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Michael Printz Award Award Winners

Michael Printz Award

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

Current and Previous Award Winners:

  • 2026

    Legendary Frybread Drive-In
    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Legendary Frybread Drive-In  by  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  • 2025

    Brownstone
    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    Brownstone  by  Samuel Teer

  • 2024

    The Collectors
    Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
    The Collectors  by  A.S. King

  • 2023

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

  • 2022

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

  • 2021

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

  • 2020

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

  • 2019

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

  • 2018

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

  • 2017

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

  • 2016

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

  • 2015

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

  • 2014

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

  • 2013

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

  • 2012

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

  • 2011

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

  • 2010

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

  • 2009

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

  • 2008

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

  • 2007

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

  • 2006

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

  • 2005

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

  • 2004

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

  • 2003

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

  • 2002

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

  • 2001

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

  • 2000

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

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