2003 winner
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book Public
Created and curated by Phil in SF
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Coraline by Dave McKean, Neil Gaiman
4 stars
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her …
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The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (The Discworld series)
4 stars
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
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A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #32)
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
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Pay the piper by Jane Yolen (A rock 'n' roll fairy tale)
3 stars
When Callie interviews the band, Brass Rat, for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children …
Phil in SF says: 2006 winner
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Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #35)
4 stars
‘Crivens!’
Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made just one little mistake . . .
And now the spirit of …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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What is Un Lun Dun?
It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner
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The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman
5 stars
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
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4 stars
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (Ship Breaker, #1)
5 stars
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
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan (Fairyland, #1)
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
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5 stars
"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
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The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. Valente (Fairyland (3))
Longing for a new adventure that will reunite her with Ell, the Wyverary, and Saturday, September is spirited away to …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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Half a King by Joe Abercrombie (Shattered Sea, #1)
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
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The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5) by Terry Pratchett
4 stars
The Shepherd's Crown is a comic fantasy novel, the last book written by Terry Pratchett before his death in March …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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Revenger by Alastair Reynolds (Revenger, #1)
Revenger is a rocket-fueled tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism. . …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
