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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. 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 |
