Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Coretta Scott King & John Steptoe Author Winners, 1990-Present
Before the Ever After
Woodson, Jacqueline, author.
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional foo...
New Kid
Craft, Jerry,
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing ...
Genesis Begins Again
Williams, Alicia.
Also available in Overdrive. Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black s...
Piecing Me Together
Watson, Renée.
Also available in Hoopla and RB Digital. Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private scho...
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
Moore, David Barclay.
Also available in Overdrive. Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother'...
Gone Crazy in Alabama
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. "Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to vis...
Hoodoo
Smith, Ronald L.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only...
Brown Girl Dreaming
Woodson, Jacqueline.
Also available in Overdrive. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home...
P.S. Be Eleven
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. The Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn, where they adapt to ...
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Nelson, Kadir.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A simple introduction to African-American history, from Rev...
One Crazy Summer
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oa...
Zora and Me
Bond, Victoria.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childh...
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.
Also available in Overdrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeve...
The Rock and The River
Magoon, Kekla.
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's non...
We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Nelson, Kadir.
Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League ...
Elijah of Buxton
Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Also available in Overdrive. In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in ...
Brendan Buckley
Frazier, Sundee Tucker.
Alson available in Overdrive. Brendan Buckley, a biracial ten-year-old, applies his scientific prob...
Remember: The Journey to School Integration
Morrison, Toni.
Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical even...
The Way A Door Closes
Smith, Hope Anita.
In this beautifully written and powerfully moving novel in poems, Hope Anita Smith tells the story o...
Miracle
Woodson, Jacqueline.
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Ch...
Bud, Not Buddy
Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Also available in Overdrive. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during th...
Heaven
Johnson, Angela.
Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted whe...
The Skin I'm In
Flake, Sharon G.
Also available in RB Digital. Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely...
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
McKissack, Patricia C.
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation ...
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
McKissack, Patricia C.
Also available in Overdrive. A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed t...
The Road to Memphis
Taylor, Mildred D.
Also available in Overdrive. As America hovers on the brink of war, seventeen year-old Cassie Logan ...