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

  • The Stuff of Stars


  • Trombone Shorty


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


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


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


  • Firebird


  • Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King


  • An American Story


  • Before the Ever After


  • The Undefeated


  • Coretta Scott King


  • Piecing Me Together


  • Coretta Scott


  • Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre


  • New Kid


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


  • Freewater


  • Nigeria Jones


  • March Book 3


  • Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets


  • Gone Crazy in Alabama


  • Standing in the Need of Prayer