Annal:1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1998. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
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- 1998 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- 1998 LATimes–Young Adult winner
- 2001 YRCA-Senior nominee
- Score: 24.48
Meet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone’s Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5’11’’ at 16 years old, Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to stand out in the crowd—for all the wrong reasons. But that doesn’t stop Madeline Gladstone, the president of Gladstone’s Shoes 176 outlets in 37 states, from hiring Jenna to drive her cross country in a last ditch effort to stop Elden Gladstone from taking over his mother’s company and turning a quality business into a shop-and-schlock empire. Now Jenna Boller shoe salesperson is about to become a shoe-store spy…
- 1998 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.48
Here is a teenage voice you haven’t heard—from the Peruvian jungle.
Alicia lives much as her Isabo ancestors have lived for centuries in the Amazon jungle of Peru. She is astonished when “two old white ladies” arrive on the river and announce through their boatman, the girl’s mother’s brother’s wife’s brother, that they want to settle in Poincushmana for a time, to study. They are anthropologists (and actually in their twenties), but to Alicia and the others they are stingy, too skinny, sexually naive, and strangers. It is a baby girl (more valuable in the…
- 1998 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.48
No one has ever bested Geoffrey, the Sheriff of Nottingham—until the day a new villain appears in the forest. Cunning, treacherous, and, against all expectations, a man to respect, his name is Robin Hood. Their deadly game of cat and mouse begins—and the Sheriff’s life will never be the same.
Acclaimed young adult author Michael Cadnum’s subtle, evocative prose is sure to leave readers spellbound.
- 2001 YRCA-Junior winner
- 1999 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 1999 Newbery winner
- 1998 NBA–Youth winner
- 1998 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 46.51
A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment, by the author of There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom.
Stanley Yelnats’s family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys’ juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake—it has been dry for over a hundred years—and it’s hardly a camp. As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but she…
Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard
- 1998 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 6.48
In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard left his farm and enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was fifteen. He didn’t rightly know what a “shooting war” meant, or what he was fighting for. All he knew was that he didn’t want to miss out on a great adventure.
The shooting war meant the horror of combat and the wild luck of survival. It meant knowing how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. Waiting for death. And Charley learned “This is how it’s done.”
When he entered the service he was a boy. When he came…
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