2019 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

When the Ground is Hard
Malla Nunn
2018 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
2017 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
2016 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

The Lie Tree
Frances Hardinge
2015 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

My Seneca Village
Marilyn Nelson
2014 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Candace Fleming
2013 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Boxers & Saints Boxed Set
Gene Luen Yang
2012 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Ask the Passengers
A.S. King
2011 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

The Big Crunch
Pete Hautman
2010 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

A Conspiracy of Kings
Megan Whalen Turner
2009 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary
Elizabeth Partridge
2008 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Nation
Terry Pratchett
2007 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

A Darkling Plain
Philip Reeve
2006 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Tyrell
Coe Booth
2005 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

You & You & You
Per Nilsson
2004 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Doing It
Melvin Burgess
2003 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly
2002 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Feed
M. T. Anderson
2001 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

The Land
Mildred D. Taylor
2000 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Miracle’s Boys
Jacqueline Woodson
1999 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature

Frenchtown Summer
Robert Cormier
1998 L.A. Times Book Prize – Young Adult Literature
