Printz Award

Given by Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

Other Names: Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Printz Honor
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The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member

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Stages:
All, Winner (24), Honor (90)
Years:
All, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (4), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (3), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (4), 2004 (5), 2003 (4), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (4)

Winner 24

WorkYear
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir2023
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley2022
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri2021
Dig by A. S. King2020
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo2019
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour2018
March: Book Three by John Lewis2017
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby2016
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson2015
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick2014
In Darkness by Nick Lake2013
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley2012
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi2011
Going Bovine by Libba Bray2010
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta2009
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean2008
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang2007
Looking for Alaska by John Green2006
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff2005
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson2004
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers2003
A Step From Heaven by An Na2002
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond2001
Monster by Walter Dean Myers2000

Honor 90

WorkYear
Scout's Honor by Lily Anderson2023
Icebreaker by A. L. Graziadei2023
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb2023
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer2023
Starfish by Lisa Fipps2022
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo2022
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon2022
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas2022
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee2021
Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth2021
Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh2021
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang2021
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes2020
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean2020
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki2020
The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi2020
Damsel by Elana K. Arnold2019
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti2019
I, Claudia by Mary McCoy2019
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman2018
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds2018
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor2018
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas2018
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry2017
Asking For It by Louise O'Neill2017
Scythe by Neal Shusterman2017
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon2017
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez2016
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick2016
The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley2015
And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard2015
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith2015
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki2015
The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal2014
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner2014
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell2014
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool2014
The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna2013
Dodger by Terry Pratchett2013
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz2013
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein2013
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler2012
The Returning by Christine Hinwood2012
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey2012
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater2012
Stolen by Lucy Christopher2011
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A. S. King2011
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick2011
Nothing by Janne Teller2011
Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes2010
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman2010
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp2010
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey2010
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson2009
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan2009
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart2009
Nation by Terry Pratchett2009
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke2008
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill2008
Repossessed by A. M. Jenkins2008
Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox2008
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson2007
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green2007
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett2007
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak2007
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan2006
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson2006
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge2006
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak2006
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel2005
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt2005
Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton2005
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly2004
Keesha's House by Helen Frost2004
Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going2004
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler2004
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer2003
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr2003
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos2003
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson2002
Heart to Heart : New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art by Jan Greenberg2002
Freewill by Chris Lynch2002
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff2002
Many Stones by Carolyn Coman2001
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci2001
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison2001
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman2001
Skellig by David Almond2000
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson2000
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger2000

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The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

(English, Award granter)
URL: https://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz-award
The Michael L. Printz Award is the ALA's award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. (English, Member-written)

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