Annal:2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Land: Book 1 of Logan Family
- 2002 CS King-Author winner
- 2002 Scott O'Dell winner
- 2001 LATimes–Young Adult winner
- Score: 30.52
Living in the South in the not-so-distant past, the Logans are the only black family to own farmland, while most of their black neighbors are sharecroppers on white-owned land. But where did this valuable legacy come from?
The Seeing Stone: Book 1 of Arthur Trilogy
- 2001 Guardian Award winner
- 2001 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2000 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 22.51
It is 1199 and young Arthur de Caldicot is waiting impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his friend’s father, Merlin, gives him a shining piece of obsidian, and his life becomes entwined with that of his namesake, the Arthur whose story he sees unfold in the stone.
In this many-layered novel, King Arthur is seen as a mysterious presence influencing not just one time and place, but many. The 100 short chapters are almost like snapshots, not only of the mythic tales of King Arthur, but the earthy, uncomfortable reality of the Middle Ages. Written…
- 2001 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.51
What you really want to do
is give up trying. Lay your head down on
the steering wheel and quit sneezing,
quit breathing, quit trying.
The problem is, you can’t .
Just quit, that is.
When people want to quit,
they have to choose.
Make a decision. Take action.
- 2001 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.51
Mom held me around the waist, and I bent and kissed her. “I love you, honey,” she said. “Love you, too.” It was automatic. That’s what I can’t forget.
When a heart attack takes her mom’s life, Sarabeth suddenly loses the only family and home she has ever known. Cynthia and Billy, friends of her mother, take in Sarabeth to live with them and their baby in their tiny one-bedroom apartment. Before long it becomes clear to Sarabeth that she is a burden to them, an intrusion in their lives. She wants to leave, but where can she go?
With startling…
- 2000 Carnegie winner
- 2001 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2004 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 24.5
Twelve-year-old Sade’s journalist father is a vocal critic of the corrupt government in Nigeria. When Sade’s mother is murdered, her family sees in bloody detail the violent risks that come with exposing the truth. Her father arranges for Sade and her younger brother to be smuggled to their uncle in London for safety. On the streets of London, the plans fall apart and they are abandoned ...
