This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Youth/Teens.
Winners and finalists
Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
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2007 | Letters to a Young Brother | Hill Harper | Winner | |
Copper Sun | Sharon M. Draper | Finalist | ||
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Russell Freedman | Finalist | ||
Maya Angelou | Donna Brown Agins | Finalist | ||
Superwoman’s Child | J. L. Woodson | Finalist | ||
2008 | More Than Entertainers: An Inspirational Black Career Guide | Charles B. Schooler, illus. by Gary Young | Winner | |
Body Drama | Nancy Redd | Finalist | ||
Center for Cartoon Studies Presents: Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow | James Sturm, illus. by Rich Tommaso | Finalist | ||
Divine Confidential | Jacquelin Thomas | Finalist | ||
The Shadow Speaker | Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu | Finalist | ||
2009 | Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny | Hill Harper | Winner | |
2010 | Michelle Obama: Meet the First Lady | David Bergen Brophy | Winner | |
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Phillip Hoose | Finalist | ||
Just Another Hero | Sharon Draper | Finalist | ||
Mare’s War | Tanita S. Davis | Finalist | ||
Rock and the River | Kekla Magoon | Finalist | ||
2011 | Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me | Condoleezza Rice | Winner | |
2012 | Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running | Jeff Burlingame | Winner | |
Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary | Jerdine Nolen | Finalist | ||
Camo Girl | Kekla Magoon | Finalist | ||
Planet Middle School | Nikki Grimes | Finalist | ||
Kick | Walter Dean Myers | Finalist | ||
2013 | Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders | Barack Obama and Gregory Reed | Winner | |
The Diary Of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess | Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams | Finalist | ||
The Mighty Miss Malone | Christopher Paul Curtis | Finalist | ||
Fire in the Streets | Kekla Magoon | Finalist | ||
Pinned | Sharon G. Flake | Finalist | ||
2014 | Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers | Tanya Lee Stone | Winner | |
Serafina’s Promise | Ann E. Burg | Finalist | ||
Raising the Bar | Gabrielle Douglas | Finalist | ||
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories For Teens | Romal J. Tune | Finalist | ||
Invasion | Walter Dean Myers | Finalist | ||
2015 | Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner | |
The Red Pencil | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Finalist | ||
Revolution | Deborah Wiles | Finalist | ||
The Freedom Summer Murders | Don Mitchell | Finalist | ||
Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America | Russell Freedman | Finalist | ||
2016 | X: A Novel | Ilyasah Shabazz | Winner | |
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Finalist | ||
Untwine | Edwidge Danticat | Finalist | ||
You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace | Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson | Finalist | ||
Stella by Starlight | Sharon M. Draper | Finalist | ||
2017 | As Brave as You | Jason Reynolds | Winner | |
Riding Chance | Christine Kendall | Finalist | ||
Same But Different: Teen Life on the Autism Express | Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete, and RJ Peete | Finalist | ||
The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend | Sharon Robinson | Finalist | ||
Two Naomis | Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick | Finalist | ||
2018 | Clayton Byrd Goes Underground | Rita Williams-Garcia, with Frank Morrison (illus.) | Winner | |
Allegedly | Tiffany D. Jackson | Finalist | ||
Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | Finalist | ||
Solo | Kwame Alexander, with Mary Rand Hess | Finalist | ||
The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | Finalist | ||
2019 | Harbor Me | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner | |
A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Tahereh Mafi | Finalist | ||
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin | James L. Swanson | Finalist | ||
The Journey of Little Charlie | Christopher Paul Curtis | Finalist | ||
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson, with Tonya Bolden | Finalist | ||
2020 | Around Harvard Square | Christopher John Farley | Winner | |
Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk | Meredith Davis and Rebeka Uwitonze | Finalist | ||
Hot Comb | Ebony Flowers | Finalist | ||
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight | Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones | Finalist | ||
The Forgotten Girl | India Hill Brown | Finalist | ||
2021 | Before the Ever After | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner | |
Black Brother, Black Brother | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Finalist | ||
Dear Justyce | Nic Stone | Finalist | ||
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds | Finalist | ||
This Is Your Time | Ruby Bridges | Finalist | ||
2022 | Ace of Spades | Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé | Winner | |
Happily Ever Afters | Elise Bryant | Finalist | ||
The Cost of Knowing | Brittney Morris | Finalist | ||
When You Look Like Us | Pamela N. Harris | Finalist | ||
Wings of Ebony | J. Elle | Finalist | ||
2023 | Cookies & Milk | Shawn Amos | Winner | |
Maybe an Artist | Liz Montague | Finalist | ||
Inheritance: A Visual Poem | Elizabeth Acevedo | Finalist | ||
Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers' Ed.) | Layla Saad | Finalist | ||
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama | Ashley Woodfolk | Finalist | ||
2024 | Everyone’s Thinking It | Aleema Omotoni | Winner | |
Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans | Isi Hendrix | Finalist | ||
Eb & Flow | Kelly J. Baptist | Finalist | ||
Fatima Tate Takes the Cake | Khadijah VanBrakle | Finalist | ||
Friday I’m in Love | Camryn Garrett | Finalist |
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