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Coretta Scott King Award – Author

2020 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

New Kid

Jerry Craft

2019 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Claire Hartfield

2018 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Piecing Me Together

Renee Watson

2017 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

March Book: Three

John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

2016 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Gone Crazy in Alabama

Rita Williams-Garcia

2015 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

brown girl dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

2014 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

P.S. Be Eleven

Rita Williams-Garcia

2013 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Andrea Davis Pinkney

2012 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Kadir Nelson

2011 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

2010 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

2009 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Kadir Nelson

2008 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis

2007 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Copper Sun

Sharon M. Draper

2006 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue

Julius Lester

2005 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Remember: The Journey to School Integration

Toni Morrison

2004 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

The First Part Last

Angela Johnson

2003 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Bronx Masquerade

Nikki Grimes

2002 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

The Land

Mildred D. Taylor

2001 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Miracle’s Boys

Jacqueline Woodson

2000 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

1999 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Heaven

Angela Johnson

1998 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Forged by Fire

Sharon M. Draper

1997 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Slam!

Walter Dean Myers

1996 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Her Stories

Virginia Hamilton

1995 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack

1994 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Toning the Sweep

Angela Johnson

1993 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

The Dark-Thirty

Patricia C. McKissack and Pat McKissack

1992 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom

Walter Dean Myers

1991 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

The Road to Memphis

Mildred D. Taylor

1990 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter

Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack

1989 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Fallen Angels

Walter Dean Myers

1988 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

The Friendship

Mildred D. Taylor

1987 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

Mildred Pitts Walter

1986 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

The People Could Fly

Virginia Hamilton

1985 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Motown and Didi

Walter Dean Myers

1984 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Everett Anderson’s Goodbye

Lucille Clifton

1983 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Virginia Hamilton

1982 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Mildred D. Taylor

1981 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

This Life

Sidney Poitier

1980 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Young Landlords

Walter Dean Myers

1979 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Escape to Freedom

Ossie Davis

1978 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Africa Dream

Eloise Greenfield

1977 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

The Story of Stevie Wonder

James Haskins

1976 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Duey’s Tale

Pearl Bailey

1975 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

The Legend of Africania

Dorothy Robinson

1974 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Ray Charles

Sharon Bell Mathis

1973 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

Alfred Duckett

1972 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

17 Black Artists

Elton Fax

1971 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes

Charlemae Rollins

1970 Coretta Scott King Award – Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace

Lillie Patterson