Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books
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2023
Winner: All My Rage By Sabaa Tahir
Honor Books: Icebreaker By A.L. Graziadei, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality By Eliot Schrefer, Scout's Honor By Lily Anderson, When the Angels Left the Old Country By Sacha Lamb
2022
Winner: Firekeeper's Daughter By Angeline Boulley
Honor Books: Concrete Rose By Angie Thomas, Last Night at the Telegraph Club By Malinda Lo, Revolution In Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People By Kekla Magoon, Starfish By Lisa Fipps
2021
Winner: Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) By Daniel Nayeri
Honor Books: Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth, Dragon Hoops Gene Luen Yang, color by Lark Pien, Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh, We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
2020
Winner: Dig by AS King
Honor Books: The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano; Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell;
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes; Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
2019
Winner: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Honor Books: Damsel by Elana K. Arnold; A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti; I, Claudia by Mary McCoy
2018
Winner: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Honor Books: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds; The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor; Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman
2017
Winner: March: Book Three, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Honor Books: Asking for It by Louise O'Neill; The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry; Scythe by Neal Shusterman; The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
2016
Winner: Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Honor Books: The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick and Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
2015
Winner: I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Honor Books: 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
Winner: Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
Honor Books: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell; Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal; MAGGOT MOON by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Julian Crouch; Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
2013
Winner: In Darkness by Nick Lake
Honor Books: 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
Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Honor Books: Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman; The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood; Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey; The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater
2011
Winner: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Honor Books: Stolen by Lucy Christopher, Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King, Revolver written by Marcus Sedgwick, Nothing written by Janne Teller
2010
Winner:
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Honor Books:
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
Winner:
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Honor Books:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: 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
Winner:
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
Honor Books:
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
Winner:
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
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
2006
Winner:
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Honor Books:
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
Winner:
how i live now, by Meg Rosoff
Honor Books:
Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt
2004:
Winner:
The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson
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
2003
Winner:
Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers
Honor Books:
The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos
2002
Winner:
A Step From Heaven, by An Na
Honor Books:
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
Winner:
Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond
Honor Books:
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
Winner:
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
Honor Books:
Skellig, by David Almond
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger
