Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book Public

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  1. Coraline by ,

    Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her …

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    2003 winner

  2. The Wee Free Men by  (The Discworld series)

    A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue …

    Phil in SF says:

    2004 winner

  3. A Hat Full of Sky by  (Discworld, #32)

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    Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic – not chores and ill-tempered …

    Phil in SF says:

    2005 winner

  4. Pay the piper by  (A rock 'n' roll fairy tale)

    When Callie interviews the band, Brass Rat, for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children …

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    2006 winner

  5. Wintersmith by  (Discworld, #35)

    ‘Crivens!’

    Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made just one little mistake . . .

    And now the spirit of …

    Phil in SF says:

    2007 winner

  6. Un Lun Dun by 

    No rating

    What is Un Lun Dun?It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the …

    Phil in SF says:

    2008 winner

  7. The Graveyard Book by 

    After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural …

    Phil in SF says:

    2009 winner

  8. Leviathan by 

    In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to …

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    2010 winner

  9. Ship Breaker by  (Ship Breaker, #1)

    Set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National Book Finalist …

    Phil in SF says:

    2011 winner

  10. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by , (Fairyland, #1)

    No rating

    Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her …

    Phil in SF says:

    2012 winner

  11. Railsea by 

    "On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the …

    Phil in SF says:

    2013 winner

  12. The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by  (Fairyland (3))

    Longing for a new adventure that will reunite her with Ell, the Wyverary, and Saturday, September is spirited away to …

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    2014 winner

  13. Half a King by  (Shattered Sea, #1)

    No rating

    Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains, and the …

    Phil in SF says:

    2015 winner

  14. The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5) by 

    The Shepherd's Crown is a comic fantasy novel, the last book written by Terry Pratchett before his death in March …

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    2016 winner

  15. Revenger by  (Revenger, #1)

    No rating

    Revenger is a rocket-fueled tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism. . …

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    2017 winner

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