The winners of the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Awards were announced on their Twitter feed. One of the awards is for YA literature. Here is the winner of that category as well as its list of finalists:

WINNER

When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn

 

FINALISTS

Butterfly Yellow by Thanhh Lai

Dig by A. S. King

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson