Award-Winning Books

Printz Medal The Printz Award was named in honor of Michael L. Printz, a school librarian from Topeka, Kansas. It is awarded annually to authors who write a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.

A list of books that have won the Printz Award [1] since 2000.

In The Lists Below, The Titles We Own Are Linked To Our Catalog

2013 - 2010 Printz Award Winning Books

2013

In Darkness [2] by Nick Lake**
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjami Alire Saenz*
Code Name Verity [3] by Elizabeth Wein*
Dodger [4] by Terry Pratchett*
The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna*

2012

Where Things Come Back [5] by John Corey Whaley**
Why We Broke Up [6] by Daniel Handler*
The Returning [7] by Christine Hinwood*
Jasper Jones [8] by Craig Silvey*
The Scorpio Races [9] by Maggie Stiefvater*

2011

Ship Breaker [10] by Paolo Bacigalupi**
Stolen by Lucy Christopher*
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A. S. King*
Revolver [11] by Marcus Sedgwick*
Nothing by Janne Teller*

2010

Going Bovine [12]by Libba Bray**
Charles and Emma: the Darwins' Leap of Faith [13]by Deborah Heiligman*
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey*
Punkzilla [14] by Adam Rapp*
Tales of the Madman Underground: an Historical Romance, 1973 [15]by John Barnes*

** award winner
* honor winner

2009 - 2000 Printz Award Winning Books

2009

Jellicoe Road [16] by Melina Marchetta**
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves [17] by M. T. Anderson*
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks [18]by E. Lockhart
Nation [19] by Terry Pratchett*
Tender Morsels [20] by Margo Lanagan*

2008

White Darkness [21] by Geraldine McCaughrean**
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet [22]by Elizabeth Knox*
One Whole and Perfect Day [23] by Judith Clarke*
Repossessed [24] by A. M. Jenkins*
Your Own Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath [25] by Stephanie Hemphill*

2007

American Born Chinese [26] by Gene Luen Yang**
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation [27]
by M. T. Anderson*
An Abundance of Katherines [28] by John Green*
Surrender [29] by Sonya Hartnett*
The Book Thief [30] by Markus Zusak*

2006

Looking for Alaska [31] by John Green**
Black Juice [32] by Margo Lanagan*
I Am the Messenger [33] by Markus Zusak*
John Lennon: All I Want I the Truth [34] by Elizabeth Partridge*
A Wreath for Emmett Till [35] by Marilyn Nelson*

2005

How I Live Now [36] by Meg Rosoff**
Airborn [37] by Kenneth Oppel*
Chanda's Secrets [38] by Allan Stratton*
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy [39]by Gary D. Schmidt*

2004

The First Part Last [40]by Angela Johnson**
A Northern Light [41]by Jennifer Donnelly*
Keesha's House [42] by Helen Frost*
Fat Kid Rules the World [43] by K. L. Going*
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things [44] by Carolyn Mackler*

2003

Postcards From No Man's Land [45]by Aidan Chambers**
The House of the Scorpion [46]by Nancy Farmer*
My Heartbeat [47] by Garret Freymann-Weyr*
Hole in My Life [48] by Jack Gantos*

2002

A Step From Heaven [49]by An Na**
The Ropemaker [50] by Peter Dickinson*
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art [51]by Jan Greenberg Abrams*
Freewill [52] by Chris Lynch*
True Believer [53]by Virginia Euwer Wolff*

2001

Kit's Wilderness [54]by David Almond**
Many Stones [55]by Carolyn Coman*
The Body of Christopher Creed [56]by Carol Plum-Ucci*
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson [57]by Louise Rennison*
Stuck in Neutral [58]by Terry Trueman*

2000

Monster [59] by Walter Dean Myers**
Skellig [60] by David Almond*
Speak [61] by Laurie Halse Anderson*
Hard Love [62]by Ellen Wittlinger*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

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