
by Julius Lester (Puffin Books)

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
by John Steptoe (Puffin Books)

The Invisible Hunters/Los cazadores invisibles (Stories from Central America)
by Harriet Rohmer, Octavio Chow, and Morris Viduare (Children’s Book Press)

What a Morning!: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals (Aladdin Picture Books)
by John Langstaff (Aladdin)

Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems
by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Half a Moon and One Whole Star
by Crescent Dragonwagon (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems
by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
by Leo & Diane Dillon (Alfred A. Knopf)

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
by Leo & Diane Dillon (Alfred A. Knopf)

Lena: A Personal and Professional Biography of Lena Horne
by James Haskins (Stein & Day)

I’m Going to Sing (Black American Spirituals, Vol. 2)
by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)

Mary: An Autobiography (Chapel Hill Books)
by Mary E. Mebane (The University of North Carolina Press)

Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday
by Alexis De Veaux (Writers and Readers Publishing)

Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum (Aladdin Books)
by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Andrew Young, Man With a Mission
by James Haskins (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books)

Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little (Amistad)

Escape To Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass (Puffin books)
by Ossie Davis (Puffin Books)

Coretta Scott King (Americans All)
by Lillie Patterson (Garrard Publishing Company)

Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington
by Ruth Ann Stewart (Doubleday)

The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be (Young Readers)
by William J. Faulkner (Africa World Press)

Quiz Book on Black America
by Clarence N. Blake and Donald F. Martin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial Books for Young Readers)

The Legend of Africania (An Ebony Jr! Book)
by Dorothy W. Robinson (Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.)

I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett (Ecco)

The Ebony Book of Black Achievement
by Margaret Peters (Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.)

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
by Shirley Chisholm (Take Root Media)