The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.
2017 Winner:
March Book: Three
by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell
Also: Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners
Also: Cybils Award Winners
Also: National Book Award Young People's Literature Winners
2016 Winner:
Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
2015 Winner:
I’ll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
2014 Winner:
Midwinterblood
by Marcus Sedgwick
2013 Winner:
In Darkness
by Nick Lake
2012 Winner:
Where Things Come Back
by John Corey Whaley
2011 Winner:
Ship Breaker
by Paolo Bacigalupi
2010 Winner:
Going Bovine
by Libba Bray
2009 Winner:
Jellicoe Road
by Melina Marchetta
2008 Winner:
The White Darkness
by Geraldine McCaughrean
2007 Winner:
American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
Also: Cybils Award Winners
2006 Winner:
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
2005 Winner:
how i live now
by Meg Rosoff
2004 Winner:
The First Part Last
by Angela Johnson
2003 Winner:
Postcards from No Man's Land
by Aidan Chambers
2002 Winner:
Step from Heaven
by An Na
2001 Winner:
Kit's Wilderness
by David Almond
2000 Winner:
Monster
by Walter Dean Myers
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.