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Coretta Scott King Book Author Award Winners (Chronological)

The Coretta Scott King Book Award is given every year to outstanding African American authors and illustrators who demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. -TAG 1/30/2026

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  • Will's Race for Home

    a Western

    Rhodes, Jewell Parker,
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — J FICTION Rhodes Jewell 03/2025

  • Nigeria Jones

    Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
    Book, 2023New York : Balzer + Bray, [2023] — TEEN FICTION Zoboi Ibi 05/2023

  • Freewater

    Luqman-Dawson, Amina,
    Book, 2022New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — J FICTION LuqmanDa Amina

  • Before the Ever After

    Woodson, Jacqueline,
    Book, 2020New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2020] — J FICTION Woodson Jacqueli 09/2020

  • New Kid

    Craft, Jerry,
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. — J GRAPHIC Craft Jerry

  • A Few Red Drops

    the Chicago Race Riots of 1919

    Hartfield, Claire,
    Book, 2018Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] — TEEN 305.896 Hartfiel

  • Piecing Me Together

    Watson, Renée,
    Book, 2017New York : Bloomsbury, 2017. — TEEN FICTION Watson Renee

  • March. Book Three

    Lewis, John, 1940-2020,
    Graphic Novel, 2016Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2016] — GRAPHIC BIO LEWIS J. Lewis v.3

  • Gone Crazy in Alabama

    Williams-Garcia, Rita
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] — J FICTION Williams Rita 04/2015

  • Hand in Hand

    Ten Black Men Who Changed America

    Pinkney, Andrea Davis
    Book, 2012New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun, c2012. — J 920 Pinkney 10/2012

  • Heart and Soul

    the Story of America and African Americans

    Nelson, Kadir
    Book, 2011New York : Balzer + Bray, c2011. — J 973 Nelson 09/2011

  • Bad News for Outlaws

    the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshall

    Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
    Book, 2009Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2009. — J BIO REEVES B. Nelson

  • We Are the Ship

    the Story of Negro League Baseball

    Nelson, Kadir
    Book, 2008New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2008. — J 796.357 Nelson