Michael L. Printz Award Winners

The Printz Award is an award for 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. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

2012 Winner & Honor Books

Where Things Come Back
by John Corey Whaley

• Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

• Honor Book: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
• Honor Book: The Returning by Christine Hinwood
• Honor Book: Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
• Honor Book: The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

2011 Winner & Honor Books

• Winner: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

• Honor Book: Stolen by Lucy Christopher
• Honor Book: Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
• Honor Book: Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
• Honor Book: Nothing by Janne Teller

 

2010 Winner & Honor Books

Going Bovine
by Libba Bray

• Winner: Going Bovine by Libba Bray

  Cameron, a sixteen-year-old slacker, sets off on a madcap road trip along with a punk angel, a dwarf sidekick, a yard gnome and a mad scientist to save the world and perhaps his own life.
• Honor Book: Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman. 
  Once Charles Darwin sets his rational mind to marry the religious Emma Wedgeworth, they both must take a leap of faith in order to build a life together.
• Honor Book: The Monstrumologist, by Rick Yancey 
  Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a monstrumologist, races against time to save his town (and himself) from the anthropophagi, a pod of monstrous creatures who prey on humans.
• Honor Book: Punkzilla, by Adam Rapp
  Fourteen-year-old runaway Jamie, homeless and strung out, embarks on a harrowing journey to reach his dying brother.
• Honor Book: Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973, by John Barnes
  Karl Shoemaker wants to begin his senior year with a new identity separate from his counseling group, his alcoholic mother and the legacy of his dead father.

A full list of winners can be viewed at the Printz Awards website.