The short list for the 2010 LA Times Book Prize has been announced.  The five finalists in the Young Adult Literature category are:

  

A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner

The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey

The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud

 

Sugar Changed the World: a Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

Wicked Girls: a Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill