The NAACP Image Awards include literary categories with one award specifically focused on Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens. Here are the nominees, a nice mix of fiction and nonfiction:

Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr’s Assassin by James L. Swanson

Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson

The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden