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The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult Printz Award literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a Winners long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association .

For a complete list of honored books, go to www.ala.org/yalsa/printz

2014 Printz Award Winner Midwinterblood by Doomed love circles back through the centuries in a series of seven intricately plotted, interlocking stories set on a mysterious, isolated island. Forgetting and remembering, blessed and cursed, modern and ancient, these dualities brilliantly infuse the novel’s lush landscape. 100 Walt Whitman Avenue Young Adult Fiction Sedgwick Suggested Reading for Young Adults Mount Laurel, NJ 08054

856-234-7319 www.mtlaurel.lib.nj.us 2013 Winner: In Darkness 2009 Winner: Jellicoe Road 2004 Winner: Lake, Nick Marchetta, Melina Johnson, Angela Fifteen-year-old Shorty awakens Haunted by the past, Taylor Markham the realities of fatherhood come slowly beneath the ruins of a crumbled reluctantly leads the students of the but surely to 16-year-old Bobby after hospital in Haiti, where his weakening Jellicoe School in their secret territory the birth of his daughter, Feather. Told mind begins flashing back through his wars against the Townies and the in alternating chapters, Johnson's story own violent history, the loss of his twin Cadets. Marchetta’s lyrical writing evokes reveals the love Bobby and his sister, and his mystical connection to the Australian landscape in a suspenseful girlfriend Nia shared then, as well as Toussaint Louverture, the nineteenth-century tale of raw emotion, romance, humor and tragedy. the growing affection Bobby feels now for his revolutionary who helped liberate his country. Young Adult Fiction Marchetta daughter. Available as an ebook via sjrlc.lib.overdrive.com or Young Adult Fiction Johnson request through interlibrary loan 2008 Winner: The White Darkness McCaughrean, Geraldine 2003 Winner: Postcards from No Man’s Land 2012 Winner: Fourteen-year-old Symone's exciting Chambers, Aidan Where Things Come Back vacation to Antarctica turns into a Chambers’ novel is a passionate narrative about Whaley, John Corey desperate struggle for survival when her 17-year-old Jacob, who comes to Amsterdam to Witty, sardonic Cullen Witter agonizes uncle's obsessive quest leads them find the grave of his grandfather who died there over the disappearance of his beloved across the frozen wilderness into danger. during World War II. He meets Geertrui, the Dutch brother, Gabriel, while everyone else in Young Adult Fiction McCaughrean woman who cared for his wounded grandfather. his stiflingly dull Arkansas town thrills to Her teenage World War II story is interwoven with the apparent return of a long-extinct 2007 Winner: Jacob’s surprising discoveries about love, sex, woodpecker. Kidnapping, bromance, arcane religious family secrets and his own identity. texts, and ornithology collide in this ground-breaking Yang, Gene Luen Request through interlibrary loan coming-of-age tale. Yang draws from American pop culture Young Adult Fiction Whaley and ancient Chinese mythology in his 2002 Winner: 2011 Winner: Ship Breaker groundbreaking work. Expertly told in Na, An Bacigalupi, Paolo words and pictures, Yang’s story in three Tells the tale of Young Ju as she grows from a In Ship Breaker, near a drowned New parts follows a Chinese American toddler in Korea to a high-school graduate in Orleans ravaged by hurricanes and teenager’s struggle to define himself against racial California desperately trying to be a 'true' American global warming, Nailer and his young stereotypes. while her immigrant parents try to make her stay crew eke out a meager existence by Young Adult Graphic Novels 741.5 Yan close to her Korean heritage. scavenging materials on the ship- Request through interlibrary loan littered coast. 2006 Winner: Young Adult Fiction Bacigalupi Green, John 2001 Winner: Kit’s Wilderness Tired of his boring existence, 16-year-old Almond, David 2010 Winner: Miles “Pudge” Halter heads off to seek In lyrical fashion, Kit's story melds the Bray, Libba his Great Perhaps at an Alabama board- darkness of the past with bright hope for the future. In Going Bovine, Cameron, a ing school, where new-found freedom, Request through interlibrary loan sixteen-year-old slacker, sets off on a guilty pleasures and an enigmatic girl madcap road trip along with a punk named Alaska hurl him into life. 2000 Winner: angel, a dwarf sidekick, a yard gnome Young Adult Fiction Green Myers, Walter Dean and a mad scientist to save the world While on trial as an accomplice to a and perhaps his own life. 2005 Winner: murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Young Adult Fiction Bray Rosoff, Meg Harmon records his experiences in Set during a shocking occupation by prison and in the courtroom in the form terrorist forces, Rosoff’s novel is of a film script. narrated by15-year-old Daisy, a wry and Young Adult Fiction Myers alienated young woman who finds true love, mystical connections, and a sense of Annotations from ala.org/yalsa/printz home with her cousins in England. Request through interlibrary loan