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What are some recent Printz Award Winners?
"The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association." -- ALA.org
To see a complete list of the 2021 Winner and Honor books click here
To see a complete list of the 2021 Winner and Honor books click here
2021 Printz Award Winner:
Everything Sad Is Untrue is a story about stories, based on the author’s own life. Daniel (in the book) expertly weaves together tales of his family from ancient Persia, stories of his young life in Iran, and his current life as “the weird kid” in rural Oklahoma. It's a mesmerizing and, at times, emotional read that will make readers of any age think in a new way, but with plenty of snarky writing and literary potty humor that middle schoolers will certainly appreciate.
* National Indie Bestseller * NPR Best Book of the Year * NYT Best Book of the Year * Amazon Best Book of the Year * Booklist Editors' Choice * BookPage Best Book of the Year * WSJ Best Book of the Year -- BN Synopsis |
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2020 Printz Award Winner:
Five cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name.
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2019 Printz Award Winner:
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
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