# 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 |
| 2007 | Letters to a Young Brother | Hill Harper | Winner |
| 2007 | Copper Sun | Sharon M. Draper | Finalist |
| 2007 | Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Russell Freedman | Finalist |
| 2007 | Maya Angelou | Donna Brown Agins | Finalist |
| 2007 | Superwoman’s Child | J. L. Woodson | Finalist |
| 2008 | More Than Entertainers: An Inspirational Black Career Guide | Charles B. Schooler, illus. by Gary Young | Winner |
| 2008 | Body Drama | Nancy Redd | Finalist |
| 2008 | Center for Cartoon Studies Presents: Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow | James Sturm, illus. by Rich Tommaso | Finalist |
| 2008 | Divine Confidential | Jacquelin Thomas | Finalist |
| 2008 | 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 |
| 2010 | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Phillip Hoose | Finalist |
| 2010 | Just Another Hero | Sharon Draper | Finalist |
| 2010 | Mare’s War | Tanita S. Davis | Finalist |
| 2010 | 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 |
| 2012 | Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary | Jerdine Nolen | Finalist |
| 2012 | Camo Girl | Kekla Magoon | Finalist |
| 2012 | Planet Middle School | Nikki Grimes | Finalist |
| 2012 | Kick | Walter Dean Myers | Finalist |
| 2013 | Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders | Barack Obama and Gregory Reed | Winner |
| 2013 | The Diary Of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess | Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams | Finalist |
| 2013 | The Mighty Miss Malone | Christopher Paul Curtis | Finalist |
| 2013 | Fire in the Streets | Kekla Magoon | Finalist |
| 2013 | 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 |
| 2014 | Serafina’s Promise | Ann E. Burg | Finalist |
| 2014 | Raising the Bar | Gabrielle Douglas | Finalist |
| 2014 | God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories For Teens | Romal J. Tune | Finalist |
| 2014 | Invasion | Walter Dean Myers | Finalist |
| 2015 | Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner |
| 2015 | The Red Pencil | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Finalist |
| 2015 | Revolution | Deborah Wiles | Finalist |
| 2015 | The Freedom Summer Murders | Don Mitchell | Finalist |
| 2015 | Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America | Russell Freedman | Finalist |
| 2016 | X: A Novel | Ilyasah Shabazz | Winner |
| 2016 | Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Finalist |
| 2016 | Untwine | Edwidge Danticat | Finalist |
| 2016 | You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace | Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson | Finalist |
| 2016 | Stella by Starlight | Sharon M. Draper | Finalist |
| 2017 | As Brave as You | Jason Reynolds | Winner |
| 2017 | Riding Chance | Christine Kendall | Finalist |
| 2017 | Same But Different: Teen Life on the Autism Express | Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete, and RJ Peete | Finalist |
| 2017 | The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend | Sharon Robinson | Finalist |
| 2017 | Two Naomis | Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick | Finalist |
| 2018 | Clayton Byrd Goes Underground | Rita Williams-Garcia, with Frank Morrison (illus.) | Winner |
| 2018 | Allegedly | Tiffany D. Jackson | Finalist |
| 2018 | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | Finalist |
| 2018 | Solo | Kwame Alexander, with Mary Rand Hess | Finalist |
| 2018 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | Finalist |
| 2019 | Harbor Me | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner |
| 2019 | A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Tahereh Mafi | Finalist |
| 2019 | Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin | James L. Swanson | Finalist |
| 2019 | The Journey of Little Charlie | Christopher Paul Curtis | Finalist |
| 2019 | We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson, with Tonya Bolden | Finalist |
| 2020 | Around Harvard Square | Christopher John Farley | Winner |
| 2020 | Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk | Meredith Davis and Rebeka Uwitonze | Finalist |
| 2020 | Hot Comb | Ebony Flowers | Finalist |
| 2020 | I’m Not Dying with You Tonight | Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones | Finalist |
| 2020 | The Forgotten Girl | India Hill Brown | Finalist |
| 2021 | Before the Ever After | Jacqueline Woodson | Winner |
| 2021 | Black Brother, Black Brother | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Finalist |
| 2021 | Dear Justyce | Nic Stone | Finalist |
| 2021 | Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds | Finalist |
| 2021 | This Is Your Time | Ruby Bridges | Finalist |
| 2022 | Ace of Spades | Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé | Winner |
| 2022 | Happily Ever Afters | Elise Bryant | Finalist |
| 2022 | The Cost of Knowing | Brittney Morris | Finalist |
| 2022 | When You Look Like Us | Pamela N. Harris | Finalist |
| 2022 | Wings of Ebony | J. Elle | Finalist |
| 2023 | Cookies & Milk | Shawn Amos | Winner |
| 2023 | Maybe an Artist | Liz Montague | Finalist |
| 2023 | Inheritance: A Visual Poem | Elizabeth Acevedo | Finalist |
| 2023 | Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers' Ed.) | Layla Saad | Finalist |
| 2023 | Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama | Ashley Woodfolk | Finalist |
| 2024 | Everyone’s Thinking It | Aleema Omotoni | Winner |
| 2024 | Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans | Isi Hendrix | Finalist |
| 2024 | Eb & Flow | Kelly J. Baptist | Finalist |
| 2024 | Fatima Tate Takes the Cake | Khadijah VanBrakle | Finalist |
| 2024 | Friday I’m in Love | Camryn Garrett | Finalist |