Lists and Suggestions for Kids

List: Coretta Scott King & John Steptoe Author Winners, 1990-Present

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

The 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre was one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nat... More

Woodson, Jacqueline, author.

ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional foo... More

Craft, Jerry,

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing ... More

Williams, Alicia.

Also available in Overdrive. Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black s... More

Watson, Renée.

Also available in Hoopla and RB Digital. Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private scho... More

Moore, David Barclay.

Also available in Overdrive. Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother'... More

Williams-Garcia, Rita.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. "Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to vis... More

Smith, Ronald L.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only... More

Woodson, Jacqueline.

Also available in Overdrive. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home... More

Williams-Garcia, Rita.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. The Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn, where they adapt to ... More

Pinkney, Andrea Davis.

Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized... More

Nelson, Kadir.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A simple introduction to African-American history, from Rev... More

Williams-Garcia, Rita.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oa... More

Bond, Victoria.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childh... More

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.

Also available in Overdrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeve... More

Magoon, Kekla.

In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's non... More

Nelson, Kadir.

Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League ... More

Curtis, Christopher Paul.

Also available in Overdrive. In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in ... More

Frazier, Sundee Tucker.

Alson available in Overdrive. Brendan Buckley, a biracial ten-year-old, applies his scientific prob... More

Morrison, Toni.

Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical even... More

Woodson, Jacqueline.

Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Ch... More

Curtis, Christopher Paul.

Also available in Overdrive. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during th... More

Johnson, Angela.

Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted whe... More

Flake, Sharon G.

Also available in RB Digital. Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely... More

McKissack, Patricia C.

Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation ... More

McKissack, Patricia C.

Also available in Overdrive. A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed t... More

Taylor, Mildred D.

Also available in Overdrive. As America hovers on the brink of war, seventeen year-old Cassie Logan ... More