Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
2014 2010 Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick Going Bovine by Libba Bray Honor Books: Honor Books: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner Punkzilla by Adam Rapp Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes 2013 In Darkness by Nick Lake 2009 Honor Books: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Honor Books: Sáenz The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson Dodger by Terry Pratchett The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna Nation by Terry Pratchett Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan 2012 Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley 2008 Honor Books: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman Honor Books: The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill 2011 Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi 2007 Honor Books: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Stolen by Lucy Christopher Honor Books: Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Revolver written by Marcus Sedgwick Pox Party by M.T. Anderson Nothing written by Janne Teller An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Surrender by Sonya Hartnett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2006 2002 Looking for Alaska by John Green A Step From Heaven by An Na Honor Books: Honor Books: Black Juice by Margo Lanagan The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography by by Jan Greenberg Abrams Elizabeth Partridge Freewill by Chris Lynch A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
2005 2001 how i live now by Meg Rosoff Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond Honor Books: Honor Books: Airborn by Kenneth Oppel Many Stones by Carolyn Coman Chanda’s Secrets by Allan Stratton The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison 2004: Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman The First Part Last by Angela Johnson Honor Books: 2000 A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly Monster by Walter Dean Myers Keesha’s House by Helen Frost Honor Books: Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going Skellig by David Almond The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger 2003 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