Short List for ACPL Mock Coretta Scott King Book Awards

Below is our short list for our in-person discussion at 1 p.m. on December 5, at the ACPL Main Library, Fort Wayne, IN. We've added titles suggested by blog-readers if the books are currently available in the ACPL collection. If you would like to add a title to this list, please do so in the comment section of this blog entry. Thanks!

For Author Award:
8th Grade Superzero, by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson, by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Clemente!, by Willie Perdomo
The Cruisers, by Walter Dean Myers
Finding Family, by Tonya Bolden
Fort Mose, by Glennette Tilley Turner
Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
Oprah: The Little Speaker, by Carole Boston Weatherford
The Other Half of my Heart, by Sundee Tucker Frazier
Paper Thin, by Shelia M. Goss
Ruth and the Green Book, by Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Saving Maddie, by Varian Johnson
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
sweet, hereafter, by Angela Johnson
What Momma Left Me, by Renee Watson
Yummy : The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, by G. Neri
Zora and Me, by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simmons

For Illustrator Award:
Back of the Bus, by Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson, by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Clemente!, by Willie Perdomo, illustrated by Bryan Collier
Dave the Potter
Oprah: The Little Speaker, by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by London Ladd
A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, by Renee Watson, illustrated by Shadra Strickland
Ruth and the Green Book, by Calvin alexander Ramsey, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story, by Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Don Tate
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Skit-Skat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald, by Roxane Orgill, illustrated by Sean Qualls
Yummy : The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy Duburke

Zora and Me, by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon

Abstract: A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.







Publisher: Candlewick Press, 169 p.