Michael L. Printz Award

For excellence in young adult literature

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2008 Honor Books
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 Honor Books
The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 1) by M.T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

2006 Honor Books
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak
John Lennon by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson

2005 Honor Books
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Chanda’s Secret by Allan Stratton

2004 Honor Books
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Keesha's House by Helen Frost
Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going

2003 Honor Books
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

2002 Honor Books
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art edited by Jan Greenberg
Freewill by Chris Lynch
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001 Honor Books
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Many Stones by Carolyn Coman

2000 Honor Books
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Skellig by David Almond
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson