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Michael L. Printz Award

 
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Printz Award
Awarded for literary excellence in young adult literature
Presented by Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) a division of the American Library Association (ALA)
Country  United States
First awarded 2000
Official Website http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz.cfm

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.








Recipients

Year Author Book Citation
2009 Melina Marchetta Jellicoe Road Winner
2009 M. T. Anderson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves Honor
2009 E. Lockhart The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Honor
2009 Terry Pratchett Nation Honor
2009 Margo Lanagan Tender Morsels Honor
2008 Geraldine McCaughrean The White Darkness Winner
2008 Elizabeth Knox Dreamquake Honor
2008 Judith Clarke One Whole and Perfect Day Honor
2008 A. M. Jenkins Repossessed Honor
2008 Stephanie Hemphill Your Own Sylvia Honor
2007 Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese Winner
2007 M. T. Anderson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party Honor
2007 John Green An Abundance of Katherines Honor
2007 Sonya Hartnett Surrender Honor
2007 Markus Zusak The Book Thief Honor
2006 John Green Looking for Alaska Winner
2006 Margo Lanagan Black Juice Honor
2006 Markus Zusak I Am the Messenger Honor
2006 Elizabeth Partridge John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography Honor
2006 Marilyn Nelson A Wreath for Emmett Till Honor
2005 Meg Rosoff How I Live Now Winner
2005 Kenneth Oppel Airborn Honor
2005 Allan Stratton Chanda's Secrets Honor
2005 Gary D. Schmidt Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Honor
2004 Angela Johnson The First Part Last Winner
2004 Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light Honor
2004 Helen Frost Keesha's House Honor
2004 K. L. Going Fat Kid Rules the World Honor
2004 Carolyn Mackler The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things Honor
2003 Aidan Chambers Postcards from No Man's Land Winner
2003 Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion Honor
2003 Garret Freymann-Weyr My Heartbeat Honor
2003 Jack Gantos Hole in My Life Honor
2002 An Na A Step From Heaven Winner
2002 Peter Dickinson The Ropemaker Honor
2002 Jan Greenberg Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art Honor
2002 Chris Lynch Freewill Honor
2002 Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer Honor
2001 David Almond Kit's Wilderness Winner
2001 Carolyn Coman Many Stones Honor
2001 Carol Plum-Ucci The Body of Christopher Creed Honor
2001 Louise Rennison Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Honor
2001 Terry Trueman Stuck in Neutral Honor
2000 Walter Dean Myers Monster Winner
2000 David Almond Skellig Honor
2000 Laurie Halse Anderson Speak Honor
2000 Ellen Wittlinger Hard Love Honor

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