| Year
|
Genre
|
Author
|
Title
|
Ref.
|
| 2014
|
Fiction
|
Paul Langan
|
Survivor
|
[3]
|
| Sharon E McKay and Daniel Lafance (Illus.)
|
War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
|
| Terra Elan McVoy
|
Criminal
|
| Meg Medina
|
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
|
| Susan Nussbaum
|
Good Kings, Bad Kings
|
| Jeff Rivera
|
No Matter What
|
| Darlene Ryan
|
Pieces of Me
|
| Pamela Samuels Young
|
Anybody’s Daughter
|
| Nonfiction
|
M. K. Asante
|
Buck: A Memoir
|
| Marilyn Denise Jones
|
From Crack to College and Vice Versa
|
| 2015
|
Fiction
|
Lynne Ewing
|
The Lure
|
[4]
|
| Ashley Little
|
Anatomy of a Girl Gang
|
| Kekla Magoon
|
How It Went Down
|
| Jason Reynolds
|
When I Was the Greatest
|
| P. D. Workman
|
Ruby: Between the Cracks (Volume 1)
|
| Nonfiction
|
Pacc Butler
|
From God’s Monster to the Devil’s Angel
|
| Ebony Canion
|
Left for Dead
|
| Michelle Miles
|
The High Price I Had to Pay 2: Sentenced to 30 Years as a Nonviolent, First Time Offender
|
| Rayshawn Wilson
|
Lionheart: Coming from Where I’m From
|
| Angela Beth Zusman
|
The Griots of Oakland: Voices from the African American Oral History Project
|
| 2016
|
Fiction
|
Kevin Deutch
|
The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York’s Bloods and Crips
|
[5]
|
| E. R. Frank
|
Dime
|
| Peggy Kern
|
Little Peach
|
| Patti Laboucane-Benson
|
The Outside Circle
|
| PD Workman
|
Tattooed Teardrops
|
| Nonfiction
|
Tewhan Butler
|
America’s Massacre: The Audacity of Despair and a Message of Hope
|
| Alton Carter
|
The Boy Who Carried Bricks: A True Story of Survival
|
| Tony Lewis, Jr.
|
Slugg: A Boy’s Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration
|
| Richard Ross
|
Girls In Justice
|
| Julian Voloj
|
Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker
|
| 2017
|
Fiction
|
Christy Lynn Abram
|
Little Miss Somebody
|
[6]
|
| Michael McLellan
|
American Flowers
|
| Nonfiction
|
Alton Carter
|
Aging Out: A True Story
|
| Kathleen Glasgow
|
Girl in Pieces
|
| Ben Westhoff
|
Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
|
| S. C. Sterling
|
Teenage Degenerate
|
| Ni-Ni Simone
|
Dear Yvette
|
| C. Desire
|
Other Broken Things
|
| Jeffry W. Johnston
|
The Truth
|
| Free Minds Book Club
|
The Untold Story of the Real Me: Young Voices from Prison
|
| 2018
|
Fiction
|
Beacon House Writers. K. Crutcher (Ed.) with Z. Gatti (Design)
|
The Day Tajon Got Shot
|
[7]
|
| Peter Edwards
|
The Biker’s Brother
|
| Beth Goobie
|
The Pain Eater
|
| William Kowalski
|
Jumped In
|
| Tony Medina with John Jennings and Stacey Robinson (Illus.)
|
I am Alfonso Jones
|
| Colleen Nelson
|
Blood Brothers
|
| Christopher Paslay
|
White Flight
|
| Nonfiction
|
Eve Porinchak
|
One Cut
|
| Taura Stinson and Stacey Debono (Eds.) and Glenn Adhama (Illus.)
|
100 Things Every Black Girl Should Know
|
| Poetry
|
rm drake
|
Broken Flowers: And Other Stairways to Heaven
|
| 2019
|
Fiction
|
Hobson Brandon
|
Where the Dead Sit Talking
|
[8][9]
|
| 2E G
|
Queenpin
|
| Brown Kevin
|
Hard Knocks High: Darkskins and Redbones
|
| Colfer Eoin, Andrew Donkin, and Giovanni Rigano (Illus.)
|
Illegal
|
| Nonfiction
|
Goozh Judi and Sue Jeweler
|
Tell Me About When Moms and Dads Go to Jail: Tell Me About Jail
|
| Goozh Judi and Sue Jeweler
|
Tell Me About When Moms and Dads Come Home From Jail: Tell Me About Jail
|
| Griffin-Wallace Valencia
|
Motherless Child: A Journey of Growing Up and Forgiving
|
| Hawkins Lamont U-God
|
Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang
|
| Hobson Brandon
|
Where the Dead Sit Talking
|
| Krosoczka Jarrett
|
Hey, Kiddo
|
| Latin American Youth Center Writers and Santiago Casares
|
Voces sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth
|
| Ramos Nonieqa
|
The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary
|
| 2020
|
Fiction
|
Tasha Spillett-Sumner and Natasha Donavan
|
Surviving the City
|
[10]
|
| Sonia Patel
|
Bloody Seoul
|
| René Colato Laínez and Fabricio Vanden Broeck
|
My Shoes and I: Crossing Three Borders / Mis Zapatos y Yo: Cruzando tres Fronteras
|
| Annette D. Taylor
|
Dreams on Fire
|
| Erika T. Wurth
|
You Who Enter Here
|
| Nonfiction
|
Tytianna N. M. Wells and Ashley Cathey
|
When Hip Hop Met Poetry: An Urban Love Story
|
| Johnathan Harris and Gary Leach
|
Colorblind: A Story on Racism
|
| Jean Mendoza, Debbie Reese, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
|
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning American History for Young People)
|
| Rex Ogle
|
Free Lunch
|
| Damon Young
|
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
|
| 2021
|
Fiction
|
Normandy D. Piccolo
|
Why is Kristyn a Kutter?
|
[11]
|
| James Price
|
The Comeback: I Raised These Streets
|
| David A. Robertson, Scott B. Henderson, and Donavan Yaciuk
|
The Reckoner Rise: Breakdown
|
| Michael W. Waters and Keisha Morris
|
For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World
|
| Nonfiction
|
Mark Bleschke
|
Into the Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protest in the United States
|
| Heather Gale and Mika Song
|
Ho'onani: Hula Warrior
|
| Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bendele
|
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World
|
| Passage Academy Students at Belmont
|
Everything I Been Through
|
| 2022
|
Fiction
|
Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
|
Milo Imagines the World
|
[12]
|
| Sharon G. Flake
|
The Life I’m In
|
| Free Minds Writers
|
They Called Me 299-359: Poetry by the Incarcerated Youth of Free Minds
|
| Emolie Kpadea, Japan Spells, Damarco Taylor, and Rob Gibson
|
And Justice for Who?
|
| Nonfiction
|
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell
|
Run: Book One
|
| Chella Man and Ashley Lukashevsky
|
Continuum (A Pocket Change Collective)
|
| Marcia Argueta Mickelson
|
Where I Belong
|
| Victorya Rouse
|
Finding Refuge: Real Life Immigration Stories From Young People
|
| Elisabet Velasquez
|
When We Make It
|
| Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, and Matt Sasaki
|
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance at Wartime Incarceration
|