The Printz Project

Michael L. Printz Winners & Honor Books

2009
Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
• Nation, by Terry Pratchett
• Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan

2008
The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean

• Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet, by Elizabeth Knox
• One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke
• Repossessed, by A.M. Jenkins
• Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, by Stephanie Hemphill

2007
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
• An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
• Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006
Looking for Alaska, by John Green

• Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan
• I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak
• John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge
• A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005
how i live now, by Meg Rosoff

• Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
• Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004
The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

• A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
• Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost
• Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003
Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers

• The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
• My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
• Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002
A Step From Heaven, by An Na

• The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson
• Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg
• Abrams Freewill, by Chris Lynch
• True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001
Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond

• Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman
• The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci
• Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison
• Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

• Skellig, by David Almond
• Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger