Michael L. Printz Award

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Michael L. Printz Award is an annual award in the United States for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a school librarian from Topeka, Kansas, who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). The national award is sponsored by Booklist magazine and administered by YALSA, a division of the American Library Association.

Contents

[edit] Awards

[edit] Award Winners

[edit] Honor Books

  • 2008
Dreamquake, Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day, Judith Clarke
Repossessed, A. M. Jenkins
Your Own Sylvia, Stephanie Hemphill
  • 2007
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party, M. T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
Surrender, Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
  • 2006
Black Juice, Margo Lanagan
I Am the Messenger, Markus Zusak
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till, Marilyn Nelson
  • 2005
Airborn, Kenneth Oppel
Chanda's Secrets, Allan Stratton
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Gary D. Schmidt
  • 2004
A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly
Keesha's House, Helen Frost
Fat Kid Rules the World, K. L. Going
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler
  • 2003
The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat, Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life, Jack Gantos
  • 2002
The Ropemaker, Peter Dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, Jan Greenberg
Freewill, Chris Lynch
True Believer, Virginia Euwer Wolff
  • 2001
Many Stones, Carolyn Coman
The Body of Christopher Creed, Carol Plum-Ucci
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
Stuck in Neutral, Terry Trueman
  • 2000
Skellig, David Almond
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Hard Love, Ellen Wittlinger

[edit] External links

Languages