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Reading Level Guide to CSK Award Books
| Author | Title | Reading/Interest Levels |
|---|---|---|
| Adoff, Arnold | All the Colors of the Race | |
| Bryan, Ashley | Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales | |
| What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals | 4.8/3-6 /k-3 |
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| Christie, Gregorie | The Palm of My Heart | 2/k-3 |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | The Watson's Go to Birmingham | 5/5-8 |
| Curtis, Gavin | The Bat Boy and his Violin | 5.2/k-3 |
| Draper, Sharon | Forged by Fire | 6.8/YA |
| Feelings, Tom | The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo | /YA |
| Grimes, Nikki | Jazmin's Notebook | /YA |
| Greenfield, Eloise and Lessie Jones Little | Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir | |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Her Stories | 4.3/3-6 |
| The People Could Fly | 4.3/3-6 |
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| Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | 5.3/5-8 |
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| Hansen, Joyce and Gary McGowan | The Story of New York's African Burial Ground | 5-8/7.4 |
| Igus, Toyomi | i see the rhythm | 6.8/3-6 |
| Johnson, Angela | Heaven | /YA |
| The Other Side: Shorter Poems | 3.5/5-8 |
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| Toning the Sweep | 5.4/5-8 |
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| McKissack, Patricia C. | The Dark Thirty: Tales of the Supernatural | 5-8/6.9 |
| McKissack, Frederick L. & Patricia C. | Rebels Against Slavery | 7.9/5-8 |
| A Long Hard Journey, Story of the Pullman Porter | /5-8 |
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| Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? | /5-8 |
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| Mathis, Sharon Bell | Ray Charles | |
| Mitchell, Margaree King | Uncle Jed's Barbershop | 4.5/k-3 |
2.8/k-3 |
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| Steptoe, John | All the Colors of the Race | 5.1/4-6 |
| Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale | 5.2/k-3 |
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| Thomas, Joyce Carol | Brown Honey and Broomwheat Tea | 4.5/k-3 |
| Walter, Mildred Pitts | Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World | 5.2/3-6 |
| Williams-Garcia, Rita | Like Sisters on the Homefront | /YA |
Written for the Coretta Scott King Committee by GraceAnne A. DeCandido, February 2000.