The
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
is named in honor of a Topeka, KS school librarian. It is awarded annually
to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in Young Adult Literature.
It is sponsored by Booklist a publication of the American Library
Association.
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2008
Geraldine McCaughrean. The White Darkness
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
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2007
Gene Luen Yang. American Born Chinese
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
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2006
John Green.
Looking for Alaska
Sixteen-year-old
Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama
includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by
the search for answers about life and death after a fatal
car crash.
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2005
Meg
Rosoff. How
I Live Now
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City,
fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt
and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks
out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
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2004
Angela
Johnson. The
First Part Last
With
powerful language and keen insight, Johnson tells the story
of a teen father's struggle to figure out what "the right
thing" is and then to do it.
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- 2003
- Aidan Chambers. Postcards
from No Man's Land
- Alternates
between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob
visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English
grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui
relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate
Holland from its German occupation
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- 2002
- An Na. A
Step From Heaven
- A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to
learn English and adjust to life in America
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- 2001
- David Almond. Kit's
Wilderness
- Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather
in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and
finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the
past
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- 2000
- Walter Dean Myers. Monster
- While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old
Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the
courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come
to terms with the course his life has taken
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