Coretta Scott King Award - Author

Awards List

2022

Home Is Not a Country
(Honor Book)
Safia Elhillo

2021

Before the Ever After
(Winner)
Jacqueline Woodson

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
(Honor Book)
Mildred D. Taylor

King and the Dragonflies
(Honor Book)
Kacen Callender

2019

The Parker Inheritance
(Honor Book)
Varian Johnson

Finding Langston
(Honor Book)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

The Season of Styx Malone
(Honor Book)
Kekla Magoon

2018

Piecing Me Together
(Winner)
Renee Watson

The Hate U Give
(Honor Book)
Angie Thomas

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
(Honor Book)
Derrick Barnes

Long Way Down
(Honor Book)
Jason Reynolds

2017

As Brave as You
(Honor Book)
Jason Reynolds

Freedom Over Me
(Honor Book)
Ashley Bryan

2016

Gone Crazy in Alabama
(Winner)
Rita Williams-Garcia

The Boy in the Black Suit
(Honor Book)
Jason Reynolds

X
(Honor Book)
Ilyasah Shabazz

All American Boys
(Honor Book)
Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely

2015

The Crossover
(Honor Book)
Kwame Alexander

How It Went Down
(Honor Book)
Kekla Magoon

2014

P.S. Be Eleven
(Winner)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Darius & Twig
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

Words with Wings
(Honor Book)
Nikki Grimes

2013

No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
(Honor Book)
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Each Kindness
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson

2012

The Great Migration: Journey to the North
(Honor Book)
Eloise Greenfield

Never Forgotten
(Honor Book)
Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

2011

One Crazy Summer
(Winner)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Lockdown
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

Ninth Ward
(Honor Book)
Jewell Parker Rhodes

2010

Mare's War
(Honor Book)
Tanita S. Davis

2009

Becoming Billie Holiday
(Honor Book)
Carole Boston Weatherford

2008

Elijah of Buxton
(Winner)
Christopher Paul Curtis

November Blues
(Honor Book)
Sharon M. Draper

2007

Copper Sun
(Winner)
Sharon M. Draper

The Road to Paris
(Honor Book)
Nikki Grimes

2005

Legend of Buddy Bush
(Honor Book)
Shelia P. Moses

2004

The First Part Last
(Winner)
Angela Johnson

The Battle of Jericho
(Honor Book)
Sharon M. Draper
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Locomotion
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson

2003

Bronx Masquerade
(Winner)
Nikki Grimes

The Red Rose Box
(Honor Book)
Brenda Woods

Talkin' about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
(Honor Book)
Nikki Grimes

2001

Miracle's Boys
(Winner)
Jacqueline Woodson

2000

Bud, Not Buddy
(Winner)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Monster
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

1999

Heaven
(Winner)
Angela Johnson

1998

Forged by Fire
(Winner)
Sharon M. Draper

1997

Slam!
(Winner)
Walter Dean Myers

1996

Her Stories
(Winner)
Virginia Hamilton

The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963
(Honor Book)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Like Sisters on the Homefront
(Honor Book)
Rita Williams-Garcia

1994

Toning the Sweep
(Winner)
Angela Johnson

Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
(Honor Book)
Joyce Carol Thomas

1993

The Dark-Thirty
(Winner)
Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

1992

Night on Neighborhood Street
(Honor Book)
Eloise Greenfield

1991

The Road to Memphis
(Winner)
Mildred D. Taylor

When I Am Old with You
(Honor Book)
Angela Johnson

1989

A Thief in the Village
(Honor Book)
James Berry

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
(Honor Book)
Virginia Hamilton

1988

The Friendship
(Winner)
Mildred D. Taylor

The Tales of Uncle Remus
(Honor Book)
Julius Lester

1987

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
(Winner)
Mildred Pitts Walter

Which Way Freedom?
(Honor Book)
Joyce Hansen

1986

The People Could Fly
(Winner)
Virginia Hamilton

1985

Motown and Didi
(Winner)
Walter Dean Myers

Circle of Gold
(Honor Book)
Candy Dawson Boyd
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1984

Everett Anderson's Goodbye
(Winner)
Lucille Clifton

The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
(Honor Book)
Virginia Hamilton

Bright Shadow
(Honor Book)
Joyce Carol Thomas

1983

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
(Winner)
Virginia Hamilton

1982

Let the Circle Be Unbroken
(Winner)
Mildred D. Taylor

1980

Young Landlords
(Winner)
Walter Dean Myers
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
(Honor Book)
Eloise Greenfield

1979

I Have a Sister--My Sister Is Deaf
(Honor Book)
Jeanne W. Peterson

1978

Africa Dream
(Winner)
Eloise Greenfield

Mary McLeod Bethune
(Honor Book)
Eloise Greenfield

1976

Duey's Tale
(Winner)
Pearl Bailey

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