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Printz Award Winners Jellicoe Road How I Live Now Teen by Melina Marchetta by Meg Rosoff YF Marchetta YF Rosoff 2009. High school student Taylor 2005. To get away from her pregnant Markham, who was abandoned by stepmother in New York City, her drug-addicted mother at the age 15-year-old Daisy goes to England to Printz Award of 11, struggles with her identity and stay with her aunt and cousins, but family history at a boarding school in soon war breaks out and rips the Australia. family apart. Winners The White Darkness The First Part Last by Geraldine McCaughrean by Angela Johnson YF McCaughrean YF Johnson 2008. When her uncle takes her on a 2004. Bobby's carefree teenage life dream trip to the Antarctic changes forever when he becomes a wilderness, Sym's obsession with father and must care for his adored Captain Oates and the doomed baby daughter. expedition becomes a reality as she is soon in a fight for her life in some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Postcards from No Man's Land American Born Chinese by Aidan Chambers by Gene Luen Yang YF Chambers YGN Yang 2003. Jacob Todd travels to 2007. This graphic novel alternates Amsterdam to honor his between three stories about the grandfather, a soldier who died in a problems of young Chinese nearby town in World War II, while in Americans trying to participate in 1944, a girl named Geertrui meets an American popular culture. English soldier named Jacob Todd, who must hide with her family. The Michael L. Printz Award recognizes Looking for Alaska books that exemplify literary A Step from Heaven by John Green excellence in young adult literature YF Green by Na An 2006. Sixteen-year-old Miles's first YF An year at Culver Creek Preparatory 2002. At age four, Young Ju moves School in Alabama includes good with her parents from Korea to friends and great pranks, but is Southern California. She has always defined by the search for answers imagined America would be like about life and death after a fatal car heaven: easy, blissful and full of crash. riches. But when her family arrives, she finds it to be the opposite. The County Library 8030 S 1825 W 03/21 LB West Jordan, Utah 84088 | 801.943.4636 thecountylibrary.org Everything Sad Is Untrue: March: Book Three In Darkness (A True Story) by John Lewis by Nick Lake by Daniel Nayeri GN Biography Lewis YF Lake YF Nayeri 2017. Congressman John Lewis, one 2013. Following the Haitian 2021. At the front of a middle school of the key figures of the civil rights earthquake, Shorty, a gang member, classroom in Oklahoma, a boy movement, joins co-writer Andrew is trapped in the rubble of a hospital. named Khosrou (whom everyone Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring As he grows weaker, he has visions calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a lessons of history to vivid life for a of his life and of Toussaint story. His story. But no one believes a new generation, urgently relevant L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti word he says. for today's world. from French rule in 1804. Dig Bone Gap Where Things Come Back by A.S. King by Laura Ruby by John Corey Whaley YF King YF Ruby YF Whaley 2020. When their rags-to-riches 2016. Treated as an outsider in his 2012. Cullen's summer in Lily, grandparents decide against quiet Midwestern town, Finn is the Arkansas is marked by his cousin's bequeathing the family fortune to only witness to an abduction, but his death by overdose, an alleged their descendants, five teens inability to distinguish between faces spotting of a woodpecker thought to confront difficult secrets and the hampers his ability to help with the be extinct, failed romances, and his realities of their disadvantages investigation and subjects Finn to younger brother's disappearance. before uniting in the effort to save further ridicule. the family name. Ship Breaker I'll Give You the Sun by Paolo Bacigalupi The Poet X by Jandy Nelson YF Bacigalupi by Elizabeth Acevedo YF Nelson 2011. A tale set in a Gulf Coast YF Acevedo 2015. A story of first love and family shanty town 100 years in the future 2019. The daughter of devout loss follows the estrangement finds teen Nailer dreaming of a immigrants discovers the power of between daredevil Jude and her better life on the sea before slam poetry and begins participating loner twin brother, Noah, as a result discovering a beached clipper ship in a school club as part of her effort of a mysterious event brought to and lone survivor. to understand her mother's strict light by a beautiful, broken boy. religious beliefs. Going Bovine Midwinterblood by Libba Bray We Are Okay by Marcus Sedgwick YF Bray by Nina LaCour YF Sedgwick 2010. In an attempt to find a cure for YF LaCour 2014. Seven linked vignettes of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Cameron 2018. Running back to college and passion and love unfold on a Smith, a disaffected 16-year-old boy, shutting out everyone from her life Scandinavian island inhabited sets off on a or ad trip with a death- in California after a traumatic throughout various time periods by obsessed video gaming dwarf he summer that nobody else knows Vikings, vampires, ghosts and a met in the hospital. about, Marin is forced to confront curiously powerful plant that what happened during a lonely, resembles a dragon. fateful winter break..
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