NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees
The NAACP Image Awards nominates five books in nine categories for Outstanding Literature:
Biography/Autobiography,
Children,
Debut Author,
Fiction,
Graphic Novel,
Instructional,
Nonfiction,
Poetry
, and
Youth/Teens.
You may print a list of all the award-winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.
38 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2014
Winner - Biography/Autobiography
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
List Price: $27.95Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker
by Stanley Crouch
List Price: $27.95Harper (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Buck: A Memoir
by MK Asante
List Price: $27.95Spiegel & Grau (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Mom & Me & Mom
by Maya Angelou
List Price: $27.95Knopf (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
by Terry Teachout
List Price: $27.95Avery (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Winner - Children
Nelson Mandela
by Kadir Nelson, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
List Price: $27.95Katherine Tegen Books (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Children
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream For Me
by Daniel Beaty, Illustrated by Bryan Collier
List Price: $27.95Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Children
I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl!
by Betty K. Bynum
List Price: $27.95Dreamtitle Publishing (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Children
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
List Price: $27.95Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Children
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
by Jonah Winter
List Price: $27.95Schwartz & Wade (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Winner - Debut Author
Nine Years Under
by Sheri Booker
List Price: $27.95Knopf (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Debut Author
Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair!
by Nikki Walton with Ernessa T. Carter
List Price: $27.95Amistad (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Debut Author
On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story
by Hannah Weyer
List Price: $27.95Nan A. Talese (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Debut Author
The Returned
by Jason Mott
List Price: $27.95Amistad (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Debut Author
Ghana Must Go
by Taiye Selasi
List Price: $27.95Penguin Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Winner - Fiction
Anybody’s Daughter
by Pamela Samuels Young
- 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2014 Winner African American Literary Awards Show
Goldman House Publishing (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Fiction
Little Green
by Walter Mosley
List Price: $27.95Knopf (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Fiction
Who Asked You?
by Terry McMillan
List Price: $27.95Knopf (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Fiction
Never Say Never
by Victoria Christopher Murray
List Price: $27.95Touchstone (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Winner - Instructional
The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life
by Robin Quivers
List Price: $27.95Avery (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Instructional
Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don’t Have It)
by Sherri Shepherd and Billie Fitzpatrick
List Price: $27.95It Books (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Instructional
The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs
by Kevin D. Johnson
List Price: $27.95Johnson Media Inc (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Instructional
Do I Look Like an ATM?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children
by Sabrina Lamb
List Price: $27.95Chicago Review Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Instructional
Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education
by Donna Ford
List Price: $27.95Prufrock Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Winner - Nonfiction
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
List Price: $27.95Temple University Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Nonfiction
High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
by Carl Hart
List Price: $27.95Amistad (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations
by Retha Powers
List Price: $27.95Grand Central Publishing (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
by Hill Harper
List Price: $27.95Knopf (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Winner - Poetry
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
by Frank X. Walker
List Price: $27.95University of Georgia Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Poetry
The Collected Poems of Ai
by Ai Ogawa
List Price: $27.95W. W. Norton & Company (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Poetry
The Cineaste: Poems
by A. Van Jordan
List Price: $27.95W. W. Norton & Company (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Poetry
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
by Nikki Giovanni
List Price: $27.95William Morrow (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Poetry
Hum (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
by Jamaal May
List Price: $27.95Alice James Books (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers)
by Tanya Lee Stone
List Price: $27.95Candlewick Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Raising The Bar
by Gabrielle Douglas
List Price: $27.95Amistad (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Serafina’s Promise
by Ann E. Burg
List Price: $27.95Scholastic Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Invasion
by Walter Dean Myers
List Price: $27.95Scholastic Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories For Teens
by Romal J. Tune
List Price: $27.95Judson Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 360 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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