Coretta Scott King Winners for Kids

Coretta Scott King award and honor children's books from 2012-2024 that are available from Loveland Public Library.

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Star rating for An American story
Description:
"A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson"--
Book cover for "As brave as you"
Star rating for As brave as you
Description:
Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia—in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck and—being a curious kid—Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he covers it so well (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans). How...
Book cover for "Before she was Harriet"
Star rating for Before she was Harriet
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A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse. An evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.
Book cover for "Before the ever after"
Star rating for Before the ever after
Description:
For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand...
Book cover for "Brown girl dreaming"
Star rating for Brown girl dreaming
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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.
Book cover for "Crown"
Star rating for Crown
Description:
Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly cut hair.
Book cover for "Each kindness"
Star rating for Each kindness
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
Book cover for "Finding Langston"
Star rating for Finding Langston
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Description:
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Book cover for "Freewater"
Star rating for Freewater
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
Book cover for "Gone crazy in Alabama"
Star rating for Gone crazy in Alabama
Series:
Gaither sisters volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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.
Book cover for "Last stop on Market Street"
Star rating for Last stop on Market Street
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
Book cover for "Lifting as we climb"
Star rating for Lifting as we climb
Description:
"For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of Black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle." -- Publisher's description.
Book cover for "P.S. be eleven"
Star rating for P.S. be eleven
Series:
Gaither sisters volume 2.
Description:
"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,...
Book cover for "The season of Styx Malone"
Star rating for The season of Styx Malone
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Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
Book cover for "The stars beneath our feet"
Star rating for The stars beneath our feet
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
Book cover for "Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky"
Star rating for Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky
Series:
Tristan Strong volume 1.
Description:
"Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm in Alabama, where he is being sent to heal from the trajedy. On his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie's journal. Tristan...
Book cover for "Unspeakable"
Star rating for Unspeakable
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--