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The Michael L. Printz Award for
Excellence in Young Adult Literature is presented annually to a book that
exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named in
memory of a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member
of the Young Adult Library Services
Association of the American Library
Association.
These books are shelved in alphabetical order by the author’s last
name. Click on the title to search the Library’s online catalog.
View all TeenThing Booklists. |
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2010 Award Winner |
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Going Bovine by Libba Bray |
| Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. |
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2008 Award Winner |
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Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta |
| Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia. |
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2008 Award Winner |
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The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean |
| Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. |
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| 2007 Award Winner - American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang |
| Alternates three interrelated stories
about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the
popular culture. Presented in comic book format. |
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| 2006 Award Winner - Looking
for Alaska by John Green |
| Sixteen-year-old Miles' first
year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and
great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after
a fatal car crash. |
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| 2005 - How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff |
| Fifteen-year-old Daisy, a wry and alienated young
woman, finds true love, mystical connections, and a sense of home with her
cousins in England, even while under terrorist occupation. |
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| 2004 - The First Part Last by Angela Johnson |
| Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he
becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. |
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| 2003 - Postcards From No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers |
| Playful and wrenching, thrilling and meditative, this
extraordinary novel, told in dual narratives, takes the reader on a memorable
voyage of discovery. |
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| 2002 - A Step From
Heaven by An Na |
| A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult
to learn English and adjust to life in America. |
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| 2001 - Kit’s
Wilderness by David Almond |
| Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his
grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds
both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past. |
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| 2000 - Monster by Walter Dean
Myers |
| While on trial as an accomplice to a murder,
sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the
courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the
course his life has taken. |
