RITA®: Best Young Adult Romance

The Young Adult category was introduced in 1983. It has not been awarded since 1996.

Winners

• Cheryl Zach - 1996 - Runaway
• Arleynn Presser - 1995 - Second to None
• Wendy Corsi Staub - 1994- - Summer Lightning
• Sherry Garland - 1993 - Song of the Buffalo Boy
• Lurlene McDaniel - 1992 - Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
• Vivian Schurfranz - 1990 - Renee
• Eileen Charbonneau - 1989 - The Ghosts of Stony Clove
• Arlene Erlbach - 1988 - Does Your Nose Get in the Way, Too?
• Kathleen Garvey - 1987 - Video Fever
• Cheryl Zach - 1986 - Waiting for Amanda
• Cheryl Zach - 1985 - The Frog Princess
• Barbara Bartholomew - 1984 - Julie's Magic Moment
• Jo Stewart - 1983