The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the Coretta Scott King Book Award Round Table, part of the American Library Association (ALA)...
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Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin...
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leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, he was also the brother of Martin Luther King III, Bernice King, and Yolanda King; and also grandson...
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Bud, Not Buddy (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
Medal for excellence in American children's literature, and the Coretta Scott King Award, which is given to outstanding African-American authors. Bud, Not...
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Sharon M. Draper (category Margaret A. Edwards Award winners)
National Teacher of the Year. She is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for books about the young and adolescent African-American experience...
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Simon & Schuster/McElderry. Legendborn received the Coretta Scott King Award/John Steptoe Award for New Talent as well as a nomination for the Los Angeles...
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Copper Sun (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
Copper Sun is a 2006 young adult novel by Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon Draper. When Draper traveled to Ghana, West Africa, she visited...
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author Kwame Alexander and the winner of the 2015 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award Honor. The book, which is told entirely through verse, was first...
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Elijah of Buxton (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
critical praise and was a Newbery Honor book and the winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. It also was a children's book bestseller. Elijah of Buxton is...
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One Crazy Summer (novel) (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
National Book Award finalist for young people's literature. In 2011 it won the Coretta Scott King Award for its author, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical...
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Freewater (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
slavery and find a community in the Great Dismal Swamp, won both the Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Medal in 2023. Luqman-Dawson's book is set in the southeastern...
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R. Gregory Christie (section Awards)
books, middle grade novels, and album covers best known for his Coretta Scott King Award-winning books No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life...
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Monster (Myers novel) (category Michael L. Printz Award-winning works)
1999 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2000, and was named a Coretta Scott King Award Honor the same year...
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advocate. The elder son of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, King served as the fourth president of the Southern Christian...
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Christopher Paul Curtis (section Awards and honors)
recognition, receiving the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award and the Newbery Honor Book Award in addition to numerous other awards. In 2000, he became the...
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Freedom in Congo Square (section Awards and honors)
historic detail." In 2017, the book received a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award honor for its illustrations. Freedom in Congo Square is written...
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an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for her Coretta Scott King Award-winning debut We Deserve Monuments. Hammonds says she enjoys writing...
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Hope Anita Smith (section Awards and honors)
American poet and author of children's books, best known for her Coretta Scott King Award-winning middle grade novel Keeping the Night Watch. Smith was born...
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Edythe Scott Bagley (December 13, 1924 – June 11, 2011) was an American author, activist, and educator. The older sister of Coretta Scott King, she worked...
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Kwame Alexander (section Awards and honors)
the 2015 Newbery Medal and was selected as an Honor book for the Coretta Scott King Award. The Crossover, Booked, Out of Wonder, Solo, Becoming Mohammed...
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Before She Was Harriet (section Awards and honors)
James Ransome, first published by Holiday House. It was awarded an honorary Coretta Scott King Award in 2018. This children's picture book details the life...
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Jason Reynolds (category Margaret A. Edwards Award winners)
Awards, a Walter Dean Myers Award from the We Need Diverse Books organization, a Coretta Scott King Honor, and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for...
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Fallen Angels (Myers novel) (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
written by Walter Dean Myers, about the Vietnam War. It won the 1988 Coretta Scott King Award. Fallen Angels is listed as number 16 in the American Library Association's...
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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
childhood and early career. It won the 2017 Caldecott Medal and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for its illustrations. Javaka Steptoe first thought of doing...
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first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, who pursued artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking...
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Floyd Cooper, originally published by Wordsong. It won an honorary Coretta Scott King Award in 2009. Through a series of poems, Weatherford outlines the evolution...
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Brown Girl Dreaming (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
African American sisters. National Book Award for Young People's Literature Coretta Scott King Award NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Young...
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New Kid (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award and the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature. It was the first graphic novel to be awarded the Newbery...
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Let the Circle Be Unbroken (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
emphasizes themes of self-respect, hard work, and pride. It won the Coretta Scott King Author Award in 1982. A recording by Lynne Thigpen was named to the 1996...
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National Book Award finalist for Young People's Literature. She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical...
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