Michael L. Printz Awards for Young Adult Books 2000 to presentJan 27 '10 (Updated Jan 23 '12) Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line The Michael L. Printz Award is presented annually to the previous year's most distinguished Young Adult author. These are links to the winner and honor book reviews at Epinions.
The Michael L. Printz Award recognizes "literary excellence in young adult literature" and is sponsored through the American Library Association's booklist. Books were first awarded in 2000 and this award was named after Michael L. Printz, a school librarian, high school teacher, and advocate for quality young adult literature. Books are selected by a committee on the basis of being the best, "in terms of literary merit," young adult books for the previous year. Up to four honor books can be identified for one year. This list will be updated each year and kept pinned to the top of the Children's Section in the Books Message Boards. Some of the books lack reviews. Please consider using this as a guide for selecting quality Young Adult books and then reading and reviewing those that are lacking reviews or any of the other books on this list. If you do provide a review, please contact me and I'll remove the "no reviews" designation. Where it's possible to select for an author, that author also has a link. It's my theory that most of these authors have also contributed other books of quality. (A few authors seem to share names with many other writers and they do not have links--I recommend conducting your own search.) 2012 WINNER Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley HONOR BOOKS Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler The Returning by Christine Hinwood Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater *If you want to review any of these books, let me know and I'll add them to the database. 2011 WINNER Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (no reviews) HONOR BOOKS Stolen by Lucy Christopher Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A. S. King (no reviews) Revolver written by Marcus (not in database, let me know if you want to review this) Nothing written by Janne Teller 2010 WINNER Going Bovine by Libba Bray (no reviews) HONOR BOOKS Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman (no reviews); The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Punkzilla by Adam Rapp Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance by John Barnes 2009 WINNER Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (no reviews) HONOR BOOKS The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart; Nation by Terry Pratchett Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan 2008 WINNER The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (no reviews) HONOR BOOKS Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox (no reviews) One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke (no reviews) Repossessed by A. M. Jenkins (no reviews) Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill (no reviews) 2007 WINNER American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang HONOR BOOKS The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson; An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green (no reviews) Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak 2006 WINNER Looking for Alaska, by John Green HONOR BOOKS Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge (no reviews) A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson 2005 WINNER how i live now, by Meg Rosoff HONOR BOOKS Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel Chanda's Secrets, by Allan Stratton (no reviews) Lizzi Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt 2004 WINNER The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson HONOR BOOKS A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly Keesha's House, by Helen Frost Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler 2003 WINNER Postcards from No Man's Land, by Aidan Chambers (no reviews) HONOR BOOKS The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer (no reviews) My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr (no reviews) Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos 2002 WINNER A Step From Heaven, by An Na (no reviews) HONOR BOOKS The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson (no reviews) Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg Abrams (no reviews) Freewill by Chris Lynch (no reviews) True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff (no reviews) 2001 WINNER Kit's Wilderness by David Almond HONOR BOOKS Many Stones by Carolyn Coman The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman 2000 WINNER Monster by Walter Dean Myers HONOR BOOKS Skellig, by David Almond Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger  |
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