The List

Michael L. Printz Award Winners & Honor Books

2016
Bone Gap, by Laura Ruby
Out of Darkness, by Ashley Hope Perez
The Ghosts of Heaven, by Marcus Sedgwick

2015
I’ll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson
And We Stay, by Jenny Hubbard
The Carnival at Bray, by Jessie Ann Foley
Grasshopper Jungle, by Andrew Smith
This One Summer, by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

2014
Midwinterblood, by Marcus Sedgwick
Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell
The Kingdom of Little Wounds, by Susann Cokal
Maggot Moon, by Sally Gardner
Navigating Early, by Clare Vanderpool

2013
In Darkness, by Nick Lake
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein
Dodger, by Terry Pratchett
The White Bicycle, by Beverley Brenna

2012
Where Things Come Back, by John Corey Whaley
Why We Broke Up, by Daniel Handler
The Returning, by Christine Hinwood
Jasper Jones, by Craig Silvey
The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater

2011
Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Stolen, by Lucy Christopher
Please Ignore Vera Dietz, by A.S. King
Revolver, by Marcus Sedgwick
Nothing, by Janne Teller

2010
Going Bovine, by Libba Bray
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith, by Deborah Heiligman
The Monstrumologist, by Rick Yancey
Punkzilla, by Adam Rapp
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973, by John Barnes

2009
Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan

2008
The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet, by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke
Repossessed, by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, by Stephanie Hemphill

2007
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan
I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005
How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff
Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004
The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson
A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost
Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003
Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers
The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002
A Step From Heaven, by An Na
The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg
Abrams Freewill, by Chris Lynch
True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001
Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond
Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman
The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison
Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
Skellig, by David Almond
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger

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