The Coretta Scott King Award honors African-American authors and illustrators who create outstanding books for children and young adults.

2010 Winner:

BAD NEWS FOR OUTLAWS: THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF BASS REEVES, DEPUTY U.S. MARSHALL
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
For three decades, Bass was the most feared and respected lawman in the territories, where he made more than 3,000 arrests.

2010 Honor Book:

MARE'S WAR
by Tanita S. Davis
Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. But somewhere on the road, Octavia and Tali discover there’s more to Mare than what you see. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less-than-perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American battalion of the Women’s Army Corps during World War II.

2010 Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement:

Walter Dean Myers

For four decades, his characters have wrestled with life changing decisions. While his stories often incorporate humor, music, sports and adventure, they also address challenging themes such as love, with Amiri & Odette: A Love Story; incarceration, with Monster; and war, with Fallen Angels and Sunrise Over Fallujah.

2010 Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent:

THE ROCK AND THE RIVER
by Kekla Magoon
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.

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