The Michael L. Printz Award is an annual award given to 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 (YALSA) of the American Library Association (ALA). Click here for a print-friendly version of this list.
2021 | Everything Sad Is Untrue ( a true story). By Daniel Nayeri. | Y Nayeri |
2020 | Dig. By A. S. King. | High School King |
2019 | The Poet X. By Elizabeth Acevedo. | High School Acevedo |
2018 | We Are Okay. By Nina LaCour. | High School LaCour |
2017 | March: Book Three. By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell. | Y323.1 LE bk.3 |
2016 | Bone Gap. By Laura Ruby. | High School Ruby |
2015 | I'll Give You the Sun. By Jandy Nelson. | Teen Room |
2014 | Midwinterblood. By Marcus Sedgwick. | Teen Room |
2013 | In Darkness. By Nick Lake. | Teen Room |
2012 | Where Things Come Back. By John Corey Whaley. | Teen Room |
2011 | Ship Breaker. By Paolo Bacigalupi. | Y Bacigalupi |
2010 | Going Bovine. By Libba Bray. | Teen Room |
2009 | Jellicoe Road. By Melina Marchetta. | Teen Room |
2008 | The White Darkness. By Geraldine McCaughrean. | Teen Room |
2007 | American Born Chinese. By Gene Luen Yang. | Teen Room |
2006 | Looking for Alaska. By John Green. | Teen Room |
2005 | How I Live Now. By Meg Rosoff. | Teen Room |
2004 | The First Part Last. By Angela Johnson. | Y Johnson |
2003 | Postcards from No Man's Land. By Aidan Chambers. | Teen Room |
2002 | A Step from Heaven. By An Na. | Y Na |
2001 | Kit's Wilderness. By David Almond. | Y Almond |
2000 | Monster. By Walter Dean Myers. | Y Myers |
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