The Michael L. Printz Award is given for books that exemplify literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Toepka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.

2008      2007      2006      2005      2000-2004

2008 Award Winner
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
2008 Honor Books
Dreamquake* by Elizabeth Knox	One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke	Repossessed by A. M. Jenkins	Your Own, Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill
2007 Award Winner
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
2007 Honor Books
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green	The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson	The Book Thief by Markus Zusak	Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
2006 Award Winner
Looking for Alaska by John Green
2006 Honor Books
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan	I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak	John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge	A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
2005 Award Winner
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
2005 Honor Books
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel	Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton	Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

* Indicates book is part of a series

Updated January 2007