Printz RC

For a long time, I figured there would be no way that I would try to read all the books on an award list. Mostly because there are usually A LOT of books on an award list.

However, when I realized that the Michael L. Printz Award for Young Adult literature, had only started in 2000, and I had read half of the winners. I thought I’d give it a shot and decided I would read all the winners. Then I looked at the honor-winning books and discovered many were on my to-read list. So now, I’d like to read as many of those as I can as well.

Here’s a link to the ALA site on the award. (This link will hopefully work. One never knows with the ALA site.)

Here’s the list of books separated by have read and have not read.

*As a note, there are links to amazon for the individual titles. However, I am NOT part of the affiliate program, the links just help me keep the books straight by connecting me directly to a description and reviews of the books.*

HAVE READ

2012

2011

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (2011 winner)
Stolen by Lucy Christopher (2011 honor)(my review)

2010

Going Bovine by Libba Bray (2010 winner)(my review)
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes (2010 honor)(my review)

2009

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (2009 winner)(my review)
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (2009 honor)(my review)
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (2009 honor)(my review)

2008

The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (2008 winner)(my review)
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox (2008 honor)(my review)

2007

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (2007 winner)
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (2007 honor)(my review)
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (2007 honor)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (2007 honor)
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett (2007 honor)(my review)

2006

Looking for Alaska by John Green (2006 winner)
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (2006 honor)(my review)
I am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak (2006 honor)(my review)

2005

how i live now by Meg Rosoff (2005 winner)
Chanda’s Secrets by Allan Stratton (2005 honor)(my review)

2004

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (2004 winner)
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (2004 honor)
Keesha’s House by Helen Frost (2004 honor)(my review)
Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going (2004 honor)(my review)
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler (2004 honor)(my review)

2003

Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers (2003 winner)(my review)
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr (2003 honor)(my review)
Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos (2003 honor)(my review)

2002

A Step from Heaven by An Na (2002 winner)(my review)
Heart to Heart: New Poems inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art by Jan Greenberg Abrams (2002 honor)(my review)
Freewill by Chris Lynch (2002 honor)(my review)

2001

Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond (2001 winner)(my review)
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson by Louise Rennison (2001 honor)
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman (2001 honor)(my review)
Many Stones by Carolyn Coman (2001 honor)(my review)

2000

Monster by Walter Dean Myers (2000 winner)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (2000 honor)
Skellig by David Almond (2000 honor)(my review)
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger (2000 honor)(my review)

HAVE NOT READ

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (2012 winner)
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handley; art by Maira Kalman (2012 honor)
The Returning by Christine Hinwood (2012 honor)
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (2012 honor)
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (2012 honor)
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (2011 honor)
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick (2011 honor)
Nothing by Janne Teller (2011 honor)
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman (2010 honor)
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey (2010 honor)
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp (2010 honor)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson (2009 honor)
Nation by Terry Pratchett (2009 honor)
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke (2008 honor)
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins (2008 honor)
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill (2008 honor)
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2006 honor)
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth, a Photographic Biography by Elizabeth Partridge (2006 honor)
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel (2005 honor)
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (2005 honor)
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (2003 honor)
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson (2002 honor)
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff (2002 honor)
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci (2001 honor)