Michael Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award is the Young Adult Library Services Association version of the Newbery. It recognizes literary excellence in young adult literature. The winner can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or an anthology. The winner (and up to four honor books) are books written for young adults between the ages of 12 and 18. The award is named after a high school librarian who was an active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.

Winners

Year	Award	Title	Author
2005	Winner	how i live now	Meg Rosoff
	Honor	Airborn	Kenneth Oppel
	Honor	Chanda's Secrets	Allan Stratton
	Honor	Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy	Gary Scmidt
2004	Winner	The first part last	Angela Johnson
	Honor	A Northern Light	Jennifer Donnelly
	Honor	Keesha's House	Helen Frost
	Honor	Fat Kid Rules the World	K.L. Going
	Honor	The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things	Carolyn Mackler
2003	Winner	Postcards from No Man's Land	Aidan Chambers
	Honor	The House of the Scorpion	Nancy Farmer
	Honor	My Heartbeat	Garret Freymann-Weyr
	Honor	Hole in My Life	Jack Gantos
2002	Winner	A Step From Heaven	An Na
	Honor	The Ropemaker	Peter Dickinson
	Honor	Heart to Heart	Jan Greenberg
	Honor	Freewill	Chris Lynch
	Honor	True Believer	Virginia Euwer Wolff
2001	Winner	Kit's Wilderness	David Almond
	Honor	Many Stones	Carolyn Comer
	Honor	The Body of Christopher Creed	Carol Plum-Ucci
	Honor	Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging	Louise Renninson
	Honor	Stuck in Neutral	Terry Trueman
2000	Winner	Monster	Walter Dean Myers
	Honor	Skellig	David Almond
	Honor	Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson
	Honor	Hard Love	Ellen Wittlinger