The Coretta Scott King Awards
Title | The Coretta Scott King Awards PDF eBook |
Author | Carole J. McCollough |
Publisher | ALA Editions |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-06-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780838918692 |
Marking the 50th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King (CSK) Book Awards, this invaluable guide celebrates the legacy of these prestigious honors, which have enlarged the prominence of literature for children and youth about the Black experience.
Martin Luther King, Jr
Title | Martin Luther King, Jr PDF eBook |
Author | Lillie Patterson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A biography of the minister, orator, and crusader for equal civil rights who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Title | The Stars and the Blackness Between Them PDF eBook |
Author | Junauda Petrus |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2020-06-23 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0525555498 |
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both. Port of Spain, Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just found out she's going to be sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's daughter. Audre's grandmother Queenie (a former dancer who drives a white convertible Cadillac and who has a few secrets of her own) tries to reassure her granddaughter that she won't lose her roots, not even in some place called Minneapolis. "America have dey spirits too, believe me," she tells Audre. Minneapolis, USA. Sixteen-year-old Mabel is lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling and trying to figure out why she feels the way she feels--about her ex Terrell, about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods, and about the vague feeling of illness that's plagued her all summer. Mabel's reverie is cut short when her father announces that his best friend and his just-arrived-from-Trinidad daughter are coming for dinner. Mabel quickly falls hard for Audre and is determined to take care of her as she tries to navigate an American high school. But their romance takes a turn when test results reveal exactly why Mabel has been feeling low-key sick all summer and suddenly it's Audre who is caring for Mabel as she faces a deeply uncertain future. Junauda Petrus's debut brilliantly captures the distinctly lush and lyrical voices of Mabel and Audre as they conjure a love that is stronger than hatred, prison, and death and as vast as the blackness between the stars.
Slam!
Title | Slam! PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Dean Myers |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780590486682 |
Sixtee-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
Beautiful Blackbird
Title | Beautiful Blackbird PDF eBook |
Author | Ashley Bryan |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 19 |
Release | 2024-05-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1665960272 |
With vibrant cut-paper collages, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner presents an adaptation of a folktale from Zimbabwe that celebrates the importance of appreciating one's own inner beauty. Full color.
Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration
Title | Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration PDF eBook |
Author | Samara Cole Doyon |
Publisher | Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Pages | 38 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0884487997 |
Coretta Scott King 2021 Honoree A winner of the ILA 2021 Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Awards in the fiction category. NCSS 2021 Notable Social Studies Book Maine Lupine Award Winner A CBC Recommended Book • A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Picture Book of 2020 Kirkus Starred Review PW Starred Review School Library Journal Starred Review Told by a succession of exuberant young narrators, Magnificent Homespun Brown is a story -- a song, a poem, a celebration -- about feeling at home in one’s own beloved skin. With vivid illustrations by Kaylani Juanita, Samara Cole Doyon sings a carol for the plenitude that surrounds us and the self each of us is meant to inhabit.
A Few Red Drops
Title | A Few Red Drops PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Hartfield |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0544785134 |
On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Archival photos and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.