Los Angeles Times Book Prize: young adult fiction

The Los Angeles Times has honored books annually since 1980. Currently, it does so in many categories that include, among others, biography, current interest, fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Works are eligible regardless of the language in which they were originally published, but not until the year of their first U.S. publication in English.  The prizes are normally presented before the start of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, another annual event sponsored by the newspaper.

2023: Gone Wolf, by Amber McBride

2022: Torch, by Lyn Miller-Lachmann

2021: A Sitting in St. James, by Rita Williams-Garcia

2020: Punching the Air, by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

2019: When the Ground Is Hard, by Malla Nunn

2018: The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo

2017: Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds

2016: The Lie Tree, by Frances Hardinge

2015: My Seneca Village, by Marilyn Nelson

2014: The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, by Candace Fleming

2013: Boxers and Saints, by Gene Luen Yang

2012: Ask the Passengers, by A.S. King

2011: The Big Crunch, by Pete Hartman

2010: A Conspiracy of Kings, by Megan Whalen Turner

2009: Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary, by Elizabeth Partridge

2008: Nation, by Terry Pratchett

2007: A Darkling Plain, by Philip Reeve

2006: Tyrell, by Coe Booth

2005: You & You & You, by Per Nilsson

2004: Doing It, by Melvin Burgess

2003: A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly

2002: Feed, by M.T. Anderson

2001: The Land, by Mildred D. Taylor

2000: Miracle's Boys, by Jacqueline Woodson

1999: Frenchtown Summer, by Robert Cormier

1998: Rules of the Road, by Joan Bauer