Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award, more commonly referred to as simply the Printz Award, is one of several awards issued annually by YALSA, starting in 2000. The association's description of the award is as follows:

"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." (source: YALSA)

Printz Award Winners

 * 2015: I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
 * 2014: Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgewick
 * 2013: In Darkness by Nick Lake
 * 2012: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
 * 2011: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
 * 2010: Going Bovine by Libba Bray
 * 2009: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
 * 2008: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
 * 2007: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
 * 2006: Looking for Alaska by John Green
 * 2005: how i live now by Meg Rosoff
 * 2004: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
 * 2003: Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
 * 2002: Step from Heaven by An Na
 * 2001: Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
 * 2000: Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Printz Honor Books
The winning title each year is selected from a finalist pool of four to five novels. The finalists that do not win the award are considered Printz Honor Books.
 * 2015: And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard; The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley; Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith; This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
 * 2014: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell; Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Chokal; MAGGOT MOON by Sally Gardner; Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
 * 2013: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz; Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein; Dodger by Terry Pratchett; The White Bicycle by Beverly Branna
 * 2012: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler; The Returning by Christine Henwood; Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey; The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
 * 2011: Stolen by Lucy Christopher; Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King; Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick; Nothing by Janne Teller
 * 2010: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman; The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey; Punkzilla by Adam Rapp; Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes
 * 2009: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol. 2, Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson; The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart; Nation by Terry Pratchett; Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
 * 2008: 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: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol. 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: 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: Airborn by Kenneth Oppel; Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton; Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
 * 2004: 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: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer; My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr; Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
 * 2002: 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: Many Stones by Carolyn Coman; The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci; Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson by Louise Rennison; Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
 * 2000: Skellig by David Almond; Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson; Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger