Coretta Scott King Award Winners
2001-2025
Twenty-Four Seconds From Now : A Love Story
by Jason Reynolds

The #1 New York Times best-selling author tackles a first-time sexual experience from the guy's perspective in this unfiltered and undeniably sweet stream of consciousness story about teen boy Neon, who is about to experience a huge first with his girlfriend, Aria. 

2011-2024 Award Winners
2001-2010 Award Winners
2011-2024 Award Winners
2024: Nigeria Jones by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
2023: Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
2022: R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford
2022: Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
2021: Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
2020: The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
2020: New Kid by Jerry Craft
2019: The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer
2019: A Few Red Drops : The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 by Claire Hartfield
2018: Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
2018: Out of Wonder : Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander
2017: March. Book Three by John Lewis
2017: Radiant Child : The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
2016: Gone crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
2016: Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
2015: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
2015: Firebird by Misty Copeland
 2014: P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
 2014: Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream For Me by Daniel Beaty
 2013: Hand in Hand by Andrea Davis Pinkney
 2013: I, Too, am America by Langston Hughes
 2012: Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson
 2012: Underground by Shane Evans
 2011: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
 2011: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill

2001-2010 Award Winners
2010: Bad News for Outlaws by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
2010: My People by Langston Hughes
2009: We are the Ship by Kadir Nelson
2009: The Blacker the Berry: Poems by Joyce Carol Thomas
2008: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
2008: Let it Shine by Ashley Bryan
2007: Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
2007: Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
Day of tears : a novel in dialogue by Julius Lester
2006: Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
2005: Remember : the journey to school integration by Toni Morrison
2005: Ellington was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
2004: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
2004: Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan
2003: Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
2003: Talkin' about Bessie by Nikki Grimes
2002: The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
2002: Goin' Someplace Special by Pat McKissack
2001: Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
2001: Uptown by Bryan Collier