Michael L. Printz
the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature is given to a young adult work of fiction, nonfiction, poetry or an anthology published in the previous year. it is chosen by a Committee of nine members, including a chair and the criteria for winning books is quality and literary excellence, with an emphasis on books “that readers will talk about”.
up to four honorary titles can be selected in any given year and often, the honorary titles are as interesting and worthwhile as the winning titles.
i have been working my way through this list and so far, all of them have been very good and lead me to believe that if you favor the YA genre, these winners and honorary titles are a great place to start for reading suggestions.
2010
Winner: Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Honor Books:
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes
2009
Winner: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
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
Honor Books:
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill
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
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
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
Lizzie 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
Honor Books:
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
2002
Winner: A Step From Heaven by An Na
Honor Books:
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art by Jan Greenberg Abrams
Freewill by Chris Lynch
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
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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