Annal:2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2002 LATimes–Young Adult winner
- 2003 Horn Book-fiction honor
- 2002 NBA–Youth finalist
- Score: 22.52
So says Titus, a teenager whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been almost completely obliterated by his “feed,” a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. Feeds are a crucial part of life for Titus and his friends. After all, how else would they know where to party on the moon, how to get bargains at Weatherbee & Crotch, or how to accessorize the mysterious lesions everyone’s been getting? But then Titus meets Violet, a girl who cares about what’s happening to the world and challenges everything Titus and his friends hold dear. A…
- 2002 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.52
What kind of parents would name their child Dillon Dillon?
For his tenth birthday, Dillon’s parents give him a red rowboat with his name painted on the stern: Dillon Dillon. Why did his parents give him a name like that? To Dillon, it seems like the right time to find out. The truth alters everything Dillon has ever known or felt about himself and his family. But with the rowboat Dillon finds a new freedom as he embarks on a journey that takes him back to his beginnings. His discovery of an island and his memorable encounters with a pair of nesting…
This Lullaby: A Novel
- 2002 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.52
Remy always knows the perfect time to give a boyfriend “The Speech” telling him it’s over-after the initial romantic whirl, but before the reality of an actual relationship hits. Her friends tease that her boyfriend tally is nearing the triple digit mark, but she’s a girl who knows just how to avoid any messy emotional entanglement. After all, she’s had the example of her five-times-married mother to show her what not to do.
So what, then, is it about Dexter that makes it so hard for her to follow her own rules? He’s everything she hates: messy, disorganized,…
- 2002 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.52
“Where would you like to be five years from now?” Dr. B. asks.
“Nowhere,” America answers.
By age fifteen, America has already been nowhere. Been nobody. Separated from his foster mother, Mrs. Harper. A runaway living for weeks in a mall, then for months in Central Park. A patient at Applegate, the residential treatment facility north of New York City. And now at Ridgeway, a hospital.
America is a boy, he thinks to himself, who gets lost easy and is not worth the trouble of finding.
But Dr. B. takes the trouble. With abiding care, he…
- 2002 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.52
Matt Donaghy has always been a Big Mouth, but it’s never gotten him in trouble - until one day when two detectives escort him out of class for questioning. Matt has been accused of threatening to blow up Rocky River High School.
Ursula Riggs has always been an Ugly Girl. A loner with fierce, staring eyes, Ursula has no time for petty high school stuff like friends and dating—or at least that’s what she tells herself. Ursula is content with minding her own business. And she doesn’t even really know Matt Donaghy.
But Ursula is the only person…
