Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on literary merit. Administered by the Young Adult Library Services Associat…

Books for young adults (ages 12-18) published in the US in English during the award year.

2024

• Gather — honor
• Fire from the Sky — honor
• Salt the Water — honor

2023

• All My Rage — winner
• Icebreaker — honor
• When the Angels Left the Old Country — honor
• Scout's Honor — honor

2022

• Firekeeper's Daughter — winner
• Starfish — honor
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club — honor
• Concrete Rose — honor

2021

• Everything Sad Is Untrue — winner
• Every Body Looking — honor
• We Are Not Free — honor
• Dragon Hoops — honor

2020

• Dig — winner
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me — honor
• Where the World Ends — honor

2019

• The Poet X — winner
• Damsel — honor
• I, Claudia — honor
• A Heart in a Body in the World — honor

2018

• We Are Okay — winner
• The Hate U Give — honor
• Strange the Dreamer — honor
• Long Way Down — honor

2017

• The Passion of Dolssa — honor
• Scythe — honor
• The Sun Is Also a Star — honor
• Asking for It — honor

2016

• Bone Gap — winner
• The Ghosts of Heaven — honor

2015

• I'll Give You the Sun — winner
• The Carnival at Bray — honor
• This One Summer — honor
• Grasshopper Jungle — honor
• And We Stay — honor

2014

• Midwinterblood — winner
• Eleanor & Park — honor
• Maggot Moon — honor
• Navigating Early — honor

2013

• In Darkness — winner
• Dodger — honor
• Code Name Verity — honor

2012

• Where Things Come Back — winner
• The Returning — honor
• The Scorpio Races — honor
• Jasper Jones — honor

2011

• Ship Breaker — winner
• Please Ignore Vera Dietz — honor
• Stolen — honor
• Nothing — honor
• Revolver — honor

2010

• Going Bovine — winner
• Punkzilla — honor

2009

• Jellicoe Road — winner
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks — honor
• Nation — honor
• Tender Morsels — honor

2008

• The White Darkness — winner
• Repossessed — honor
• Dreamquake — honor
• One Whole and Perfect Day — honor
• Your Own, Sylvia — honor

2007

• American Born Chinese — winner
• An Abundance of Katherines — honor
• The Book Thief — honor
• The Pox Party — honor
• Surrender — honor

2006

• Looking for Alaska — winner
• A Wreath for Emmett Till — honor
• I Am the Messenger — honor
• Black Juice — honor

2005

• How I Live Now — winner
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy — honor
• Airborn — honor
• Chanda's Secrets — honor

2004

• The First Part Last — winner
• Keesha's House — honor
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things — honor
• A Northern Light — honor
• Fat Kid Rules The World — honor

2003

• The House of the Scorpion — honor

2002

• A Step from Heaven — winner
• Freewill — honor
• The Ropemaker — honor

2001

• Kit's Wilderness — winner
• Many Stones — honor
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging — honor
• Stuck In Neutral — honor
• The Body of Christopher Creed — honor

2000

• Monster — winner
• Speak — honor
• Skellig — honor
• Hard Love — honor