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Coretta Scott King Award for Kids

Here's a go-to booklist for completing 2023 Summer Spark activities for your bonus milestone!

Saint Paul Public Library

25 items

  • Standing in the Need of Prayer

    a Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

    Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
    BookNew York : Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2022] — BL625.2.W43 S83 2022 (JUV)
  • BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — FICTION (JUV) Luqman-Dawson, Amina
  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T

    Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

    Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
    BookNew York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020] — ML3930.F68 W43 2020 (BIOG) (JUV)
  • BookBoston : Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] — PZ8.3 .A44 Un 2019 (JUV)
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — GRAPHIC NOVEL (PAPER) (JUV) Craft, Jerry
  • BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018. — QB991.B54 B38 2018 (JUV) (EASY NON-FICTION)
  • Out of Wonder

    Poems Celebrating Poets

    Alexander, Kwame
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017. — PZ8.3 .A46 Ou 2017 (JUV)
  • Radiant Child

    the Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Steptoe, Javaka, 1971-
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, [2016]. — N6537.B233 S84 2014 (BIOG) (JUV)
  • BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2015. — ML3930.A53 A3 2015 (BIOG) (JUV)
  • Firebird

    Ballerina Misty Copeland Shows a Young Girl How to Dance Like the Firebird

    Copeland, Misty
    BookNew York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014] — PICTURE BOOK (JUV) Copeland, Misty
  • Knock Knock

    My Dad's Dream for Me

    Beaty, Daniel
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — PICTURE BOOK (JUV) Beaty, Daniel
  • Hand in Hand

    Ten Black Men Who Changed America

    Pinkney, Andrea Davis
    BookNew York : Disney/Jump at the Sun, c2012. — E185.86 .P56 2012 (JUV)
  • Heart and Soul

    the Story of America and African Americans

    Nelson, Kadir
    BookNew York : Balzer + Bray, c2011. — E185 .N427 2011 (JUV)
  • BookNew York : Little, Brown, 2010. — NK4210.D247 H55 2010 (BIOG) (JUV)