Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel

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

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	[31]
	M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin	The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge	Finalist	[32]
	Leslie Connor	The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
	Christopher Paul Curtis	The Journey of Little Charlie
	Jarrett J. Krosoczka	Hey, Kiddo
2019	Malla Nunn	When the Ground is Hard	Winner	[33]
	Laurie Halse Anderson	Shout	Finalist	[34]
	A. S. King	Dig
	Thanhha Lai	Butterfly Yellow
	Randy Ribay	Patron Saints of Nothing
2020	Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi	Punching the Air	Winner	[35]
	Allan Wolf	The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party	Finalist	[36]
	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	[37]
	Malinda Lo	Last Night at the Telegraph Club	Finalist	[38]
	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	[39]
	Samira Ahmed	Hollow Fires	Finalist	[39]
	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	[40]
	Jennifer Baker	Forgive Me Not	Finalist	[41]
	Olivia A. Cole	Dear Medusa
	Kim Johnson	Invisible Son
	Sarah Myer	Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story

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