OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH

Created on February 22, 2021, 3:51 pm

Last Updated February 3, 2022, 10:45 am

Here are the Oak Brook Public Library's copies of the Coretta Scott King Book Award winners from the 1970's through today. The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.

1) R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul

Author

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Description

"Aretha Franklin was born to sing. The daughter of a pastor and a gospel singer, her musical talent was clear from her earliest days in her father's Detroit church. Aretha sang with a soaring voice that spanned more than three octaves. Her incredible talent and string of hit songs earned her the title "the Queen of Soul." This Queen was a multi-Grammy winner and the first female inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And there was even more to...

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Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Graphic Novel, Pre-loaded Audio

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"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...

3) P.S. be eleven

Author

Williams-Garcia, Rita

Series

Gaither sisters volume 2

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Pre-loaded Audio

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"Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in Oakland,...

4) Knock knock: my dad's dream for me

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"A boy wakes up one morning to find his father gone. At first, he feels lost. But his father has left him a letter filled with advice to guide him through the times he cannot be there"--

5) Hand in hand: ten Black men who changed America

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Pinkney, Andrea Davis

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Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.

6) Heart and soul: the story of America and African Americans

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Wonderbook

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Presents an introduction to African-American history, from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.

7) One crazy summer

Author

Williams-Garcia, Rita

Series

Gaither sisters volume 1

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Pre-loaded Audio

Description

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

8) Dave, the potter: artist, poet, slave

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Hill, Laban Carrick

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Book, Audiobook CD

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Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.

9) Bad news for outlaws: the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshall

Author

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux

Series

Exceptional Social Studies Titles for Intermediate Grades

Description

This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma.

10) The undefeated

Author

Alexander, Kwame

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes. The text is...

11) A few red drops: the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

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Hartfield, Claire

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Pre-loaded Audio

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This gripping account of the 1919 summer day that precipitated a full-blown race riot in Chicago traces the events and forces that made the explosion inevitable.

12) The stuff of stars

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Bauer, Marion Dane

Description

Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while vivid illustrations...

13) Piecing me together

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Book, Audiobook CD, eBook, Kindle, Pre-loaded Audio

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Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.

14) Out of wonder: poems celebrating poets

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Presents a collection of 20 poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world. Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder. Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts...

15) March: Book three

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March volume 3

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eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and...

16) Radiant child: the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Steptoe, Javaka

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Wonderbook

Description

Jean-Michael Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers...

17) Gone crazy in Alabama

Author

Williams-Garcia, Rita

Series

Gaither sisters volume 3

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway Bookpack, Pre-loaded Audio

Description

"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible"--From...

18) Trombone Shorty

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Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eBook, Kindle

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Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.

19) Brown girl dreaming

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

Series

Thorndike Press large print literacy bridge

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Description

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...

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Copeland, Misty

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.