LibGuides: Black History Month All Year Long: Middle School

Just Added: New Middle Grade Books

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Middle Grade Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Action/Adventure Books

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Middle Grade Realistic Fiction

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Middle Grade Historical Fiction

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Middle Grade Graphic Fiction

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Non-Fiction and Biographies

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Just Added: New Young Adult Books

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Amanda Gorman - Artist Kimothy Joy

Amanda Gorman. Artist: Kimothy Joy

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Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood. Learn more about the Coretta Scott King Award and find resources and detailed information about the criteria and selection process.

Kwame Crashes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
Coretta Scott King and John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now ... by Jason Reynolds
Publication Date: 2024-10-08
2025 Coretta Scott King Author Winner
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; C. G. Esperanza (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2024-06-11
2025 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Winner
Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2024-02-13
2025 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Black Star by Kwame Alexander
Publication Date: 2024-09-24
2025 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publication Date: 2024-03-05
2025 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Coretta: the Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by Coretta Scott King; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2024-01-02
2025 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem by Gary Golio; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2024-01-16
2025 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Go Forth and Tell: the Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller by Breanna J. McDaniel; April Harrison (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2024-02-06
2025 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Jimmy's Rhythm and Blues by Michelle Meadows; Jamiel Law (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2024-01-30
2025 John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner

There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia
Publication Date: 2023-03-07
2024 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award
Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
Publication Date: 2023-05-09
2024 Coretta Scott King Author Winner
An American Story by Dare Coulter (Illustrator); Kwame Alexander
Publication Date: 2023-01-03
2024 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Winner
BIG by Vashti Harrison
Publication Date: May 2, 2023
2024 Caldecott Medal Winner & Coretta Scott King Honor Author Title
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston Weatherford; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2023-04-11
2024 Coretta Scott King Honor Author Title
There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds; Jerome Pumphrey (Illustrator); Jarrett Pumphrey (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2023-10-03
2024 Coretta Scott King Honor Author Title

Unspeakable by Carole Boston Weatherford; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2021
2022 Author Winner & 2022 Illustrator Winner
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Publication Date: 2021
2022 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo
Publication Date: 2022
2022 Author Honor
Revolution in Our Time: the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Publication Date: 2021
2022 Author Honor
The People Remember by Ibi Zoboi; Loveis Wise (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2021
2022 Author Honor
Nina by Traci N. Todd; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2021
2022 Illustrator Honor
We Wait for the Sun by Katie McCabe; Raissa Figueroa (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2021
2022 Illustrator Honor
Soul Food Sunday by Winsome Bingham; C. G. Esperanza (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2021
2022 Illustrator Honor

Nikki Grimes, 2022 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement (Author/Illustrator)

Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
Publication Date: 2020
2021 Author Winner
Respect by Carole Boston Weatherford; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2020
2021 Illustration Winner
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Publication Date: 2020
2021 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor
Publication Date: 2020
2021 Author Honor
King of the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
Publication Date: 2020
2021 Author Honor
Lifting As We Climb by Evette Dionne
Publication Date: 2020
2021 Author Honor
Magnificent Homespun Brown by Samara Cole Dayon; Kaylani Junita (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2020
2021 Illustrator Honor
Exquisite by Suzanne Slade; Cozbi Cabrera (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2020
2021 Illustrator Honor
Me and Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2020
2021 Illustrator Honor

New Kid by Jerry Craft
Call Number: GRAPHIC FIC CRA
Publication Date: 2019
2020 Author Winner
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: PICTURE ALE
Publication Date: 2019
2020 Illustrator Winner
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Call Number: REALISTIC FIC WIL
Publication Date: 2019
2020 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: REALISTIC FIC REY
Publication Date: 2019
2020 Author Honor
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
Call Number: YA FIC PET
Publication Date: 2019
2020 Author Honor
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Call Number: FANTASY FIC MBA
2020 Author Honor

A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield
Publication Date: 2018
2019 Author Winner
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Call Number: YA FIC JAC
Publication Date: 2018
2019 John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Call Number: HISTORICAL FIC CLI
Publication Date: 2018
2019 Author Honor
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
Call Number: MYSTERY FIC JOH
Publication Date: 2018
2019 Author Honor
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: REALISTIC FIC MAG
Publication Date: 2018
2019 Author Honor

Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Call Number: YA FIC WAT
2018 Author Award Winner
The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
Call Number: REALISTIC FIC MOO
2018 John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: YA FIC REY
Publication Date: 2018
2018 Author Honor
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: YA FIC THO
Publication Date: 2018
2018 Author Honor