The award is established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration, from 1999 to the present.
2023
Choosing Brave: Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till, and the Voice That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
Call Number: x 92 T5737Jo
2016
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Call Number: x 811 W362-4
Grades 3-5.
Free-verse poems and stunning illustrations combine to tell the story of a woman who came from humble beginnings and endured much – ultimately emerging as a national hero and a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
2014
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
Call Number: x 92 K82Hi
Grades 1 - 4: From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.
