11/12/2022 0 Comments Good drama books for young adults![]() Previous winners include Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours (2015), Sarah Crossan's One (2016), Patrice Lawrence's Orangeboy (2017), Will Hill's After the Fire (2018), Sara Barnard's Goodbye, Perfect (2019), and Juno Dawson's Meat Market (2020). We know you love YA fiction so our aim is to showcase the best YA from the UK and Ireland, awarding the YA Book Prize every year to a novel that our expert judges, including young people, think is something special. Books shelved as adult-drama: The Help by Kathryn Stockett, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, The Art of Racing in. We also gave the third ever YA Book Prize Special Achievement Award to the Queen of UK YA and former Children's Laureate, Malorie Blackman, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first novel in her seminal YA series, Noughts & Crosses. Download the first chapter of every book on the shortlist and find discussion points for them, as well as Q&As with all the authors, here. You can also take part it in our YA Book Prize shortlist reading challenge on StoryGraph here. The rest of the books on the shortlist were: Wranglestone by Darren Charlton Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson And the Stars Were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff Melt My Heart by Bethany Rutter Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle and A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood.įind out more about the shortlisted books and authors here. A kind young man who asks her to go to the prom with. Having grown up in a conservative town in Louisiana, Hannah battles with her feelings, willing herself to like Wally. In this beautifully written coming-of-age novel, Hannah is in her senior year of high school when she starts to fall in love with her best friend, Baker. The UK is home to such an incredible and unique YA literature community, it’s an honour to have been chosen as this year’s YA Book Prize winner.” Lesbian Books for Young Adults Her Name in the Sky By: Kelly Quindlen. Reacting to her win, Alice Oseman said: “ Loveless was the most difficult creative project of my life, and I am so utterly thrilled that it has won such a prestigious award. The judges called it “a joyful book that truly promotes celebrating our differences”. Loveless is a coming-out story about Georgia, a romance-obsessed teenager who realises that she is aromantic and asexual. ![]() Congratulations to the winner of the YA Book Prize 2021, Loveless by Alice Oseman (published by HarperCollins Children's Books)! ![]()
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