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Printz Awards

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

March: Book Three By Lewis, John

Author Aydin, Andrew Illustrator Powell, Nate 2016­08 ­ Top Shelf Productions

9781603094023 Check the Library

Awards: Coretta Scott King Award (2017), Michael L. Printz Award (2017), Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

(2017)

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award­winning and best­selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman JohnLewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co­writer Andrew Aydin andartist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today'sworld.

By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has …More

Bone Gap By Ruby, Laura

2015­03 ­ Balzer & Bray/Harperteen 9780062317605 Check the Library

Awards: Cybils (2015), Michael L. Printz Award (2016), National Book Awards (2015), Tayshas Reading (2016)

National Book Award Finalist * Printz Award Winner for Best Young Adult Book of the Year

"Ruby's novel deserves to be read and reread. It is powerful, beautiful, extraordinary."­­School Library Journal

Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps.

So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren't surprised. But Finn knows what …More

I'll Give You the Sun By Nelson, Jandy

2014­09 ­ Dial Books 9780803734968 Check the Library

Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2015), Children's Book Committee Award (2015),

Cybils (2014), Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (2016), Michael L. Printz Award (2015),Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (2016), Stonewall Book Award (2015), Tayshas Reading (2015)

The author of the highly acclaimed "The Sky Is Everywhere" presents a story of first love, family, loss, andbetrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah. …More

Midwinter Blood By Sedgwick, Marcus

2013­02 ­ Roaring Brook Press 9781596438002 Check the Library

Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2014), Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2016),

Tayshas Reading (2014), Virginia Readers Choice Award (2015)

Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited throughout various time periods by Vikings,vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant. …More

In Darkness By Lake, Nick

2012­01 ­ Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books 9781599907437 Check the Library

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In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen­year­old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of SiteSoleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of hislife of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.…More

Where Things Come Back By Whaley, John Corey

2011­05 ­ Atheneum Books 9781442413337 Check the Library

Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2012), Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice (2014),

Michael L. Printz Award (2012), Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (2012), SIBA Book Award (2012), VolunteerState Book Awards (2014), William C. Morris YA Debut Award (2012)

Just when 17­year­old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansastown, it all disappears. Tinged with melancholy and regret, comedy and absurdity, this novel finds wonder in theordinary and emerges as ultimately hopeful. …More

Ship Breaker By Bacigalupi, Paolo

2010­05 ­ Little Brown and Company 9780316056212 Check the Library

1st book in Ship breaker series

Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2011), Cybils (2010), Delaware Diamonds Award

(2012), Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2013), Evergreen Young Adult Book Award (2013),Florida Teens Read (2012), Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (2012), Green Mountain Book Award(2013), Kentucky Bluegrass Award (2012), Locus Awards (2011), Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice (2013),Michael L. Printz Award (2011), National Book Awards (2010), Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award(2012), Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2012), Tayshas Reading (2011), Texas Lone Star Reading List (2011),Virginia Readers Choice Award (2013), Volunteer State Book Awards (2013), Young Reader's Choice Award(2013)

A Nebula and Hugo Award­nominated author delivers a fast­paced dystopian adventure that is sure to appeal tofans of "Little Brother" and "The Hunger Games." …More

Going Bovine By Bray, Libba

2009­09 ­ Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers 9780385733977 Check the Library

Awards: Delaware Diamonds Award (2012), Grand Canyon Reader Award (2012), Indies Choice Book Awards (2010),

Michael L. Printz Award (2010), Young Reader's Choice Award (2012)

All 16­year­old Cameron wants is to get through high school­­and life in general­­with a minimum of effort. Butthat's before he's given the news that he's dying. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punkangel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure­­if he's willing to go in search ofit. …More

Jellicoe Road By Marchetta, Melina

2008­08 ­ Harper Teen 9780061431838 Check the Library

Awards: Cybils (2008), Michael L. Printz Award (2009)

In this absorbing new novel by the award­winning author of "Saving Francesca," nothing is as it seems and everyclue leads to more questions as Taylor Markham tries to put together the pieces of her past. …More

The White Darkness By McCaughrean, Geraldine

2007­01 ­ HarperCollins Publishers 9780060890353 Check the Library

Awards: Costa Book Awards (2005), Delaware Diamonds Award (2009), Grand Canyon Reader Award (2010), L.A. Times

Book Prize (2007), Michael L. Printz Award (2008)

The first contemporary young adult novel by Carnegie Medalist McCaughrean is a spellbinding journey in which adream trip is turned into a mad obsession, a web of lies, and a nightmarish struggle for survival. …More

American Born Chinese By Yang, Gene Luen

Illustrator Yang, Gene Luen 2007­10 ­ First Second

9781596433731 Check the Library

A tour­de­force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, "American Born Chinese" tells the story of three apparentlyunrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the

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only Chinese­American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and

greatest Chinese fables; and Chin­Kee, a personification of the …More

Looking for Alaska By Green, John

2005­03 ­ Dutton Books 9780525475064 Check the Library

Awards: Buckeye Children's Book Award (2007), Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2006), Eliot

Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2009), Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (2007),

Heartland Award (2006), Iowa High School Book Award (2008), Kentucky Bluegrass Award (2006), L.A. Times

Book Prize (2005), Michael L. Printz Award (2006), Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2007), Tayshas Reading

(2007), Virginia Readers Choice Award (2007), Volunteer State Book Awards (2008), Young Reader's Choice

Award (2008)

2006 Printz Award Winner

2005 ALA Young Adult Top Ten Selection

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Available as an e­book through MyMediaMall.net

In a stunning debut …More

How I Live Now

By Rosoff, Meg 2004­10 ­ Wendy Lamb Books

9780385746779 Check the Library

Awards: Michael L. Printz Award (2005)

In a riveting debut, Rosoff pens a novel told from the point of view of 15­year­old Daisy, an American girl who is

sent to her aunt's farm in England. When London is attacked and war breaks out, Daisy forges an extraordinary

bond with her cousins. …More

The First Part Last By Johnson, Angela

2003­06 ­ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 9780689849220 Check the Library

Awards: Coretta Scott King Award (2004), Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2006), Green Mountain

Book Award (2006), Iowa Teen Award (2007), Michael L. Printz Award (2004), Rhode Island Teen Book Award

(2005), Sequoyah Book Awards (2006), South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (2006),

Tayshas Reading (2005), Volunteer State Book Awards (2006)

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. …More

Postcards from No Man's Land

By Chambers, Aidan 2002­05 ­ Dutton Books

9780525468639 Check the Library

Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2002), Michael L. Printz Award (2003)

By turns wrenching and playful, thrilling and meditative, this Carnegie Medal­winning novel, told in dual

narratives, takes the reader on a memorable voyage of discovery in a foreign city in the midst of war. …More

A Step from Heaven By Na, An

2001­03 ­ Front Street 9781886910584 Check the Library

Awards: Children's Books of Distinction Awards (2002), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2003), Michael L.

Printz Award (2002), National Book Awards (2001)

When she is five, Young Ju Park and her family move from Korea to California. During the flight, they climb so far

into the sky she concludes they are on their way to heaven ­­ that Heaven is in America!

Life in America, however, is far more difficult than the Parks dreamed. Jobs are scarce and money is even

scarcer. Young Ju's father soon becomes so depressed and angry that he loses the ability …More

Kit's Wilderness By Almond, David

2009­11 ­ Delacorte Press 9780385326650 Check the Library

Awards: Carnegie Medal (1999), Michael L. Printz Award (2001), Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2001)

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The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal­mining town, to care for Kit's recently widowed grandfather.When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family has both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kitto join him in a game called Death. As Kit's grandfather tells him stories of the mine's past and the history of theWatson family, Askew takes Kit into the mines, where the boys …More

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