Annal:2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2006 LATimes–Young Adult winner
- Score: 10.56
Tyrell is a young, African American teen who can’t get a break. He’s living (for now) with his spaced-out mother and little brother in a homeless shelter. His father’s in jail. His girlfriend supports him, but he doesn’t feel good enough for her—and seems to be always on the verge of doing the wrong thing around her. There’s another girl at the homeless shelter who is also after him, although the desires there are complicated. Tyrell feels he needs to score some money to make things better. Will he end up following in his father’s footsteps?
- 2007 Printz honor
- 2006 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2009 YRCA-Senior nominee
- Score: 16.57
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. He’s also a washedup child prodigy with ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a passion for anagrams, and an overweight, Judge Judy-obsessed best friend. Colin’s on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which will predict the future of all relationships, transform him from a fading prodigy into a true genius, and finally win him the girl.
Letting expectations go and allowing love in are at the heart of Colin’s hilarious quest to find his missing piece and avenge dumpees everywhere.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Volume 1. The Pox Party
- 2007 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 2006 NBA–Youth winner
- 2007 Printz honor
- 2006 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 32.57
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a faraway land — are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians’ fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of…
- 2007 Carnegie winner
- 2006 Costa-Children's shortlist
- 2006 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 22.57
The day David Case saves his brother’s life, his whole world changes. Suddenly, every moment is fizzing with significance, full of what ifs? He must hide; become an entirely new person to escape Fate… if he can. Will changing his name, befriending an astrophysicist and gaining an imaginary pet be enough? Bewildered and obsessive, he'll try anything to survive.
Just in Case is a daring, powerful and compelling read bringing the spirit of the film Donnie Darko to the heart of middle England.
The Rules of Survival: A Novel
- 2006 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2006 NBA–Youth finalist
- Score: 12.56
It all starts when Matthew observes a heroic scene in a convenience store: A man named Murdoch puts himself between an abusive father and his son. Matt is determined to get to know this man. And when, amazingly, Murdoch begins dating Matt’s mother, it seems as if life may become peaceful for the first time.
Matt and his sisters have never before known a moment of peace in a household ruled by their unpredictable, vicious mother. And so, after Murdoch inevitably breaks up with her and the short period of family calm is over, Matt sees that he needs to take…
