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The 2000s
*Volumes are located in the Lower Level of Willis Library
2006
Author Award Winner
Julius Lester. Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue. Published by Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children.
Illustrator Award Winner
Bryan Collier. Rosa by Nikki Giovanni. Published by Henry Holt and Company.
New Talent Award-Author
Jaime Adoff. Jimi & Me. Published by Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children.
Juvenile
Author Honor Books
Tonya Bolden. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl.
published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers.
Juvenile
Nikki Grimes. Dark Sons. Published by Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children.
Juvenile JFic G862d
Marilyn Nelson. A Wreath for Emmett Till. Illustrated byPhilippe Lardy. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Illustrator Honor Books
R. Gregory Christie. Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. Published by Lee and Low Books.
2005
Author Award Winner
Morrison, Toni. Remember: The Journey to School Integration. Houghton and Mifflin Company, 2004.
Willis Library LC214.2 .M67 2004
Honor Books
Moses, Shelia P. The Legend of Buddy Bush. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Juvenile
Flake, Sharon G. Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion for Children, 2004.
Juvenile JFic F576w
Nelson, Marilyn. Fortune's Bones : The Manumission Requiem. Front Street, 2004.
Juvenile
Illustrator Award Winner
Kadir, Nelson A., illustrator. Ellington Was Not a Street. By Ntozake Shange, Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Juvenile
Honor Books
Pinkney, Jerry, illustrator. God Bless the Child. By Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr., Amistad, 2004.
Juvenile
Dillon, Leo and Diane. The People Could Fly: The Picture Book. By Virginia Hamilton, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
2004
Author Award Winner
Johnson, Angela. The First Part Last. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003.
Juvenile JFic J64fi
Honor Books
McKissack, Patricia and Frederick L. Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States. Scholastic, 2003.
Juvenile J973.7 M158d
Woodson, Jacqueline. Locomotion. G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group, 2003.
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Draper, Sharon M. The Battle of Jericho. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003.
Juvenile JFic D766b
Illustrator Award Winner
Bryan, Ashley. Beautiful Blackbird. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003.
Juvenile J398.2 B915b
Honor Books
Bootman, Colin. Almost to Freedom. Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group, 2003.
Nelson, Kadir. Thunder Rose. Silver Whistle/Harcourt, 2003.
Juvenile
2003
Author Award Winner
Grimes, Nikki. Bronx Masquerade. Dial Books for Young Readers, 2001.
Juvenile JFic G862b
Honor Books
Woods, Brenda. The Red Rose Box. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
Juvenile JFic W894r
Grimes, Nikki. Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman. Scholastic, 2002.
Juvenile J629.13 G862t
Illustrator Award Winner
Lewis, E.B. Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman. Scholastic, 2002.
Juvenile J629.13 G862t
Honor Books
Dillon, Leo and Diane. Rap A Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles--Think of That. Blue Sky Press, Scholastic, 2002.
Juvenile JE D579r
Collier, Bryan. Visiting Langston. Henry Holt, 2002.
Juvenile J811 L285p
2002
Author Award Winner
Taylor, Mildred D. The Land. Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam, 2001.
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Honor Books
Flake, Sharon G. Money-Hungry. Sun/Hyperion, 2001.
Juvenile JFic F576m
Nelson, Marilyn. Carver: a Life in Poems. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2001.
Juvenile J811 N428c
Illustrator Award Winner
Goin' Someplace Special. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, text by Doreen Rappoport, Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum, 2001.
Juvenile JE M158g
Honor book
Martin's Big Words. Illustrated by Bryan Collier, text by Doreen Rappoport. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books, 2001.
Juvenile J323 R221m
2001
Author Award Winner
Woodson, Jacqueline. Miracle's Boys. G.P. Putnam's Sons
Juvneile JFic W898m
Honor Books
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters. ill. by Stephen Alcorn. Gulliver Books, Harcourt
Juvenile
Illustrator Award Winner
Collier, Bryan. Uptown. Henry Holt
Juvenile
Honor Books
Collier, Bryan. Freedom River. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion
Juvenile J973.7 R221f
Rockwell, Anne. Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Random House
Juvenile
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys. Illustrated by E.B. Lewis. Simon & Schuster
Juvenile
2000
Author Award Winner
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. Delacorte.
Juvenile JFic C978b
Honor Books
English, Karen. Francie. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Juvenile
McKissack, Patricia C. and Frederick L. Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers. Scholastic Press.
Juveniel J639.2 M158b
Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. HarperCollins.
Juvenile JFic M995mon
Illustrator Award Winner
Siegelson, Kim L. In the Time of the Drums. Illustrated by Brian Pinkney. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children.
Juvenile JFic S5715i
Honor Books
Mollel, Tololwa M. My Rows and Piles of Coins. Illustrated by E. B. Lewis. Clarion Books.
Juvenile
Myers, Christopher. Black Cat. Scholastic .
Juvneile JE M9948b