Current and historical winners of the Michael Printz Award, with links to further information at BookBrowse.

Michael Printz Award Award Winners

Michael Printz Award

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

Current and Previous Award Winners:

  • 2023

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    All My Rage  by  Sabaa Tahir
  • 2022

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Starfish  by  Lisa Fipps
  • 2021

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Everything Sad Is Untrue  by  Daniel Nayeri
  • 2020

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Dig  by  A.S. King
  • 2019

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    The Poet X  by  Elizabeth Acevedo
  • 2018

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    We Are Okay  by  Nina LaCour
  • 2017

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    March  by  John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
  • 2016

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Bone Gap  by  Laura Ruby
  • 2015

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    I'll Give You the Sun  by  Jandy Nelson
  • 2014

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Midwinterblood  by  Marcus Sedgwick
  • 2013

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    In Darkness  by  Nick Lake
  • 2012

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Where Things Come Back  by  John Corey Whaley
  • 2011

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, 1)  by  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • 2010

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Going Bovine  by  Libba Bray
  • 2009

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Jellicoe Road  by  Melina Marchetta
  • 2008

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    The White Darkness  by  Geraldine McCaughrean
  • 2007

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    American Born Chinese  by  Gene Luen Yang
  • 2006

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Looking For Alaska  by  John Green
  • 2005

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    How I Live Now  by  Meg Rosoff
  • 2004

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    The First Part Last  by  Angela Johnson
  • 2003

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Postcards from No Man's Land  by  Aidan Chambers
  • 2002

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    A Step from Heaven  by  An Na
  • 2001

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Kit's Wilderness  by  David Almond
  • 2000

    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Monster  by  Walter Dean Myers

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