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.
40 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2012
Winner - Biography/Autobiography
My Song: A Memoir
by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
List Price: $30.50Knopf (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother
by Janny Scott
List Price: $30.50Riverhead Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
by Condoleezza Rice
List Price: $30.50Crown (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World
by Dave Zirin and John Wesley Carlos
List Price: $30.50Haymarket Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention
by Manning Marable
List Price: $30.50Knopf (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
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Winner - Children
You Can Be a Friend
by Tony Dungy
List Price: $30.50Little Simon (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George
by Lesa Cline-Ransome
List Price: $30.50Schwartz & Wade (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
by Kadir Nelson, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Juvenile Nonfiction
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Juvenile Nonfiction
- A Top 10 Book in the “Children’s Books from the 21st Century” Category
- A Top 150 Children’s Book
- Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book 2012
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Amistad (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
White Water
by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein, Illustrated by Shadra Strickland
List Price: $30.50Candlewick Press (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Acoustic Rooster And His Barnyard Band
by Kwame Alexander, Illustrated by Tim Bowers
List Price: $30.50Sleeping Bear Press (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy
by Shirley Strawberry
List Price: $30.50One World/Ballantine (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
Defining Moment: Barack Obama: The Historical Journey to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
by Patricia Duncan
List Price: $30.50IJABA Publishing Inc (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
We the Animals
by Justin Torres
List Price: $30.50Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
The Loom
by Shella Gillus
List Price: $30.50Guideposts (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
2Grieve 2Gether: A Journal from the Heart Helping Survivors and Supporters Navigate the Healing Process
by Denise Hall Brown
List Price: $30.50Denise Hall Brown (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Fiction
Say Amen, Again
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
List Price: $30.50Gallery Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
A Silken Thread (Thorndike Press Large Print African American Series)
by Brenda Jackson
List Price: $30.50Thorndike Press (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones
List Price: $30.50Algonquin Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery)
by Nelson George
List Price: $30.50Akashic Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
Boundaries
by Elizabeth Nunez
List Price: $30.50Akashic Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Instructional
The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God
by T. D. Jakes
List Price: $30.50Atria Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
A Year to Wellness and Other Weight Loss Secrets
by Bertice Berry
List Price: $30.50Freeman House Publishing (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community
by Georgia A. Popoff and Quraysh Ali Lansana
List Price: $30.50Teachers and Writers Collaborative (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Living My Dream: An Artistic Approach to Marketing
by Synthia SAINT JAMES
List Price: $30.50CreateSpace (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Too Important To Fail: Saving America’s Boys (Tavis Smiley Reports)
by Tavis Smiley
List Price: $30.50SmileyBooks (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Nonfiction
The Wealth Cure: Putting Money In Its Place
by Hill Harper
List Price: $30.50Knopf (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, And Black Women In America
by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
List Price: $30.50Yale University Press (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race And Civility In Everyday Life
by Elijah Anderson
List Price: $30.50W. W. Norton & Company (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness?: What It Means To Be Black Now
by Touré
List Price: $30.50Atria Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Super Rich: A Guide To Having It All
by Russell Simmons and Chris Morrow
List Price: $30.50Knopf (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Poetry
Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems
by James B. Golden
List Price: $30.50iUniverse (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Last Seen (Felix Pollak Prize In Poetry)
by Jacqueline Jones LaMon
List Price: $30.50University of Wisconsin Press (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Head Off & Split: Poems
by Nikky Finney
List Price: $30.50TriQuarterly Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Intimate Thoughts
by Darrin DeWitt Henson
List Price: $30.50Godzchild Publications (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice
by Haki Madhubuti
List Price: $30.50Third World Press (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running (African-American Biographies (Enslow))
by Jeff Burlingame
List Price: $30.50Enslow Publishing (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Library Binding, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Kick
by Walter Dean Myers
List Price: $30.50HarperTeen (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary
by Jerdine Nolen
List Price: $30.50Paula Wiseman Books (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Camo Girl
by Kekla Magoon
List Price: $30.50Aladdin (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Planet Middle School
by Nikki Grimes
List Price: $30.50Bloomsbury USA Childrens (Oct 11, 2011)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 480 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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