I’ve read a few Printz Award books now and at least 3 have become some of my very favourite books so I have decided to work my way through the ones that have captured my interest. There’s 34 on the list here but no set goal as to how many I have to read.
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The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
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Printz List
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2011 Winner
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi*
2011 Honor Books
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King*
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick*
Nothing by Janne Teller*
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2010 Winner
Going Bovine by Libba Bray*
2010 Honor Books
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey*
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes*
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2009 Winner
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta**
2009 Honor Books
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart**
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2008 Honor Books
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins*
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2007 Winner
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang*
2007 Honor Books
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson*
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green*
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett*
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak**
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2006 Winner
Looking for Alaska by John Green*
2006 Honor Books
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak*
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson*
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2005 Winner
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff*
2005 Honor Books
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2004 Winner
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson*
2004 Honor Books
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*
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2003 Honor Books
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer*
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr*
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2002 Winner
A Step from Heaven by An Na*
2002 Honor Books
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson*
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art by Jan Greenberg*
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff*
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2001 Honor Books
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*
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2000 Winner
Monster by Walter Dean Myers*
2000 Honor Books
Skellig by David Almond*
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson*
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*Books I aim to read
**Books read that I aim to review
