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Annual literary prize
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.
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel winners and finalists
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
1998
Joan Bauer
Rules of the Road
Winner
[1]
Joan Abelove
Go and Come Back
Finalist
[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 Summer
Winner
[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 Land
Winner
[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 & You
Winner
[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
Nation
Winner
[13]
[14]
Oscar Hijuelos
Dark Dude
Finalist
[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 Weary
Winner
[16]
Deborah Heiligman
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
Finalist
[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 Science
Finalist
[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 Crunch
Winner
[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
Boy21
Finalist
[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 Russia
Winner
[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 Village
Winner
[27]
Don Brown
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Finalist
[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 Fraud
Finalist
[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 Hard
Winner
[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 Williams
Go With the Flow
Tracy Deonn
Legendborn
2021
Rita Williams-Garcia
A Sitting in St. James
Winner
[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
Torch
Winner
[37]
Samira Ahmed
Hollow Fires
Finalist
[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 Wolf
Winner
[38]
Jennifer Baker
Forgive Me Not
Finalist
[39]
Olivia A. Cole
Dear Medusa
Kim Johnson
Invisible Son
Sarah Myer
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
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