Annal:2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 2007. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
A Darkling Plain: The Hungry City Chronicles - Book 4
- 2007 LATimes–Young Adult winner
- 2006 Guardian Award winner
- Score: 20.57
In A Darkling Plain, Philip Reeve brilliantly completes the breath-taking adventures that began with Mortal Engines. Wren Natsworthy is enjoying life as an aviatrix but her father Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - the last, shocking, encounter with Hester, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal's bullet. Meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London...
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: A Novel
- 2008 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 2007 NBA–Youth winner
- 2007 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 26.58
In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author’s own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney, that reflect the character’s art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.
- 2007 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.57
As the sun sets on the time of the dinosaurs, a new world is left in its wake….
Dusk
He alone can fly and see in the dark, in a colony where being different means being shunned—or worse. As the leader’s son, he is protected, but does his future lie among his kin?
Carnassial
He has the true instincts of a predator, and he is determined that his kind will not only survive but will dominate the world of beasts.
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
- 2007 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.57
Walter Dean Myers returns to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn’t want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the “good daughter” who realizes that there’s only one way to help her brother and her family. Other stories center on the daily drama of the Curl-E-Que beauty shop, or capture the slapstick side of passion.
- 2008 Printz winner
- 2007 Carnegie shortlist
- 2007 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2005 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 28.58
Captain Oates, hero of the Antarctic, has been dead for nearly a century. But not in Sym’s head. In there, he is her constant companion, her soul mate, her adviser. It is as if he walked out of the Polar blizzard and into her mind. In fact, if it were not for Titus, life might be as bleak a place as the Antarctic wilderness.
Then a short family expedition makes her ask the question she has long been avoiding: who but the mad trust for happiness to someone or something that isn’t there?
