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2009-2000 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books

2009

  • We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball [1] written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson**
  • The Blacker the Berry [2] written and illustrated by Floyd Cooper**
  • Keeping the Night Watch [3] by Hope Anita Smith*
  • The Blacker the Berry [2] by Joyce Carol Thomas*
  • Becoming Billie Holiday [4] by Carole Boston Weatherford*
  • We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball [1] written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson*
  • The Moon Over Star [5] 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 [6]by Christopher Paul Curtis**
  • Let It Shine by Ashley Bryan**
  • November Blues [7] by Sharon M. Draper
  • Twelve Rounds to Glory [8] by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
  • The Secret Olivia Told Me by N. Joy

2007

  • Copper Sun [9] by Sharon M. Draper**
  • Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom [10]
    by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Kadir Nelson**
  • Road to Paris [11] by Nikki Grimes
  • Jazz [12]by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers
  • Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

2006

  • Day of Tears: a Novel in Dialogue [13] by Julius Lester**
  • Rosa [14] by Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier**
  • Maritcha: a Nineteenth-Century American Girl [15] by Tonya Bolden
  • Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
  • A Wreath for Emmett Till [16] 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 [17] by Toni Morrison**
  • Ellington Was Not a Street [18] by Ntozake Shange and
    illustrated by Kadir A. Nelson**
  • The Legend of Buddy Bush [19] by Shelia P. Moses
  • Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives [20] by Sharon G. Flake
  • Fortune's Bones: the Manumission Requiem [21] by Marily Nelson
  • God Bless the Child [22] by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. and
    illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
  • The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales [23] by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

2004

  • The First Part Last [24] by Angela Johnson**
  • Beautiful Blackbird [25] by Ashley Bryan**
  • The Days of Jubilee: the End of Slavery in the United States [26]
    by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
  • Locomotion [27] by Jacqueline Woodson
  • The Battle of Jericho [28] by Sharon Draper
  • Almost to Freedom [29] by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and
    illustrated by Colin Bootman
  • Thunder Rose [30] by Jerdine Nolen and illustrated by Kadir Nelson

2003

  • Bronx Masquerade [31]
    by Nikki Grimes**
  • Talkin' About Bessie: the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman [32] 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 [33]
    by Leo and Diane Dillion
  • Visiting Langston by Willie Perdomo and illustrated by Bryan Collier

2002

  • The Land [34]by Mildred D. Taylor**
  • Goin' Someplace Special [35] by Patricia McKissack and
    illustrated by Jerry Pinkney**
  • Carver: a Life in Poems [36] by Marilyn Nelson
  • Money-Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
  • Martin's Big Words [37] by Doreen Rappaport and
    illustrated by Bryan Collier

2001

  • Miracle's Boys [38] by Jacqueline Woodson**
  • Uptown [39]by Bryan Collier**
  • Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters [40]
    by Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • Freedom River [41] by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Bryan Collier
  • Only Passing Through: the Story of Sojourner Truth [42]
    by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
  • Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys [43] by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard and Illustrated by E. B. Lewis

2000

  • Bud, Not Buddy [44] by Christopher Paul Curtis**
  • In the Time of the Drums [45] by Kim L. Siegelson and
    illustrated by Brian Pinkney**
  • Francie [46] by Karen English
  • Black Hands, White Sails: the Story of African-American Whalers
    by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
  • Monster [47] 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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