Staff Picks

Works About Coretta Scott King


Kelly Starling Lyons
(Juvenile Nonfiction - J 921 King Lyo)

This brief chapter book biography of Coretta Scott King teaches readers that while Coretta Scott King may be mostly known as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., she was an important civil rights activist and leader in her own right. Part of the She Persisted biography series. Recommended for ages 8–11.


Coretta Scott King Award Winners

  • March Book 3


  • Before the Ever After


  • Piecing Me Together


  • Trombone Shorty


  • Freewater


  • A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919


  • Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets


  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul


  • Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat


  • An American Story


  • New Kid


  • Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre


  • Coretta Scott


  • The Stuff of Stars


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • Coretta Scott King


  • Firebird


  • Nigeria Jones


  • Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King


  • Standing in the Need of Prayer


  • The Undefeated


  • Gone Crazy in Alabama