Michael L. Printz Award
The Michael L. Printz Award is an annual American literary award that has been presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a subgroup of the American Library Association , since 2000 . The award is named after the Topeka school librarian Mike Printz.
Every year, a main prize (Printz Medal) and several honorary awards (Printz Honor) are given to authors of outstanding books for young people. From 1922 until the award was introduced in 2000, the Newbery Medal covered children's books as well as books for young people.
Award winners
- 2000 Walter Dean Myers , Monster (German monster! Monster? )
- Honor Books: David Almond , Skellig (German time of the moon ); Laurie Halse Anderson , Speak ; Ellen Wittinger , Hard Love
- 2001 David Almond , Kit's Wilderness (German between yesterday and tomorrow )
- Honor Books: Carolyn Coman , Many Stones ; The Body of Christopher Creed , Carol Plum-Ucci ; Louise Rennison , Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson ; Terry Trueman , stuck in neutral
- 2002 An Na , A Step From Heaven (English is spoken in heaven )
- Honor Books: Peter Dickinson , The Ropemaker ; Jan Greenberg Abrams , Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art ; Chris Lynch , Freewill ; Virginia Euwer Wolff , True Believer (dt. Hard to believe it )
- 2003 Aidan Chambers , Postcards from No Man's Land (German message from No Man's Land )
- Honor Books: Nancy Farmer , The House of the Scorpion (dt. The Scorpio House ); Garret Freymann-Weyr , My Heartbeat ; Jack Gantos , Hole in My Life
- 2004 Angela Johnson , The First Part Last
- Honor Books: Jennifer Donnelly , A Northern Light (Eng. The light of the north ); Helen Frost , Keesha's House ; KL Going , Fat Kid Rules the World ; Carolyn Mackler , The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
- 2005 Meg Rosoff , How I Live Now (dt. So I live now )
- Honor Books: Kenneth Oppel , Airborn (German cloud panther ); Allan Stratton , Chanda's Secrets (Eng. What nobody talks about ); Gary D. Schmidt , Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
- 2006 John Green , Looking for Alaska (Eng. One like Alaska )
- Honor Books: Margo Lanagan , Black Juice ; Markus Zusak , I Am the Messenger (Eng. The Joker ); Elizabeth Partridge , John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography ; Marilyn Nelson , A Wreath for Emmett Till
- 2007 Gene Luen Yang , American Born Chinese
- Honor Books: MT Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party ; John Green , An Abundance of Katherines , (Eng. The first love [after 19 unsuccessful attempts] ); Sonya Hartnett , surrender ; Markus Zusak , The Book Thief (dt. The Book Thief )
- 2008 Geraldine McCaughrean , The White Darkness (dt. White Darkness )
- Honor Books: Elizabeth Knox , Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet ; Judith Clarke , One Whole and Perfect Day ; AM Jenkins , Repossessed ; Stephanie Hemphill , Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
- 2009 Melina Marchetta , Jellicoe Road
- Honor Books: Matthew Tobin Anderson , The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves ; E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks ; Terry Pratchett , Nation (Eng. An Island )
- 2010 Libba Bray , Going Bovine (German. Without. End. Life )
- Honor Books: Deborah Heiligman , Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith ; Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist ; Adam Rapp , Punkzilla ; John Barnes , Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973
- 2011 Paolo Bacigalupi , Ship Breaker (German ship thieves )
- Honor Books: Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Eng. I wish I could hate you ); AS King , Please Ignore Vera Dietz ; Marcus Sedgwick , revolver ; Janne Teller , Nothing (dt. Nothing )
- 2012 John Corey Whaley , Where Things Come Back
- 2013 Nick Lake , In Darkness
- 2014 Marcus Sedgwick , Midwinterblood (German Seven Moons )
- 2015 Jandy Nelson , I'll Give You the Sun
- 2016 Laura Ruby , Bone Gap
- 2017 John Lewis , Andrew Aydin , Nate Powell , March: Book Three
- 2018 Nina LaCour , We Are Okay
- Honor Books (selection): Angie Thomas , The Hate U Give
- 2019 Elizabeth Acevedo , The Poet X
- 2020 AS King , Dig.
- Honor Books (selection): Geraldine McCaughrean , Where the World Ends