Elementary: Award Winners, Coretta Scott King Medal & Honors, Suggested for Ages 9-12

I have a dream

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

Remember : the journey to school integration

Morrison, Toni.

Presents a selection of archival photographs that document events surrounding the integration of U.S. schools following the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and includes captions in which Toni Morrison imagines what the people in the pictures must have been thinking and feeling.

Her stories : African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales

Hamilton, Virginia.

A collection of tales about the supernatural and animals, fairy tales, folk tales and legends, by and about African American women.

The last tales of Uncle Remus

Lester, Julius.

Retells the final adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Black hands, white sails : the story of African-American whalers

McKissack, Pat, 1944-.

A history of African-American whalers between 1730 and 1880, describing their contributions to the whaling industry and their role in the abolitionist movement.

We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball

Nelson, Kadir.

Explores the history of Negro League baseball teams, discussing owners, players, hardships, wins, and losses; and including illustrations.

Langston Hughes

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems by noted African-American poet Langston Hughes, and contains a detailed introduction and biography, as well as brief notes accompanying each poem.

Carver, a life in poems

Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-

Keeping the night watch

Smith, Hope Anita.

A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear.

Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America

Pinkney, Andrea Davis.

Offers insight into the lives of ten influential African American men from different times in the history of the United States.

Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters

McKissack, Pat, 1944-

Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

Elijah of Buxton

Curtis, Christopher Paul.

Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.

Josephine : the dazzling life of Josephine Baker

Powell, Patricia Hruby, 1951-

A portrait of the performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker.

Talkin' about Bessie : the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman

Grimes, Nikki.

A biography of the woman who became the first licensed Afro-American pilot.

Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Rappaport, Doreen.

Looks at the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, explaining his work to bring about a peaceful end to segregation.

March. Book 3

Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-, author.

Welcome to the conclusion of the March trilogy, in which Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to life for a new generation.

Malcolm X : a fire burning brightly

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Text and pictures describe the life and ideas of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.

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

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.

An illustrated biography of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States marshal, based on his ability to communicate with the Native Americans in the area that was to become Oklahoma.

Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman?

McKissack, Pat, 1944-

A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

Brown girl dreaming

Woodson, Jacqueline.

"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--Provided by publisher.

Bud, not Buddy

Curtis, Christopher Paul.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963

Curtis, Christopher Paul.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Francie

English, Karen.

When the sixteen-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship.

Toning the sweep

Johnson, Angela.

On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.

The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural

McKissack, Pat, 1944-

A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.

The road to Memphis

Taylor, Mildred D.

Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.

Brothers in hope : the story of the lost boys of Sudan

Williams, Mary, 1967-

Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, and then Kenya, before being offered sanctuary in the United States many years later.

One crazy summer

Williams-Garcia, Rita.

In the summer of 1968, after traveling 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.

The red rose box

Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)

In 1953, Leah Hopper dreams of leaving the poverty and segregation of her home in Sulphur, Louisiana, and when Aunt Olivia sends train tickets to Los Angeles as part of her tenth birthday present, Leah gets a first taste of freedom.

Locomotion

Woodson, Jacqueline.

Inspired by his teacher, eleven-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents.

The book itch : freedom, truth, & Harlem's greatest bookstore

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.

Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.