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Michael L Printz Award

For a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. Official Website

Winner

cover of The White Darkness
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Fourteen-year-old Symone is obsessed with the Antarctic and with Captain Oates, the brave, romantic figure who was part of the doomed Scott expedition 90 years earlier. When Sym’s even more obsessed uncle Victor takes her on a trip to the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival that challenges everything she knows and loves.

Honor Books

cover of Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
by Elizabeth Knox
In this conclusion to the Dreamhunter series, Tziga Hame has disappeared after discovering that he can enter the Place and share his dreams with other people. His daughter Laura realizes the art of projecting dreams has turned sour and only she can unravel its puzzle by entering the Place to uncover its secrets.
cover of One Whole and Perfect Day
by Judith Clarke
With a grandmother who has an imaginary friend, an ax-wielding grandfather, a mother who brings home patients from work and an estranged older brother, Lily’s dream is to have one “whole and perfect day” in which her embarrassingly eccentric family comes together and finds happiness. Lily has always been the sensible one, but maybe it’s time for her to change her responsible ways and have more fun.
cover of Repossessed
by A. M. Jenkins
Demon Kiriel, who prefers the term Fallen Angel, needs a break from his pointless job of tormenting the damned. So he takes a small vacation by borrowing 17-year-old Shaun Simpson’s body moments before he was about to step in front of a cement mixer. It’s the perfect opportunity to find out why humans do what they do. But what will happen when his demonic superiors find out about his transgression? Kiriel doesn’t know but he�s going to have fun finding out!
cover of Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
by Stephanie Hemphill
Through a series of poems written from the point-of-view of the people closest to her, Sylvia Plath’s life is explored, beginning with her birth until a month after her untimely death by her own hand in 1963. Along with photos and an extensive list of facts and sources, Your Own, Sylvia is a terrific companion to complement Plath�s own works.