The Michael L. Printz Award, first given in 2000, is an award for a
book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. The
honor was named for a Topeka, Kansas, school librarian who was a long-time
active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.
Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life.
Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding
school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps."
Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe
and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska,
who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge
falls impossibly in love. When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it
is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value
of living and loving unconditionally.
John Green's stunning debut marks the arrival of a stand-out new voice
in young adult fiction.
This comprehensive and practical guide to the influential Newbery and
Printz awards for children's and young adult literature provides information
on each year's winners and honor books, as well as on the awards themselves
and the librarians for whom they are named. For each award-winning book,
there is a plot summary, list of characters and themes, background on the
author, incidents for booktalking, related reads, and fresh ideas for introducing
the book to young readers.
A comprehensive guide to the influential Newbery and Printz awards for
children's and young adult literature, providing information on each year's
winners and honor books, and on the awards themselves and the librarians
for whom they are named. For each award-winning book, there is a plot summary,
list of characters and themes, background on the author, incidents for
booktalking, related reads, and fresh ideas for introducing the book to
young readers. For honor books, there is a summary of the plot, important
characters, and primary themes. This valuable reader's advisory tool builds
on the previous Newbery Companion (2nd ed., Libraries Unlimited,
). It covers all Newbery Medals from 1922 through 2006 and all Printz
Awards from the prize's inception in 2000 through 2006. All entries from
the previous volume have been revised as needed, often adding new Related
Titles and new information to the About the Book and About the Author sections.
Michael
L Printz Award 2004-2006 by Ingram Book Group
Paperback from Ingram Book Group
ISBN: 1608948234
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Michael
L Printz Award 2000-2003 by Ingram Book Group
Paperback from Ingram Book Group
ISBN: 1608949338
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Keesha's
House (Michael L Printz Honor Book (Awards)) by Helen Frost
Hardcover from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374340641
An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to
her house when they just can't make it on their own. They are Stephie -
pregnant, trying to make the right decisions for herself and those she
cares about; Jason - Stephie's boyfriend, torn between his responsibility
to Stephie and the baby and the promise of a college basketball career;
Dontay - in foster care while his parents are in prison, feeling unwanted
both inside and outside the system; Carmen - arrested on a DUI charge,
waiting in a juvenile detention center for a judge to hear her case; Harris
- disowned by his father after disclosing that he's gay, living in his
car, and taking care of himself; Katie - angry at her mother's loyalty
to an abusive stepfather, losing herself in long hours of work and school.
Stretching the boundaries of traditional poetic forms - sestinas and
sonnets - Helen Frost's extraordinary debut novel for young adults weaves
together the stories of these seven teenagers as they courageously struggle
to hold their lives together and overcome their difficulties.
An unforgettable novel about family, loyalty and survival in sub-Saharan
Africa -- now a major motion picture.
Chanda's Secrets was first published in 2004 to extraordinary
international acclaim. It won the Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence
in YA Literature, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults selection and,
in France, was a finalist for the Prix Sorcières. It has now been
made into a major motion picture, under the name Life, Above All.
The film received a 10-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival
and was honored with the prestigious Prix Francois Chalais. To coincide
with the film's North American release by Sony Classics, the cover of this
new reprint features a poignant still from the movie.
"No-one can read Chanda's Secrets and remain untouched." -- Stephen Lewis, former UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
and current chair of the board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation and co-director
of AIDS-Free World
"The message about overcoming ignorance and shame and confronting
the facts is ever-present, but the tense story and the realistic characters
. . . will keep kids reading and break the silence about the tragedy." -- Booklist (starred review)
"Smart and determined, Chanda is a character whom readers come
to care for and believe in, in spite of her almost impossible situation.
The details of sub-Saharan African life are convincing and smoothly woven
into this moving story of poverty and courage, but the real insight for
readers will be the appalling treatment of the AIDS victims." -- School library Journal (starred review)
