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.
39 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2013
Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, And The Real Count Of Monte Cristo
by Tom Reiss
List Price: $27.00Crown (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
by RJ Smith
List Price: $27.00Gotham (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
by Will Allen
List Price: $27.00Gotham (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
by Kofi Annan
List Price: $27.00Penguin Press (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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Winner - Children
What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
List Price: $27.00Candlewick Press (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
In the Land of Milk and Honey
by Joyce Carol Thomas
List Price: $27.00Amistad (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
by Jabari Asim
- A Top 10 Book in the “Children’s Books from the 21st Century” Category
- Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Book 2013
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Harlem’s Little Blackbird
by Renée Watson, Illustrated by Christian Robinson
List Price: $27.00Random House Books for Young Readers (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Children
Indigo Blume And The Garden City
by Kwame Alexander
List Price: $27.00Word of Mouth Books/Capital BookFest (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author
Nikki G: A Portrait of Nikki Giovanni in Her Own Words
by Darryl L. Lacy
List Price: $27.00iUniverse (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
The Sister Accord: 51 Ways to Love Your Sister
by Sonia Jackson Myles
List Price: $27.00Sister Accord (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
Congo: Spirit of Darkness (Volume 1)
by Mayi Ngwala and Allain Ngwala
List Price: $27.00Genet Press (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
Antebellum a Novel
by R Kayeen Thomas
List Price: $27.00Strebor Books (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Debut Author
A Cupboard Full of Coats: A Novel
by Yvvette Edwards
List Price: $27.00Amistad (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Fiction
The Reverend’ss Wife (Reverend Curtis Black #9)
by Kimberla Lawson Roby
- A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books of the 21st Century” Category
- 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2012 Winner African American Literary Awards Show
Grand Central Publishing (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
Silent Cry (Zane Presents)
by Dwayne D. Birch
List Price: $27.00Strebor Books (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
A Wish and a Prayer: A Blessings Novel (Blessings Series)
by Beverly Jenkins
List Price: $27.00William Morrow Paperbacks (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
The Secret She Kept
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The Secret She Kept
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
List Price: $27.00Gallery Books (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Fiction
Destiny’s Divas: A Novel
by Victoria Christopher Murray
List Price: $27.00Touchstone (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Instructional
Health First!: The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide
by Eleanor Hinton Hoytt and Hilary Beard
List Price: $27.00SmileyBooks (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
The No Excuse Guide To Success: No Matter What Your Boss--Or Life--Throws At You
by Jim Smith
List Price: $27.00Career Press (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
12 Ways to Put Money in Your Pocket Every Month Without a Part-Time Job, the Skinny Book That Makes Your Wallet Fat
by Jennifer S. Matthews
List Price: $27.00The Pickett-Fennell Group (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
It’s Complicated (But It Doesn’t Have to Be): A Modern Guide to Finding and Keeping Love
by Paul Carrick Brunson
List Price: $27.00Avery (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Instructional
Formula 50: A 6-Week Workout and Nutrition Plan That Will Transform Your Life
by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
List Price: $27.00Avery (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Nonfiction
The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
by Jeffrey Toobin
List Price: $27.00Doubleday (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Fraternity: In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history.
by Diane Brady
List Price: $27.00Spiegel & Grau (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman’s Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones
by Connie Rice
List Price: $27.00Scribner Book Company (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
by Deborah Davis
List Price: $27.00Atria Books (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The Courage To Hope: How I Stood Up To The Politics Of Fear
by Shirley Sherrod
List Price: $27.00Atria Books (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Poetry
Speak Water
by Truth Thomas
List Price: $27.00Cherry Castle Publishing (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Kindle eBook, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Maybe the Saddest Thing: Poems (National Poetry)
by Marcus Wicker
List Price: $27.00Harper Perennial (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
The Ground: Poems
by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
List Price: $27.00Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Thrall: Poems
by Natasha Trethewey
List Price: $27.00Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Poetry
Hurrah’s Nest (Cedar Tick Natural History Chapbook)
by Arisa White
List Price: $27.00Virtual Artists Collective (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders
by Barack Obama and Gregory Reed
List Price: $27.00Amber Books (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
The Mighty Miss Malone
by Christopher Paul Curtis
List Price: $27.00Wendy Lamb Books (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Pinned
by Sharon G. Flake
List Price: $27.00Scholastic Press (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
Fire in the Streets
by Kekla Magoon
List Price: $27.00Aladdin (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens
The Diary Of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess
by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams, Illustrated by Shadra Strickland
List Price: $27.00Turner (Sep 18, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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