Coretta Scott King Award Winners
2001-2026
2026: Will's Race for Home
by Jewell Parker Rhodes

During the land rush of 1889, African American Will and his father journey from Texas to Oklahoma, racing thousands of others to stake their claim.
Will's Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes

2011-2024 Award Winners
2001-2010 Award Winners
2011-2024 Award Winners
2025: Twenty-Four Seconds from Now: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds
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