Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book

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Winners of the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, awarded by the Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year.

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The award for Best Young Adult Book was first presented in 2003, and is among the awards still presented.

Winners

Winners are as follows: [1]

YearNovelAuthorRef.
2003 Coraline Neil Gaiman
2004 The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett
2005 A Hat Full of Sky Terry Pratchett
2006 Pay the Piper: A Rock 'N' Roll Fairy Tale Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
2007 Wintersmith Terry Pratchett
2008 Un Lun Dun China Miéville
2009 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman [2]
2010 Leviathan Scott Westerfeld [3]
2011 Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi [4]
2012 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Catherynne M. Valente
2013 Railsea China Miéville
2014 The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two Catherynne M. Valente [5]
2015 Half a King Joe Abercrombie
2016 The Shepherd's Crown Terry Pratchett [6]
2017 Revenger Alastair Reynolds [7] [8] [9]
2018 Akata Warrior Nnedi Okorafor [10] [11] [12]
2019 Dread Nation Justina Ireland [13] [14] [15]
2020 Dragon Pearl Yoon Ha Lee [16] [17] [18]
2021 A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher [19] [20] [21]
2022 Victories Greater Than Death Charlie Jane Anders [22] [23] [24]
2023 Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak Charlie Jane Anders
2024 Promises Stronger Than Darkness Charlie Jane Anders [25]

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