2009-2000 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books
2009
- We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson**
- The Blacker the Berry written and illustrated by Floyd Cooper**
- Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith*
- The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas*
- Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford*
- We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson*
- The Moon Over Star by Diana Hutts Aston and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney*
- Before John Was a Jazz Giant written and illustrated by Sean Qualls*
2008
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis**
- Let It Shine by Ashley Bryan**
- November Blues by Sharon M. Draper
- Twelve Rounds to Glory by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
- The Secret Olivia Told Me by N. Joy
2007
- Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper**
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Kadir Nelson** - Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes
- Jazz by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers
- Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
2006
- Day of Tears: a Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester**
- Rosa by Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier**
- Maritcha: a Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
- Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
- A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
- Brothers in Hope: the Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
by R. Gregory Christie
2005
- Remember: the Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison**
- Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange and
illustrated by Kadir A. Nelson** - The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses
- Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake
- Fortune's Bones: the Manumission Requiem by Marily Nelson
- God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. and
illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon - The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
2004
- The First Part Last by Angela Johnson**
- Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan**
- The Days of Jubilee: the End of Slavery in the United States
by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack - Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper
- Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and
illustrated by Colin Bootman - Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
2003
- Bronx Masquerade
by Nikki Grimes** - Talkin' About Bessie: the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by
Nikki Grimes and illustrated by E. B. Lewis** - The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
- Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles-Think of That
by Leo and Diane Dillion - Visiting Langston by Willie Perdomo and illustrated by Bryan Collier
2002
- The Land by Mildred D. Taylor**
- Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack and
illustrated by Jerry Pinkney** - Carver: a Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
- Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
- Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport and
illustrated by Bryan Collier
2001
- Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson**
- Uptown by Bryan Collier**
- Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
by Andrea Davis Pinkney - Freedom River by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Bryan Collier
- Only Passing Through: the Story of Sojourner Truth
by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie - Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard and Illustrated by E. B. Lewis
2000
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis**
- In the Time of the Drums by Kim L. Siegelson and
illustrated by Brian Pinkney** - Francie by Karen English
- Black Hands, White Sails: the Story of African-American Whalers
by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack - Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- My Rows and Piles of Coins by Tololwa M. Mollel and
illustrated by E. B. Lewis - Black Cat by Christopher Myers
** award winner

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