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.
2003 Winners and Honors
Postcards
from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers--Winner!
Honor Books
The
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
My
Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole
in My Life by Jack Gantos
2002 Winners and Honors
A
Step from Heaven by An Na--Winner!
Honor Books
The
Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
Heart
to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
edited by Jan Greenberg
Freewill
by Chris Lynch
True
Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
2001 Winners and Honors
Kit's
Wilderness by David Almond--Winner!
Honor Books
Stuck
in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Angus,
Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Body
of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Many
Stones by Carolyn Coman
2000 Winners and Honors
Monster
by Walter Dean Myers--Winner!
Honor Books
Hard
Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Skellig
by David Almond
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
