NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees
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The NAACP Image Awards nominates five books in nine categories for Outstanding Literature. You may print a list of all the award-winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.
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Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Debut Author Biography/Autobiography Children Youth/Teens Instructional Graphic Novel
Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Debut Author Biography/Autobiography Children Youth/Teens Instructional Graphic Novel
38 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2014
Winner – Biography/Autobiography
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780807050477Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780062005595Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Buck: A Memoir
by MK Asante
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780812993417Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Mom & Me & Mom
by Maya Angelou
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781400066117Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Biography/Autobiography
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781592407491Publisher: Beacon Press
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Winner – Children
Nelson Mandela
by Kadir Nelson, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780061783746Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Children
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream For Me
by Daniel Beaty, Illustrated by Bryan Collier
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780316209175Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Children
I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl!
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780615785516Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Children
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780316070133Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Children
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
by Jonah Winter
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780375868443Publisher: Beacon Press
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Winner – Debut Author
Nine Years Under
by Sheri Booker
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781592407620Publisher: Beacon Press
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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: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780062123763Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Debut Author
On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story
by Hannah Weyer
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780385537322Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Debut Author
The Returned
by Jason Mott
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780778315339Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Debut Author
Ghana Must Go
by Taiye Selasi
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781594204494Publisher: Beacon Press
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Winner – Fiction
Anybody’s Daughter
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780989293501Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Fiction
Little Green
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780385535984Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Fiction
Who Asked You?
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780670785698Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Fiction
Never Say Never
by Victoria Christopher Murray
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781451695779Publisher: Beacon Press
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Winner – Instructional
The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781583334737Publisher: Beacon Press
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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: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780062226242Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Instructional
The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780988479708Publisher: Beacon Press
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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: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781613744055Publisher: Beacon Press
Read Our Review of Do I Look Like an ATM?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children
Nominee – Instructional
Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education
by Donna Ford
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781618210494Publisher: Beacon Press
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Winner – Nonfiction
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781439909850Publisher: Beacon Press
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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: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780062015884Publisher: Beacon Press
Read Our Review of High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
Nominee – Nonfiction
Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations
by Retha Powers
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780316010177Publisher: Beacon Press
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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: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781592407248Publisher: Beacon Press
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Winner – Poetry
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780820345413Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Poetry
The Collected Poems of Ai
by Ai Ogawa
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780393074901Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Poetry
The Cineaste: Poems
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780393239157Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Poetry
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780688156978Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Poetry
Hum (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
by Jamaal May
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781938584022Publisher: Beacon Press
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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)
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780763651176Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Youth/Teens
Raising The Bar
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780310740704Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Youth/Teens
Serafina’s Promise
by Ann E. Burg
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780545535649Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Youth/Teens
Invasion
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780545384285Publisher: Beacon Press
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Nominee – Youth/Teens
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories For Teens
List Price: $27.95
Beacon Press (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9780817017330Publisher: Beacon Press
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