This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Youth/Teens.
Winners and finalists
editYear | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
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2007 | Letters to a Young Brother | Hill Harper | Winner | [1] |
Copper Sun | Sharon M. Draper | Finalist | [1][2] | |
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Russell Freedman | Finalist | [1][2] | |
Maya Angelou | Donna Brown Agins | Finalist | [1][2] | |
Superwoman’s Child | J. L. Woodson | Finalist | [1][2] | |
2008 | More Than Entertainers: An Inspirational Black Career Guide | Charles B. Schooler, illus. by Gary Young | Winner | [3] |
Body Drama | Nancy Redd | Finalist | [4] | |
Center for Cartoon Studies Presents: Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow | James Sturm, illus. by Rich Tommaso | Finalist | [4] | |
Divine Confidential | Jacquelin Thomas | Finalist | [4] | |
The Shadow Speaker | Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu | Finalist | [4] | |
2009 | Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny | Hill Harper | Winner | [5][6] |
2010 | Michelle Obama: Meet the First Lady | David Bergen Brophy | Winner | [7] |
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Phillip Hoose | Finalist | [8] | |
Just Another Hero | Sharon Draper | Finalist | [8] | |
Mare’s War | Tanita S. Davis | Finalist | [8] | |
Rock and the River | Kekla Magoon | Finalist | [8] | |
2011 | Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me | Condoleezza Rice | Winner | [9] |
2012 | Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running | Jeff Burlingame | Winner | [10] |
Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary | Jerdine Nolen | Finalist | [10] | |
Camo Girl | Kekla Magoon | Finalist | [10] | |
Planet Middle School | Nikki Grimes | Finalist | [10] | |
Kick | Walter Dean Myers | Finalist | [10] | |
2013 | Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders | Barack Obama and Gregory Reed | Winner | [11] |
The Diary Of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess | Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams | Finalist | [11] | |
The Mighty Miss Malone | Christopher Paul Curtis | Finalist | [11] | |
Fire in the Streets | Kekla Magoon | Finalist | [11] | |
Pinned | Sharon G. Flake | Finalist | [11] | |
2014 | Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers | Tanya Lee Stone | Winner | [12] |
Serafina’s Promise | Ann E. Burg | Finalist | [12] | |
Raising the Bar | Gabrielle Douglas | Finalist | [12] | |
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories For Teens | Romal J. Tune | Finalist | [12] | |
Invasion | Walter Dean Myers | Finalist | [12] | |
2015 | Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner | [13] |
The Red Pencil | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Finalist | [13] | |
Revolution | Deborah Wiles | Finalist | [13] | |
The Freedom Summer Murders | Don Mitchell | Finalist | [13] | |
Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America | Russell Freedman | Finalist | [13] | |
2016 | X: A Novel | Ilyasah Shabazz | Winner | [14] |
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Finalist | [14] | |
Untwine | Edwidge Danticat | Finalist | [14] | |
You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace | Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson | Finalist | [14] | |
Stella by Starlight | Sharon M. Draper | Finalist | [14] | |
2017 | As Brave as You | Jason Reynolds | Winner | [15] |
Riding Chance | Christine Kendall | Finalist | [15] | |
Same But Different: Teen Life on the Autism Express | Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete, and RJ Peete | Finalist | [15] | |
The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend | Sharon Robinson | Finalist | [15] | |
Two Naomis | Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick | Finalist | [15] | |
2018 | Clayton Byrd Goes Underground | Rita Williams-Garcia, with Frank Morrison (illus.) | Winner | [16] |
Allegedly | Tiffany D. Jackson | Finalist | [16] | |
Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | Finalist | [16] | |
Solo | Kwame Alexander, with Mary Rand Hess | Finalist | [16] | |
The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | Finalist | [16] | |
2019 | Harbor Me | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner | [17] |
A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Tahereh Mafi | Finalist | [17] | |
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin | James L. Swanson | Finalist | [17] | |
The Journey of Little Charlie | Christopher Paul Curtis | Finalist | [17] | |
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson, with Tonya Bolden | Finalist | [17] | |
2020 | Around Harvard Square | Christopher John Farley | Winner | [18] |
Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk | Meredith Davis and Rebeka Uwitonze | Finalist | [18] | |
Hot Comb | Ebony Flowers | Finalist | [18] | |
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight | Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones | Finalist | [18] | |
The Forgotten Girl | India Hill Brown | Finalist | [18] | |
2021 | Before the Ever After | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner | [19] |
Black Brother, Black Brother | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Finalist | [20] | |
Dear Justyce | Nic Stone | Finalist | [20] | |
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds | Finalist | [20] | |
This Is Your Time | Ruby Bridges | Finalist | [20] | |
2022 | Ace of Spades | Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé | Winner | [21][22] |
Happily Ever Afters | Elise Bryant | Finalist | [22][23] | |
The Cost of Knowing | Brittney Morris | Finalist | [22][23] | |
When You Look Like Us | Pamela N. Harris | Finalist | [22][23] | |
Wings of Ebony | J. Elle | Finalist | [22][23] | |
2023 | Cookies & Milk | Shawn Amos | Winner | [24] |
Maybe an Artist | Liz Montague | Finalist | [25] | |
Inheritance: A Visual Poem | Elizabeth Acevedo | Finalist | [25] | |
Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers' Ed.) | Layla Saad | Finalist | [25] | |
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama | Ashley Woodfolk | Finalist | [25] | |
2024 | Everyone’s Thinking It | Aleema Omotoni | Winner | [26][27] |
Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans | Isi Hendrix | Finalist | [26] | |
Eb & Flow | Kelly J. Baptist | Finalist | [26] | |
Fatima Tate Takes the Cake | Khadijah VanBrakle | Finalist | [26] | |
Friday I’m in Love | Camryn Garrett | Finalist | [26] |
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