Michael L. Printz Award
for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Award
Owned by the UMD Library with Abstract
The Michael L. Printz Award was established in 2000 and is 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. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association. The award information was retrieved from the (ALA) Michael L. Printz Award website. The call numbers for the books owned by the UMD library are provided after the citation.
Award Year |
Michael L. Printz Award |
2008 |
McCaughrean, Geraldine. (2007). The white darkness : a novel. New York, NY : HarperTempest. INTR-FIC M1233wh 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. |
2007 |
Yang, Gene Luen. (2006). American born Chinese. (Color by Lark Pien). New York : First Second. INTR-FIC Y225am Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format. |
2006 |
Green, John. (2005). Looking for Alaska : a novel. New York : Dutton Books. INTR-FIC G7966Lo 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. |
2005 |
Rosoff, Meg. (2004). How I live now. New York : Wendy Lamb Books. INTR-FIC R8224ho 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. |
2004 |
Johnson, Angela. (2003). The first part last. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. INTR-FIC J6633fi Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant. Parties and friends are replaced by trips to the doctor and a social worker who wants them to put the baby up for adoption. Then the unimaginable happens and it all changes again. |
2003 |
Chambers, Aidan. (2002). Postcards from no man's land. New York : Dutton Books. INTR-FIC C444PO Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, 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. |
2002 |
Na, An. (2001). A step from heaven. Asheville, NC : Front Street. PS3614.A16 S74 2001 A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America. |
2001 |
Almond, David. (2000). Kit's wilderness. New York : Delacorte Press. INTR-FIC A452KI 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. |
2000 |
Myers, Walter Dean. (1999). Monster. (Illustrations by Christopher Myers). New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers. INTR-FIC M996mn 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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