| 2008
- Winner
The
White Darkness
Fourteen-year-old Symone's exciting vacation to Antarctica turns into a desperate struggle for survival when her uncleís obsessive quest leads them across the frozen wilderness into danger.
McCaughrean has won numerous awards for children's literature in her native England. Celebrated for her novels, picture books and folklore adaptations, The White Darkness is her first contemporary young adult novel.
"Symone's unforgettable voice propels this journey of discovery in a book that is intricately plotted, richly imaged and brings new meaning to the term unreliable narrator," said Printz Award Committee Chair Lynn Rutan. "Readers will need to hang onto their snow goggles in this compelling book in which nothing is as it seems at first glance."
– Honor
Books
Dreamquake: Book
Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
One Whole and Perfect
Day
Repossessed
Your Own, Sylvia: A
Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
2007 - Winner
American
Born Chinese
Yang
draws from American pop culture and ancient Chinese
mythology in his groundbreaking work. Expertly
told in words and pictures, Yang’s story
in three parts follows a Chinese American teenager’s
struggle to define himself against racial stereotypes.
"American Born Chinese" is the first
graphic novel to be recognized by the Michael
L. Printz Committee.
– Honor
Books
The Astonishing
Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation;
v. 1: The Pox Party
"M.T.
Anderson's "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing,
Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party" employs
18th-century language to tell the story of Octavian,
the subject of a horrifying Enlightenment experiment,
who escapes the bonds of slavery and fights in
the American Revolution."
Abundance of Katherines
A road trip to the town of
Gutshot, Tenn., offers Colin Singleton, a child
prodigy and compulsive boyfriend of girls named
Katherine, the opportunity to face his past and
find his future in John Green's second novel,
"An Abundance of Katherines."
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
In "Surrender," a psychological
thriller by Sonya Hartnett, a troubled young man
relives the horrifying events that land him on
his deathbed.
The Book Thief
"Death recounts the journey
of Liesel Meminger in Markus Zusak's "The Book
Thief," the story of a young girl who witnesses
the destructive and healing power of words in
Nazi Germany."
2006 - Winner
Looking for Alaska
Tired of his boring existence,
16-year-old Miles “Pudge” Halter heads
off to seek his Great Perhaps at an Alabama boarding
school, where new-found freedom, guilty pleasures
and an enigmatic girl named Alaska hurl him into
life.
– Honor
Books
Black Juice
Provides glimpses of the
dark side of civilization and the beauty of the
human spirit through ten short stories that explore
significant moments in people’s lives, events
leading to them and their consequences.
I Am the Messenger
After capturing a bank robber,
nineteen-year- old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins
receiving mysterious messages that direct him
to addresses where people .
John Lennon: All I Want
is the Truth
Photographic biography of
John Lennon.
A Wreath for Emmett
Till
Presents fifteen interlinked
sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old
African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi
in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, and whose
murderers were acquitted.
2005 - Winner
How I Live Now
To get away from her pregnant
stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old
Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and
cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon
war breaks out and rips apart the family while
devastating the land.
.
– Honor
Books
Airborn
Matt, a young cabin boy
aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl
traveling with her chaperone, team up to search
for the existence of mysterious winged Creatures
reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s
surface.
Lizzie Bright and the
Buckminster Boy
In 1911, Turner Buckminster
hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things
improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a
girl from a poor, nearby island Community founded
by former slaves that the town fathers -- and
Turners - - want to change into a tourist spot.
Chanda’s Secrets
Chanda struggles with the
deaths of those around her and the shame of being
molested as she continues her education and cares
for her siblings and friend Esther, amidst the
poverty and AIDS epidemic the plague her African
homeland.
2004 - Winner
The First Part Last
Bobby is a typical urban
New York City teenager--impulsive, eager, and
restless. For his sixteenth birthday he gets some
news from his girlfriend, Nia, that changes his
life forever--he's going to be a father. Suddenly
things like school and house parties and fun times
with friends are replaced by visits to Nia's obstetrician
and social workers who say that the only way for
Nia and Bobby to lead normal lives is to put their
baby up for adoption . . .
– Honor
Books
A Northern Light
In 1906, sixteen-year-old
Mattie, determined to attend college and be a
writer against the wishes of her father and fiancé,
takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers
the truth about the death of a guest. Based on
a true story that inspired Theodore Drieser’s
An American Tragedy
Keesha’s House
Seven teens facing such
problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality,
and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused
them to leave home and where they found home again.
Fat Kid Rules the
World
Seventeen-year-old Troy,
depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds,
gets a new perspective on life when a homeless
teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy
to be the drummer in his rock band.
The Earth, My Butt,
and Other Big Round Things
Feeling like she does not
fit in with the other members of her family, who
are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old
Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her
first physical relationship, and her disillusionment
with some of the people closest to her.
2003 – Winner
Postcards From No Man’s
Land
Alternates between two stories—
the contemporary story of Jacob, who visits a
daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English
grandmother—and the historical story of
Geertrui, who relates her experience of British
soldier’s attempts to liberate Holland from
its German occupation.
– Honor Books
House of the Scorpion
To most people around him,
Matt is not a boy, but a beast. But for El Patron,
lord of a country called Opium-a strip of Poppy
fields lying between the U.S. and what was once
called Mexico – Matt is a guarantee of eternal
life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself
for Matt is himself. They share identical DNA
. . .
Hole in My Life
Award winning author Jack
Gantos (Rotten Ralph, Joey Pigza Swallowed the
Key) tells of the mistakes he made in his youth
when, in1971, short on cash and desperately wanting
to go to college, he agreed to sail a boat of
hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York for
$10,000. When he was caught, he relates how writing
helped him endure and overcome his the worst experience
of his life.
My Heartbeat
Fourteen-year-old Ellen
has always been "totally madly in love"
with James, her older brother Link's best friend.
Now she is beginning to realize that Link and
James may be in love with each other. Matters
come to a head when Ellen stars asking questions.
2002– Winner
A Step From Heaven
This is the story of Young
Ju, who she grows from a toddler in Korea to a
high-school graduate in California. All the while
she desperately tries to be a 'true' American
while her immigrant parents try to make her stay
close to her Korean heritage.
– Honor Books
The Ropemaker
When the magic that protects
their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions
journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient
magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.
. .
Heart to Heart: New
Poems Inspired by Twentieth Century American Art
A compilation of poems by
Americans writing about American art in the twentieth
century.
Freewill
A teenager trying to recover
from the tragic death of his father and stepmother
believes himself to be responsible for the rash
of teen
suicides occurring in his town.
True Believer
Living in the inner city
amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn
learns from old and new friends, and inspiring
mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion
to rise to.
2001– Winner
Kit’s Wilderness
Thirteen-year-old Kit goes
to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal
mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds
both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts
of the past.
– Honor Books
Many Stones
After her sister Laura is
murdered in South Africa, Berry and her estranged
father travel there to participate in the dedication
of a memorial in her name. . .
The Body of Christopher
Creed
When the town geek goes
missing, the whole town suddenly takes notice.
Did he
run away, commit suicide, or was he murdered?
Torey Adams wants to find out . . .
Angus, Thongs, and
Full-Frontal Snogging
Here is a humorous journal
of a year in the life of Georgia, a fourteen-year-old
British girl, as she tries to reduce the size
of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing
the neighborhood animals, and win the love of
handsome hunk, Robbie.
Stuck in Neutral
Shawn McDaniel, who suffers
from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function,
relates his perceptions of his life, his family,
and his condition, especially as he believes his
father is planning to kill him.
2000– Winner
Monster
While on trial as an accomplice
to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records
his experiences in prison and in the courtroom
in the form of a film script as he tries to come
to terms with the course his life has taken.
– Honor Books
Skellig
Unhappy about his baby sister's
illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated
old house, Michael retreats to the garage and
finds a mysterious stranger who is something like
a bird and something like an angel . . .
Speak
A traumatic event near the
end of the summer has a devastating effect on
Melinda's freshman year in high school. (2000
Prinz Honor Book).
Hard Love
After starting to publish
a ‘zine in which he writes his secret feelings
about his lonely life and his parents' divorce,
sixteen-year-old John meets Marisol, a self proclaimed
“rich spoiled lesbian private-school gifted-and-talented
writer virgin," whose sharp observations
on life help John to develop his own identity.
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