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The cover of the book "The Collectors: Stories," features various eclectic items such as a skull, a moth, and a carved head. Author names and "Stories edited by A.S. King" are displayed prominently.

2024 Michael L. Printz Award Winner: THE COLLECTORS

“The Collectors: Stories,” edited by A.S. King, written by the author and nine others and published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, won the 2024 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. It is the first anthology to win the award.

A.S. King challenged nine of her favorite YA writers to produce stories about collections and collectors, tossing out conventions. In addition to King herself, contributors to the anthology included M.T. Anderson, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, G. Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay and Jenny Torres Sanchez.

2024 Michael L. Printz Honor Books

Cover of the book "Fire from the Sky" by Moa Backe Åstot, featuring an illustration of two people embracing against a blue and purple background. Text reads "Translated by Eva Apelqvist.

FIRE FROM THE SKY, written by Moa Backe Åstot, translated by Eva Apelqvist and published by Em Querido, an imprint of Levine Querido

Book cover with a dog's silhouette against a colorful forest background. Title "Gather" and author "Kenneth M. Cadow" in white font.

GATHER, written by Kenneth M. Cadow and published by Candlewick Press

The image is a book cover with a predominantly warm color palette. At the center of the cover, there is an illustration of a young woman's portrait. She has medium-toned skin, dark curly hair that falls just past her shoulders, and a serious expression. She is wearing a white shirt. The background of the portrait is a greenish-blue rectangle, which contrasts against a broader orange-pink backdrop of the cover. Overlaying the portrait are the book title and author name in large, bold, white text.

THE GIRL I AM, WAS, AND NEVER WILL BE: A SPECULATIVE MEMOIR OF TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION, written by Shannon Gibney and published by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House

Book cover of "Salt The Water" by Candice Iloh, featuring a person with dreadlocks sitting by turquoise water with a cityscape and flowering tree in the background.

SALT THE WATER, written by Candice Iloh and published by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House

Cover of the book "Fire from the Sky" by Moa Backe Åstot, featuring an illustration of two people embracing against a blue and purple background. Text reads "Translated by Eva Apelqvist.
Book cover with a dog's silhouette against a colorful forest background. Title "Gather" and author "Kenneth M. Cadow" in white font.
The image is a book cover with a predominantly warm color palette. At the center of the cover, there is an illustration of a young woman's portrait. She has medium-toned skin, dark curly hair that falls just past her shoulders, and a serious expression. She is wearing a white shirt. The background of the portrait is a greenish-blue rectangle, which contrasts against a broader orange-pink backdrop of the cover. Overlaying the portrait are the book title and author name in large, bold, white text.
Book cover of "Salt The Water" by Candice Iloh, featuring a person with dreadlocks sitting by turquoise water with a cityscape and flowering tree in the background.

2024 Michael L. Printz Committee

Chair Courtney Waters, Missouri River Regional Library, Jefferson City, Missouri; Heather Love Beverley, Cook Memorial Public Library District, Libertyville, Illinois; Leanna Chappell, Swanton Public Library, Ohio; Jamie M. Gregory, Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville, South Carolina; Abby Harrison, Greenhill School, Dallas; Alicia Kalan, The Northwest School, Seattle; Maryanne Olson, Queens Public Library, Glendale, New York; Cathy Outten, California State University, Long Beach; and Becky Reiser, REACH Prep, Stamford, Connecticut (with Emily Mazzoni, committee administrative assistant).

Previous Winners

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About the Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association. Learn more about Michael Printz via this video from cjonline.com.

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