NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Youth/Teens.

Winners and finalists +Award winners and finalists Year Book Author Result 2007Letters to a Young Brother Winner Copper Sun FinalistFreedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott FinalistMaya Angelou FinalistSuperwoman’s Child Finalist2008More Than Entertainers: An Inspirational Black Career Guide , by Gary YoungWinner Body Drama FinalistCenter for Cartoon Studies Presents: Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow , by Rich TommasoFinalistDivine Confidential Finalist Finalist 2009Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your DestinyWinner2010 Michelle Obama: Meet the First Lady Winner Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Finalist Just Another Hero Finalist Mare’s War Finalist Rock and the River Finalist2011 Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me Winner 2012 Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running Winner Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary Finalist Camo Girl Finalist Planet Middle School Finalist Kick Finalist2013 Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders and Gregory ReedWinner and Caroline Randall WilliamsFinalist Finalist Fire in the Streets Finalist Pinned Finalist2014 Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers Winner Serafina’s Promise Finalist Raising the Bar Finalist God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories For Teens Finalist Invasion Finalist2015 Brown Girl Dreaming Winner Finalist Revolution Finalist Finalist Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America Finalist2016 X: A Novel Winner Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound Finalist Untwine Finalist You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace and Sylvia RichardsonFinalist Stella by Starlight Finalist2017 As Brave as You Winner Riding Chance Finalist Same But Different: Teen Life on the Autism Express , Ryan Elizabeth Peete, and RJ PeeteFinalist Finalist Two Naomis and Audrey VernickFinalist2018 Clayton Byrd Goes Underground , with Frank Morrison ()Winner Allegedly Finalist Long Way Down Finalist Solo , with Mary Rand Hess Finalist Finalist2019 Harbor Me Winner Finalist Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin Finalist Finalist We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding our Racial Divide , with Tonya BoldenFinalist2020 Around Harvard Square Winner Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk and Rebeka UwitonzeFinalist Hot Comb Finalist I’m Not Dying with You Tonight and Kimberly JonesFinalist Finalist2021 Before the Ever After Winner Black Brother, Black Brother Finalist Dear Justyce Finalist Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Finalist This Is Your Time Finalist2022 Ace of Spades Winner Happily Ever Afters Finalist Finalist When You Look Like Us Finalist Wings of Ebony Finalist2023Cookies & MilkWinnerMaybe an ArtistFinalistInheritance: A Visual PoemFinalistMe and White Supremacy (Young Readers' Ed.)FinalistOpening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle ObamaFinalist2024Everyone’s Thinking ItWinnerAdia Kelbara and the Circle of ShamansFinalistEb & FlowFatima Tate Takes the CakeFriday I’m in Love2025 Brushed Between Cultures: A YA Coming of Age Novel Set in Brooklyn, New YorkWinnerAmerican Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky and Elizabeth Wein FinalistBarracoon Adapted for Young Readers The Story of the Last Black Cargo , Ibram X. Kendi, Jazzmen Lee-JohnsonBlack Star: The Door of No Return Clutch Time: A Shot Clock NovelCaron Butler and Justin A. Reynolds2026Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi Winner(S)KinFinalistThe Scammer The Story of My Anger Through Our Teeth

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