Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel

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The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel, established in 1998, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1998 Joan Bauer Rules of the RoadWinner [1]
Joan Abelove Go and Come BackFinalist [2]
Louis Sachar Holes
Michael Cadnum In a Dark Wood
Gary Paulsen Soldier’s Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard
1999 Robert Cormier Frenchtown SummerWinner [1]
Walter Dean Myers Monster Finalist [3]
David Almond Skellig
Laurie Halse Anderson Speak
Sonya Sones Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
2000 Jacqueline Woodson Miracle's Boys Winner [1]
Pam Muñoz Ryan Esperanza Rising Finalist [4]
Adam Bagdasarian Forgotten Fire
Carolyn Coman Many Stones
Lori Aurelia Williams When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune
2001 Mildred D. Taylor The LandWinner [1]
A. M. Jenkins Damage Finalist [5]
Norma Fox Mazer Girlhearts
Beverley Naidoo The Other Side of Truth
Kevin Crossley-Holland The Seeing Stone
2002 M. T. Anderson Feed Winner [1]
E. R. Frank America Finalist [6]
Joyce Carol Oates Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Kate Banks Dillon Dillon
Sarah Dessen This Lullaby
2003 Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light Winner [7]
Francine Prose After Finalist [7]
Kevin Henkes Olive’s Ocean
Richard Peck The River Between Us
Martha Brooks True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
2004 Melvin Burgess Doing It Winner [8]
Meg Rosoff How I Live Now Finalist [8]
Michael Morpurgo Private Peaceful
Benjamin Alire Sáenz Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
Adam Rapp Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
2005 Per Nilsson with Tara Chace (trans.)You & You & YouWinner [9]
Margo Lanagan Black Juice Finalist [9]
Markus Zusak I Am the Messenger
John Green Looking for Alaska
Andreas Steinhöfel The Center of the World
2006 Coe Booth Tyrell Winner [1] [10]
John Green An Abundance of Katherines Finalist [11]
Meg Rosoff Just in Case
M. T. Anderson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
Nancy Werlin The Rules of Survival
2007 Philip Reeve A Darkling Plain Winner [12]
Kenneth Oppel Darkwing Finalist [12]
Sherman Alexie with art by Ellen Forney The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Geraldine McCaughrean The White Darkness
Walter Dean Myers What They Found: Love on 145th Street
2008 Terry Pratchett NationWinner [13] [14]
Oscar Hijuelos Dark DudeFinalist [15]
Nate Powell Swallow Me Whole
Neil Gaiman with Dave McKean and Chris Riddell (illus.) The Graveyard Book
Candace Fleming The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
2009 Elizabeth Partridge Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow WearyWinner [16]
Deborah Heiligman Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of FaithFinalist [16]
Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia
Frances Hardinge The Lost Conspiracy
James Cross Giblin The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy
2010 Megan Whalen Turner A Conspiracy of Kings Winner [17]
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and ScienceFinalist [17]
Rick Yancey The Curse of the Wendigo
Jonathan Stroud The Ring of Solomon
Stephanie Hemphill Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
2011 Pete Hautman The Big CrunchWinner [18]
Patrick Ness with Jim Kay (illus.) A Monster Calls Finalist [19]
Libba Bray Beauty Queens
Mal Peet Life: An Exploded Diagram
Maggie Stiefvater The Scorpio Races
2012 A. S. King Ask the Passengers Winner [20] [21]
Matthew Quick Boy21Finalist [22]
Elizabeth Wein Code Name Verity
Martine Leavitt My Book of Life by Angel
Paolo Bacigalupi The Drowned Cities
2013 Gene Yang Boxers and Saints Winner [23]
Rainbow Rowell Fangirl Finalist [24]
Jonathan Stroud Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase
Elizabeth Knox Mortal Fire
Joyce Sidman What the Heart Knows: Chants
2014 Candace Fleming The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial RussiaWinner [25]
Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming Finalist [26]
Paul Fleischman Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
Andrew Smith Grasshopper Jungle
E.K. Johnston The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
2015 Marilyn Nelson My Seneca VillageWinner [27]
Don Brown Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New OrleansFinalist [27]
Steve Sheinkin Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Jason Reynolds The Boy in the Black Suit
Laura Amy Schlitz The Hired Girl
2016 Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree Winner [28]
Meg Medina Burn, Baby, Burn Finalist [29]
John Lewis , Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell March: Book Three
Socorro Acioli with Daniel Hahn (trans.)The Head of the Saint
Julie Berry The Passion of Dolssa
2017 Jason Reynolds Long Way Down Winner [30]
E. Lockhart Genuine FraudFinalist [30]
Renée Watson Piecing Me Together
Dashka Slater The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
Angie Thomas The Hate U Give
2018 Elizabeth Acevedo The Poet X Winner
2019 Malla Nunn When the Ground is HardWinner [31]
Laurie Halse Anderson Shout Finalist [32]
A. S. King Dig
Thanhha Lai Butterfly Yellow
Randy Ribay Patron Saints of Nothing
2020 Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi Punching the Air Winner [33]
Allan Wolf The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party Finalist [34]
Dean Atta The Black Flamingo
Karen Schneemann and Lily WilliamsGo With the Flow
Tracy Deonn Legendborn
2021 Rita Williams-Garcia A Sitting in St. JamesWinner [35]
Malinda Lo Last Night at the Telegraph Club Finalist [36]
Darcie Little Badger A Snake Falls to Earth
Kekla Magoon Revolution in Our Time
Paula Yoo From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry
2022 Lyn Miller-Lachmann TorchWinner [37]
Samira Ahmed Hollow FiresFinalist [37]
Sabaa Tahir All My Rage
Andrew Joseph White Hell Followed With Us
Kip Wilson The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
2023 Amber McBride Gone WolfWinner [38]
Jennifer BakerForgive Me NotFinalist [39]
Olivia A. Cole Dear Medusa
Kim JohnsonInvisible Son
Sarah Myer Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story

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