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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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