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Printz Winners & Honour Books

The Michael L. Printz Award is given out by the American Library Association for an outstanding contribution to young adult literature by an American author in the previous year (2004 winners were published in 2003). It was first awarded in 2000. For more information, please see the ALA website.

2005

  • WINNER: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
  • HONOUR: Chanda's Secrets by Alan Stratton
  • HONOUR: Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
  • HONOUR: Lizzie Bright & The Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
  • 2004

  • WINNER: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
  • HONOUR: A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
  • HONOUR: Fat Kid Rules The World by K.L.Going
  • HONOUR: The Earth, My Butt And Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
  • HONOUR: Keesha's House by Helen Frost
  • 2003

  • WINNER: Postcards From No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
  • HONOUR: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
  • HONOUR: My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
  • HONOUR: Hole In My Life by Jack Gantos
  • 2002

  • WINNER: A Step From Heaven by An Na
  • HONOUR: True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
  • HONOUR: Free Will by Chris Lynch
  • HONOUR: The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
  • HONOUR: Heart To Heart by Jan Greenberg
  • 2001

  • WINNER: Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
  • HONOUR: Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
  • HONOUR: The Body Of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
  • HONOUR: Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
  • HONOUR: Stuck In Neutral by Terry Trueman

    2000

  • WINNER: Monster by Walter Dean Myers
  • HONOUR: Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
  • HONOUR: Skellig by David Almond
  • HONOUR: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
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