Michael L. Printz Award
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The Michael L. Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". It is sponsored by Booklist magazine; administered by the ALA's young-adult division, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA); and named for the Topeka, Kansas, school librarian Mike Printz, a long-time active member of YALSA.[1] Up to four worthy runners-up may be designated Honor Books and three or four have been named every year.
History
The Printz Award was founded in 2000 for 1999 young adult publications.[2] The award "was created as a counterpoint to the Newbery" in order to highlight the best and most literary works of excellence written for a young adult audience.[3]
Jonathon Hunt, a Horn Book reviewer, hopes that the Printz Award can create a "canon as revered as that of the Newbery."[4]
Michael L. Printz was a librarian at Topeka West High School in Topeka, Kansas, until he retired in 1994.[5] He was also an active member of YALSA, serving on the Best Books for Young Adults Committee and the Margaret A. Edwards Award Committee.[6] He dedicated his life to ensuring that his students had access to good literature. To that end he encouraged writers to focus on the young adult audience. He created an author-in-residence program at the high school to promote new talent and encourage his students. His most noteworthy find was Chris Crutcher.[2] Printz died at the age of 59 in 1996.[7]
Criteria and procedure
Source: "The Michael L. Printz Award Policies and Procedures"[8]
The selection committee comprises nine YALSA members appointed by the president-elect for a one-year term. They award one winner and honor up to four additional titles.[2] The term 'young adult' refers to readers from ages 12 through 18 for purposes of this award.[9] The Michael L. Printz Award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association (ALA).[10]
- Non-fiction, fiction, poetry and anthologies are all eligible to receive the Printz Award.
- Books must have been published between January 1 and December 31 of the year preceding the announcement of the award.
- Titles must be designated 'young adult' by its publisher or published for the age range that YALSA defines as "young adult," i.e., 12 through 18. Adult books are not eligible.
- Works of joint authorship or editorship are eligible.
- The award may be issued posthumously.
- Books previously published in another country are eligible (presuming an American edition has been published during the period of eligibility).
Recipients
The Printz Medal has been awarded for one work annually without exception.[11] Only A. S. King has received the award twice, one for a single-authored book in 2020 and another as editor and contributor to an anthology in 2024.[12]
| Year | Author | Book | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Monster | Winner | [13] |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Skellig | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Speak | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Hard Love | |||
| 2001 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Kit's Wilderness | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Many Stones | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Stuck in Neutral | |||
| 2002 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Freewill | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | True Believer | |||
| 2003 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Postcards from No Man's Land | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | My Heartbeat | |||
| Jack Script error: No such module "sort". | Hole in My Life | |||
| 2004 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Keesha's House | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Fat Kid Rules the World | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| 2005 | Script error: No such module "sort". | How I Live Now | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Airborn | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Chanda's Secrets | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | |||
| 2006 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Looking for Alaska | Winner | [14] |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Black Juice | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | I Am the Messenger | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| 2007 | Script error: No such module "sort". | American Born Chinese | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Surrender | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| 2008 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Dreamquake | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | One Whole and Perfect Day | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Repossessed | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Your Own Sylvia | |||
| 2009 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Jellicoe Road | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Nation | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Tender Morsels | |||
| 2010 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Going Bovine | Winner | [15] |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Punkzilla | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 | |||
| 2011 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ship Breaker | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Stolen | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Please Ignore Vera Dietz | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Revolver | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Nothing | |||
| 2012 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Where Things Come Back | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Why We Broke Up | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Jasper Jones | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| 2013 | Script error: No such module "sort". | In Darkness | Winner | [16] |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Code Name Verity | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Dodger | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| 2014 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Midwinterblood | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Eleanor & Park | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Kingdom of Little Wounds | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Maggot Moon | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Navigating Early | |||
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "sort". | I'll Give You the Sun | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | And We Stay | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Grasshopper Jungle | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | This One Summer | |||
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Bone Gap | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Out of Darkness | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "sort"., Script error: No such module "sort"., and Script error: No such module "sort". | March: Book Three | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Asking for It | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Scythe | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | The Sun Is Also a Star | |||
| 2018 | Script error: No such module "sort". | We Are Okay | Winner | [17] |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Long Way Down | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Strange the Dreamer | |||
| 2019 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | [18] |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Damsel | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | I, Claudia | |||
| 2020 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dig | Winner | [19][20] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". with Cathy Hirano (trans.) | The Beast Player | Honor | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". with Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (illus.) | Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Where the World Ends | |||
| 2021 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) | Winner | [21][22] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Apple (Skin to the Core) | Honor | [21] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". with Lark Pien (color) | Dragon Hoops | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Every Body Looking | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | We Are Not Free | |||
| 2022 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Firekeeper's Daughter | Winner | [23] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Concrete Rose | Honor | [23] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Last Night at the Telegraph Club | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Starfish | |||
| 2023 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | All My Rage | Winner | [24][25] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Scout's Honor | Honor | [24] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Icebreaker | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | When the Angels Left the Old Country | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality | |||
| 2024 | Script error: No such module "Sort". (ed.), written by King, M. T. Anderson, E.E. Charlton-Trujillo, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, Greg Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay, and Jenny Torres Sanchez | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | [26] |
| Script error: No such module "sort". with Eva Apelqvist (trans.) | Fire from the Sky | Honor | [26] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Gather | |||
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| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Salt the Water | |||
| 2025 | Script error: No such module "Sort". with Mar Julia (illus.) | Brownstone | Winner | [27] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Bright Red Fruit | Honor | [28] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Road Home | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Compound Fracture |
Multiple awards
As of 2025, only A. S. King has won the Printz twice;[12] she also received an Honor. Marcus Sedgwick and M. T. Anderson have written one Award winner and two Honor Books. David Almond, John Green, Geraldine McCaughrean, and Gene Luen Yang have written one Award winner and one Honor Book. Seven people have two Honor Books but have never won the Award: Margo Lanagan, Terry Pratchett, Markus Zusak, Deborah Heiligman, Mariko Tamaki, Candice Iloh, and Angie Thomas.
Six writers have won both the Printz Award and the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians: David Almond, Aidan Chambers, Geraldine McCaughrean, Meg Rosoff, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Jason Reynolds. Only Chambers and Acevedo have won both for the same book; Chambers won the 1999 Carnegie and 2003 Printz for Postcards from No Man's Land,[11][29] and Acevedo won the 2019 Carnegie and Printz for The Poet X.[30][18] In its scope, books for children or young adults (published in the UK), the British Carnegie corresponds to the American Newbery and Printz awards.
See also
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- List of ALA awards
- Newbery Medal — the first children's literary award in the world, inaugurated 1922
- Margaret Edwards Award – for outstanding lifetime contributions to young-adult literature
References
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- ↑ "The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Library Association. (ALA). Retrieved 2012-04-20.
- ↑ a b c Waddle, Linda. "The Association's Associations: YALSA Becomes Printz-Oriented. (Young Adult Library Services Association introduces Michael L. Printz Award) (Michael L. Printz Award) (Brief Article)". American Libraries 30.11 (Dec 1999): 7. Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Hennepin County Library. June 30, 2009.
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- ↑ American Libraries, March 1997, p. 76.
- ↑ "The Michael L. Printz Award Policies and Procedures". YALSA. ALA. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
- ↑ "YALSA Awards Youth Books." Education Technology News 17.3 (Feb 2, 2000): NA. Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Hennepin County Library. June 30, 2009.
- ↑ "Teen books honored". Reading Today 24.2 (Oct-Nov 2006): 12(1). Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Hennepin County Library. June 30, 2009.
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External links
- ALA Youth Media Awards
- YALSA's Teen Book Finder — free mobile app by ALA
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