Mansfield/Richland County Public Library

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The Legend of Buddy Bush By Shelia P. Moses
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives By Sharon G. Flake
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Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem By Marilyn Nelson

2004 Author Award Winner

First Part Last
by Angela Johnson (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)

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Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States
by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
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Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
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The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper
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2003 Author Award Winner

Bronx Masquerade
by Nikki Grimes (Check Catalog)

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The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
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Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
by Nikki Grimes

2002 Author Award Winner

The Land
by Mildred Taylor (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)

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Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
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Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
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2001 Author Award Winner

Miracle's Boys
by Jacqueline Woodson (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)

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Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis (Check Catalog)

2000 Author Award Winner

Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis

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Francie by Karen English
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of AfricanAmerican Whalers
by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
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Monster by Walter Dean Myers
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1999 Author Award Winner

Heaven
by Angela Johnson (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)

Honor Books
Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan
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The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson
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1998 Author Award Winner

Forged by Fire
by Sharon M. Draper (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)

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Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of Civil Rights Movement
by James Haskins
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen
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1997 Author Award Winner

Slam
by Walter Dean Myers (Check Catalog)

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Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack

1996 Author Award Winner

Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton (Check Catalog)

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The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams Garcia
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From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson

1995 Author Award Winner

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Check Catalog)

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The Captive by Joyce Hansen
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I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
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Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League
by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack

1994 Author Award Winner

Toning the Sweep
by Angela Johnson (Check Catalog)

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Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers

1993 Author Award Winner

Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
by Patricia A. McKissack (Check Catalog)

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Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? By Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Check Catalog)
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
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1992 Author Award Winner

Now Is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers (Check Catalog)

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Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield
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1991 Author Award Winner

The Road to Memphis
by Mildred D. Taylor (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)

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Black Dance in America by James Haskins
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When I Am Old With You by Angela Johnson
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1990 Author Award Winner

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Check Catalog)

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Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield
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The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton
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Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson (Check Catalog)

1989 Author Award Winner

Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)

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A Thief in the Village and Other Stories
by James Berry
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
by Virginia Hamilton
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1988 Author Award Winner

The Friendship
by Mildred L. Taylor (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)

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An Enchanted Hair Tale by Alexis De Veaux
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
by Julius Lester
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1987 Author Award Winner

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
by Mildred Pitts Walter (Check Catalog)

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Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales
by Ashley Bryan
Which Way Freedom by Joyce Hansen
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1986 Author Award Winner

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
by Virginia Hamilton

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Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton
Trouble's Child by Mildred Pitts Walter

1985 Author Award Winner

Motown and Didi
by Walter Dean Myers

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Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd
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A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton

1984 Author Award Winner

Everett Anderson's Goodbye
by Lucille Clifton

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Special Citation
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. compiled by Coretta Scott King
The Magical Adventure of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton
Lena Horne by James Haskins
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Bright Shadow by Joyce Carol Thomas
Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter

1983 Author Award Winner

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
by Virginia Hamilton

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This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester
Black Child by Peter Mugabane

1982 Author Award Winner

Let the Circle Be Unbroken
by Mildred D. Taylor (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)

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Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
Lou in the Limelight by Kristin Hunter
Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane

1981 Author Award Winner

This Life
by Sidney Poitier (Check Catalog)

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Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexia De Veaux
Movin' Up by Berry Gordy
Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins
Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland

1979 Author Award Winner

Escape to Freedom
by Ossie Davis

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Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson
I Have a Sister, My Sister Is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson
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Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner

1978 Author Award Winner

Africa Dream
by Eloise Greenfield

Honor Books
The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner
Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass
Mary McCleod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield
Barbara Jordan by James Haskins
Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson
Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart