Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerRules of the RoadJoan BauerMeet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone's Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5'11'' at 16 years old, Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to stand out in the crowd for all the wrong reasons. But that doesn't stop Madeline Gladstone, the preside...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistGo and Come BackJoan AbeloveAmazonHolesLouis SacharAmazonIn a Dark WoodMichael CadnumAmazonSoldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley GoddardGary PaulsenAmazon

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerA Darkling Plain: The Hungry City Chronicles - Book 4Philip ReeveIn the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another....Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistDarkwingKenneth OppelAmazonThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: A NovelSherman Alexie, Ellen ForneyAmazonThe White DarknessGeraldine McCaughreanAmazonWhat They Found: Love on 145th StreetWalter Dean MyersAmazon

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerTyrellCoe BoothAn astonishing new voice in teen literature, writing what is sure to be one of the most talked-about debuts of the year. Tyrell is a young African-American teen who can't get a break. He's living (for now) with his spaced-out mother and little brother in a...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistAn Abundance of KatherinesJohn GreenAmazonJust in CaseMeg RosoffAmazonThe Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1. The Pox PartyM.T. AndersonAmazonThe Rules of Survival: A NovelNancy WerlinAmazon

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerYou & You & YouPer NilssonYoung Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes to protect himself from radiation, touches the lives of all around him, resulting in disillusionment, loss, love, and more than a few surprises....Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistBlack JuiceMargo LanaganAmazonI Am the MessengerMarkus ZusakAmazonLooking for AlaskaJohn GreenAmazonThe Center of the WorldAndreas SteinhöfelAmazon

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerDoing ItMelvin BurgessDino's girlfriend won't give him what he wants. Jonathon is afraid of what his mates will think of the girl he likes. And Ben is having extra lessons from his sexy teacher. Three seventeen-year-old boys discover sex for the first time: but do they really k...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistHow I Live NowMeg RosoffAmazonPrivate PeacefulMichael MorpurgoAmazonSammy and Juliana in HollywoodBenjamin Alire SáenzAmazonUnder the Wolf, Under the DogAdam RappAmazon

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerA Northern LightJennifer DonnellyIn 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story....Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistAfterFrancine ProseAmazonOlive's OceanKevin HenkesAmazonThe River Between UsRichard PeckAmazonTrue Confessions of a Heartless GirlMartha BrooksAmazon

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerFeedM.T. AndersonIn a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistAmericaE.R. FrankAmazonBig Mouth & Ugly GirlJoyce Carol OatesAmazonDillon DillonKate BanksAmazonThis Lullaby: A NovelSarah DessenAmazon

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerThe Land: Book 1 of Logan FamilyMildred D. TaylorThe son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he knows. His white father has acknowledged him and raised him openly-something unusual in post-Civil War Georgia. But as he grows into a man he learns that lif...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistDamageA.M. JenkinsAmazonGirlheartsNorma Fox MazerAmazonThe Other Side Of TruthBeverley NaidooAmazonThe Seeing Stone: Book 1 of Arthur TrilogyKevin Crossley-HollandAmazon

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerMiracle's BoysJacqueline WoodsonTwelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother....Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistEsperanza RisingPam Muñoz RyanAmazonForgotten FireAdam BagdasarianAmazonMany StonesCarolyn ComanAmazonWhen Kambia Elaine Flew in from NeptuneLori Aurelia WilliamsAmazon

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerFrenchtown SummerRobert CormierEugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder “what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his belov...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistMonsterWalter Dean MyersAmazonSkelligDavid AlmondAmazonSpeak: A NovelLaurie Halse AndersonAmazonStop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went CrazySonya SonesAmazon