In recognition of February as Black History Month the Library's 6th Floor Juvenile exhibit showcases works by young adult author Walter Dean Myers, who was named 2012-2013 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2012/12-001.html
The Alkek Library offers a number of his books in the Juvenile Collection on 6th Floor; in addition to books by Walter Dean Myers, the exhibit cases are displaying some of the newest books awarded and honored with the Coretta Scott King Award and well-known African-American authors:
Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly
BP223.Z8 L5765 2000
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
BP223.Z8 L5764 1993
Coretta Scott King Award. Honor Book: Author (1994).
At Her Majesty’s Request.
DA565.F67 M94 1999
Now is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
E185 .M96 1991
Coretta Scott King Award winner. Author (1992).
One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album
E185 .M97 1999
I’ve Seen the Promised Land; Martin Luther King
E185.97.K5 M936 2004
Ida B. Wells, Let the Truth Be Told
E185.97.W55 M94 2008
Toussaint L’overtoure: The Fight for Haiti’s Freedom
F1923.T69 M94 1996
Antarctica
G863 .M94 2004
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
GV1132.A44 M94 2001
Hoops
PS3552.U7255 H66 1997
Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse
PS3563.Y48 B76 1993
Harlem
PS3563.Y48 H37 1997
Coretta Scott King Award. Honor Book: Illustrator (1998).
Blues Journey
PS3563.Y48 B58 2003
Here In Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
PS3563.Y48 H47 2004
Bad Boy: A Memoir
PS3563.Y48 Z47 2001
Slam!
PZ7.M992 Sl 1996
Coretta Scott King Award winner. Author (1997).
Monster
PZ7.M992 Mon 1999
Coretta Scott King Award. Honor Book: Author (2000).
The Beast
PZ7.M992 Be 2003
The Dream Bearer
PZ7.M992 Dr 2003
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
PZ7.M992 Pat 2002
Fallen Angels
PZ7.M992 Fal 1988
Coretta Scott King Award winner. Author (1989).
The Glory Field
PZ7.M992 Gl 1994
Somewhere in the Darkness
PZ7.M992 So 1992
Coretta Scott King Award. Honor Book: Author (1993).
Scorpions
PZ7.M992 Sc 1988
The Young Landlords
PZ7.M992 Yo 1989
Coretta Scott King Award winner. Author (1980).
Motown and Didi: A Love Story
PZ7.M992 Mot 1984
Coretta Scott King Award winner. Author (1985).
Mojo and the Russians
PZ7.M992 Mo 1977
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
PZ7.M992 Fas
Coretta Scott King Award. Honor Book: Author (1976).
Sunrise Over Fallujah
PZ7.M992 Su 2008
What They Found
PZ7.M992 Wgr 2007
Harlem Summer
PZ7.M992 Har 2007
Street Love
PZ7.M992 Str 2006
Lockdown
PZ7.M992 Lo 2010
Coretta Scott King Award. Honor Book: Author (2011).
145th Street: Short Stories
PZ7.M992 Aae 2000
The Blues of Flats Brown
PZ7.M992 Bn 2000
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
PZ7.M992 Au 2005
The Dragon Takes a Wife
PZ8.M987 Dr 2000 | On Exhibit
Jazz
PZ8.3.M9954 Jaz 2006 | On Exhibit
Coretta Scott King Award. Honor Book: Illustrator (2007).
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