The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

The Michael L. Printz Award is given to books that exemplify literary excellence in young adult literature. Each year, a committee comprised of young adult librarians from across the United States selects one book for this award. The committee is also permitted to select up to four honor titles annually.

Michael L. Printz was a highly respected and admired high school librarian from Topeka, Kansas, who dedicated his life to connecting teenagers with books and fostering a love of reading.

2005 Printz Award

How I live now
by Meg Rosoff

2005 Honors

Airborn
By Kenneth Oppel

Chanda's Secrets
By Allan Stratton

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
By Gary D. Schmidt

2004 Printz Award

The First Part Last
By Angela Johnson

2004 Honors

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 Printz Award Winner

Postcards from No Man’s Land
by Aidan Chambers

2003 Honors

Hole in My Life
by Jack Gantos

My Heartbeat
by Garret Freymann-Weyr

The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer

2002 Printz Award

A Step from Heaven
written by An Na

2002 Honors

The Ropemaker
written by Peter Dickinson

Freewill
written by Chris Lynch

True Believer
written by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
edited by Jan Greenberg

2001 Printz Award

Kit’s Wilderness
written by David Almond

2001 Honors

Many Stones
written by Carolyn Coman

The Body of Christopher Creed
written by Carol Plum-Ucci

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson
written by Louise Rennison

Stuck in Neutral
written by Terry Trueman

2000 Printz Award

Monster
written by Walter Dean Myers

2000 Honors

Skellig
written by David Almond

Speak
written by Laurie Halse Anderson

Hard Love
written by Ellen Wittlinger