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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1. Before the ever after

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Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook
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...

2. Brown girl dreaming

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Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
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.

3. King and the dragonflies

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Author:
Callender, Kacen
Formats:
Book, Playaway
Description:
"Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town, [but he] still visits in dreams . . . King must keep these secrets to himself [and can't even] talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders, [because] just days before he died, Khalid told [him] to end his friendship with Sandy,...

4. Lifting as we climb: Black women's battle for the ballot box

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Author:
Dionne, Evette
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eAudiobook
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.

5. New Kid

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Author:
Craft, Jerry
Series:
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Graphic Novel, OverDrive eComic
Description:

Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature!

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.

Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing

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6. The Parker inheritance

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Author:
Johnson, Varian
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eBook
Description:
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...

7. The stars beneath our feet

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Author:
Moore, David Barclay
Average Rating:
5 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Read-Along Book
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.

8. Swim team

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Author:
Christmas, Johnnie
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Graphic Novel, OverDrive eComic
Description:

"Combines wonderful characters and history to create a story that will make you want to dive right in!" JERRY CRAFT, author of the Newbery Medal–winning New Kid

A splashy, contemporary middle grade graphic novel from bestselling comics creator Johnnie Christmas!

Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees—until she's stuck with the only elective

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9. Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky

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Author:
Mbalia, Kwame
Series:
Tristan Strong volume 1.
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
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...