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Kids' Catalog | Award Winners | Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

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.  Michael L. Printz Award Terms and Criteria.

2008
McCaughrean, Geraldine.  The White Darkness.

Honor Books:
Clarke, Judith.  One Whole and Perfect Day.
Hemphill, Stephanie.  Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath.
Jenkins, A. M.  Repossessed.
Knox, Elizabeth.  Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet.

2007
Yang, Gene Luen.  American Born Chinese.

Honor Books:
Anderson, M.T.  The Pox Party.
Green, John.  An Abundance of Katherines. 
Hartnett, Sonya.  Surrender. 
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.   

2006
Green, John.  Looking for Alaska: A Novel.

Honor Books:
Lanagan, Margo.  Black Juice.
Nelson, Marilyn.  A Wreath for Emmett Till.
Partridge, Elizabeth.  John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography.
Zusak, Markus.  I Am the Messenger.

2005
Rosoff, Meg.  How I Live Now.

Honor Books:
Oppel, Kenneth.  Airborn.
Schmidt, Gary D.  Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.
Stratton, Allan.  Chanda's Secrets.

2004
Johnson, Angela.  The First Part Last.

Honor Books:
Donnelly, Jennifer.  A Northern Light.
Frost, Helen.  Keesha's House.
Going, K. L.  Fat Kid Rules the World.
Mackler, Carolyn.  The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things.

2003
Chambers, Aidan.  Postcards from No Man's Land.

Honor Books:
Gantos, Jack.  Hole in My Life.
Farmer, Nancy.  The House of the Scorpion.
Weyr, Garret.  My Heartbeat.

2002
Na, An.  A Step from Heaven.

Honor Books:
Dickinson, Peter.  The Ropemaker.
Greenberg, Jan.  Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art.
Lynch, Chris.  Freewill.
Wolff, Virginia Euwer.  True Believer.

2001
Almond, David.  Kit's Wilderness.

Honor Books:
Coman, Carolyn.  Many Stones.
Plum-Ucci, Carol.  The Body of Christopher Creed.
Rennison, Louise.  Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging.
Trueman, Terry.  Stuck in Neutral.

2000
Myers, Walter Dean.  Monster.

Honor Books:
Almond, David.  Skellig.
Anderson, Laurie Halse.  Speak.
Wittlinger, Ellen.  Hard Love.