Michael L. Printz Award (2000-2007)

This Award is named for Michael L. Printz, a former school librarian at Topeka West High School in Kansas, who passed away in 1996. He was well-known as an excellent colleague and teacher. The Michael L. Printz Award is given to recognize a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.

Click on the title to read a short summary of the book, and to place a hold.

The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award.

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (2007)

Looking for Alaska by John Green (2006)

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (2005)

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (2004)

Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers (2003)

A Step from Heaven by An Na (2002)

Kit's Wilderness by David Almond (2001)

Monster by Walter Dean Myers (2000)