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 finalistsYearAuthorTitleResultRef.1998Rules of the RoadWinnerGo and Come BackFinalistHolesIn a Dark WoodSoldier’s Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard1999Frenchtown SummerWinnerMonsterFinalistSkelligSpeakStop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy2000Miracle's BoysWinnerEsperanza RisingFinalistForgotten FireMany StonesWhen Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune2001WinnerDamageFinalistGirlhearts2002FeedWinnerAmericaFinalistBig Mouth & Ugly GirlDillon DillonThis Lullaby2003WinnerAfterFinalistOlive’s OceanTrue Confessions of a Heartless Girl2004Doing ItWinnerHow I Live NowFinalistPrivate PeacefulSammy and Juliana in HollywoodUnder the Wolf, Under the Dog2005 with Tara Chace (trans.)You & You & YouWinnerBlack JuiceFinalistI Am the MessengerLooking for Alaska2006TyrellWinnerAn Abundance of KatherinesFinalistJust in Case2007WinnerDarkwingFinalist with art by Ellen ForneyWhat They Found: Love on 145th Street2008NationWinnerDark DudeFinalistSwallow Me Whole with Dave McKean and Chris Riddell (illus.)2009Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow WearyWinnerCharles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of FaithFinalistTales from Outer Suburbia2010Winner and Marina BudhosSugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and ScienceFinalistWicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials2011Winner with Jim Kay (illus.)FinalistBeauty QueensLife: An Exploded Diagram2012Ask the PassengersWinnerBoy21FinalistCode Name VerityMy Book of Life by Angel2013Boxers and SaintsWinnerFangirlFinalistLockwood & Co: The Screaming StaircaseMortal FireWhat the Heart Knows: Chants2014WinnerBrown Girl DreamingFinalistEyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental HeadlinesGrasshopper Jungle2015My Seneca VillageWinnerDrowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New OrleansFinalistMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War2016WinnerBurn, Baby, BurnFinalist, Andrew Aydin, and Nate PowellMarch: Book Three with Daniel Hahn (trans.)2017Long Way DownWinnerGenuine FraudFinalistPiecing Me Together2018WinnerM.T. Anderson and Eugene YelchinFinalistLeslie ConnorChristopher Paul CurtisJarrett J. KrosoczkaHey, Kiddo2019When the Ground is HardWinnerShoutFinalistDigButterfly YellowPatron Saints of Nothing2020 and Ibi ZoboiPunching the AirWinnerFinalist and Lily WilliamsGo With the FlowLegendborn2021WinnerLast Night at the Telegraph ClubFinalistRevolution in Our TimeFrom a Whisper to a Rallying Cry2022TorchWinnerHollow FiresFinalistAll My RageHell Followed With Us2023Gone WolfWinnerForgive Me NotFinalistDear MedusaInvisible SonMonstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story2024Kim JohnsonThe Color of a LieWinnerTraci CheeKindlingFinalistK.A. CobellLooking for SmokeSafia ElhilloBright Red FruitCarolina IxtaShut Up, This Is Serious2025Trung Le NguyenAngelica and the Bear PrinceWinnerK. AncrumThe Corruption of Hollis BrownFinalistIdris GoodwinKing of the Neuro VerseJaime Jo HoangMy Mother, the Mermaid ChaserHannah V. SawyerrTruth Is
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