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Soul Looks Back in Wonder
Artwork and poems by such writers as Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Askia Toure portray the creativity, strength, and beauty of their African American heritage. [1994 Winner for Illustration]
1993
Appears on the following book lists:
 Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrators
Jane Addams Peace Award for Younger Readers honor
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Draper, Sharon M.
November Blues
A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school. [2008 Honor Book]
316 pages , 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award author honor
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Draper, Sharon M.
Copper Sun
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves. [2007 Winner]
302 pages , 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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Draper, Sharon M.
The Battle of Jericho
When Jericho is invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction, he thinks his life can't get any better. As the most exclusive club in school, the Warriors give the best parties, go out with the hottest girls, and sail through their classes. But as the initiation week becomes progressively harrowing, he's forced to make choices he's not entirely comfortable with, until the fine line between fun and games, and life and death is crossed. [2004 Honor Book]
337 pages , 2005
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Draper, Sharon M.
Forged By Fire
After surviving a fire, Gerald experiences separation from his mother, the loss of his great aunt, and life with his stepsister's abusive father. [1998 Winner]
151 pages , 1997
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
A Child Called It
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Draper, Sharon M.
Tears of a Tiger
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school. [1995 John Steptoe Award for New Talent]
162 p. 1994
Appears on the following book lists:
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Flake, Sharon
The Skin I'm in
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like. [1999 John Steptoe Award for New Talent]
171 p. 1998
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Flake, Sharon
Money Hungry
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again. [2002 Honor Book]
187 pages , 2001
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award author honor
It's Due Tomorrow!
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Flake, Sharon
Who Am I Without Him? : Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives
Sharon Flake takes readers through the minds of girls trying to define themselves while struggling to remain relevant to the boys in their lives. This is a complex, often humorous, always on-point exposition of black youth resolving to find self-worth . . . any way they know how. [2005 Honor Book]
168 pages , 2004
Appears on the following book lists:
Good Reads for High School
Coretta Scott King Award author honor
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Grimes, Nikki
Dark Sons
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers. [2006 Honor Book]
216 pages , 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Christian Fiction and More
Coretta Scott King Award author honor
Poetry for Teens
Urban Lit
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Grimes, Nikki
Bronx Masquerade
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates. [2003 Winner]
167 pages , 2001
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
Book Trailers - Spring 2009
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Grimes, Nikki
Jazmin's Notebook
Jazmin, a fourteen-year-old Afo-American girl who lives with her sister in a Harlem apartment, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a diary. [1999 Honor Book]
102 pages , 1998
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award author honor
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Hansen, Joyce
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence : the Story of New York's African Burial Ground
Describes the rediscovery and study of the African Burial Ground found in Manhattan in 1991, while excavating for a new building, and what it reveals about the lives of Africans in Colonial New York. [1999 Honor Book]
130 pages , 1998
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award author honor
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Haskins, James
Bayard Rustin : Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
A biography of Bayard Rustin, a skillful organizer behind the scenes of the American civil rights movement whose ideas stongly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. [1998 Honor Book]
121 pages , 1997
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award author honor
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Hughes, Langston
Langston Hughes
A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children. [2007 Honor Book for Illustration]
48 pages , 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award illustrator honor
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Johnson, Angela
Toning the Sweep
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her Black family's history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living. [1994 Winner]
103 pages , 1993
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
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Johnson, Angela
Heaven
Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents. [1999 Winner]
138 pages , 1998
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
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Johnson, Angela
The First Part Last
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. [2004 Winner]
131 pages , 2003
Appears on the following book lists:
It's Due Tomorrow!
Good Reads for High School
Urban Lit
Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
Printz Medal Winners
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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King, Martin Luther, Jr.
The Words of Martin Luther King Jr.
More than 120 quotations on the community of man, racism, civil rights, justice and freedom, faith and religion, nonviolence, and peace. [1984 Special Citation]
112 pages , 1983
Appears on the following book lists:
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Lester, Julius
Day of Tears : a Novel in Dialogue
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave assets, possibly including Emma. [2006 Winner]
177 pages , 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
Fabulous Reads for Middle Schoolers
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