Michael L. Printz Award
| Michael L. Printz Award | |
|---|---|
| Description | the year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit" |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association |
| First awarded | 2000 |
| Website | ala |
The Michael L. Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". It is sponsored by Booklist magazine; administered by the ALA's young-adult division, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA); and named for the Topeka, Kansas, school librarian Mike Printz, a long-time active member of YALSA.[1]
Up to four worthy runners-up may be designated Honor Books and three or four have been named every year.
Laura Ruby won the 17th Printz Award (2016) for Bone Gap, published by Balzer + Bray. It was announced during the ALA midwinter meeting, January 11, 2016, when two Honor Books were also named (below).[2]
History
The Printz Award was founded in 2000 for 1999 publications.[3] The Printz Award "was created as a counterpoint to the Newbery" in order to highlight the best and most literary works of excellence written for a young adult audience.[4] Jonathon Hunt, a Horn Book reviewer, hopes that the Printz Award can create a "canon as revered as that of the Newbery."[5]
Michael L. Printz was a librarian at Topeka West High School in Topeka, Kansas, until he retired in 1994. He was also an active member of YALSA, serving on the Best Books for Young Adults Committee and the Margaret A. Edwards Award Committee. He dedicated his life to ensuring that his students had access to good literature. To that end he encouraged writers to focus on the young adult audience. He created an author-in-residence program at the high school to promote new talent and encourage his students. His most noteworthy find was Chris Crutcher.[3] Printz died at the age of 59 in 1996.[6]
Criteria and procedure
Source: "The Michael L. Printz Award Policies and Procedures"[7]
The selection committee comprises nine YALSA members appointed by the president-elect for a one-year term. They award one winner and honor up to four additional titles.[3] The term 'young adult' refers to readers from ages 12 through 18 for purposes of this award.[8] The Michael L. Printz Award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association (ALA).[9]
- Non-fiction, fiction, poetry and anthologies are all eligible to receive the Printz Award.
- Books must have been published between January 1 and December 31 of the year preceding announcement of the award.
- Titles must be designated 'young adult' by its publisher or published for the age range that YALSA defines as "young adult," i.e., 12 through 18. Adult books are not eligible.
- Works of joint authorship or editorship are eligible.
- The award may be issued posthumously.
- Books previously published in another country are eligible (presuming an American edition has been published during the period of eligibility).
Recipients
The Printz Medal has been awarded to one person annually without exception in its first seventeen years, 2000–2016. No one has won it twice, though some authors have received both the medal and honor books.[10][11]
| Year | Author | Book | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Laura Ruby | Bone Gap | Winner |
| 2016 | Ashley Hope Pérez | Out of Darkness | Honor |
| 2016 | Marcus Sedgwick | The Ghosts of Heaven | Honor |
| 2015 | Jandy Nelson | I'll Give You the Sun | Winner |
| 2015 | Jessie Ann Foley | The Carnival at Bray | Honor |
| 2015 | Jenny Hubbard | And We Stay | Honor |
| 2015 | Andrew Smith | Grasshopper Jungle | Honor |
| 2015 | Mariko Tamaki | This One Summer | Honor |
| 2014 | Marcus Sedgwick | Midwinterblood | Winner |
| 2014 | Rainbow Rowell | Eleanor & Park | Honor |
| 2014 | Susann Cokal | Kingdom of Little Wounds | Honor |
| 2014 | Sally Gardner | Maggot Moon | Honor |
| 2014 | Clare Vanderpool | Navigating Early | Honor |
| 2013 | Nick Lake | In Darkness | Winner |
| 2013 | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Honor |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Wein | Code Name Verity | Honor |
| 2013 | Terry Pratchett | Dodger | Honor |
| 2013 | Beverley Brenna | The White Bicycle | Honor |
| 2012 | John Corey Whaley | Where Things Come Back | Winner |
| 2012 | Daniel Handler | Why We Broke Up | Honor |
| 2012 | Christine Hinwood | The Returning | Honor |
| 2012 | Craig Silvey | Jasper Jones | Honor |
| 2012 | Maggie Stiefvater | The Scorpio Races | Honor |
| 2011 | Paolo Bacigalupi | Ship Breaker | Winner |
| 2011 | Lucy Christopher | Stolen | Honor |
| 2011 | A.S. King | Please Ignore Vera Dietz | Honor |
| 2011 | Marcus Sedgwick | Revolver | Honor |
| 2011 | Janne Teller | Nothing | Honor |
| 2010 | Libba Bray | Going Bovine | Winner |
| 2010 | Deborah Heiligman | Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith | Honor |
| 2010 | Rick Yancey | The Monstrumologist | Honor |
| 2010 | Adam Rapp | Punkzilla | Honor |
| 2010 | John Barnes | Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 | Honor |
| 2009 | Melina Marchetta | Jellicoe Road | Winner |
| 2009 | M. T. Anderson | The Kingdom on the Waves (Octavian Nothing, Vol II) | Honor |
| 2009 | E. Lockhart | The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks | Honor |
| 2009 | Terry Pratchett | Nation | Honor |
| 2009 | Margo Lanagan | Tender Morsels | Honor |
| 2008 | Geraldine McCaughrean | The White Darkness | Winner |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Knox | Dreamquake | Honor |
| 2008 | Judith Clarke | One Whole and Perfect Day | Honor |
| 2008 | A. M. Jenkins | Repossessed | Honor |
| 2008 | Stephanie Hemphill | Your Own Sylvia | Honor |
| 2007 | Gene Luen Yang | American Born Chinese | Winner |
| 2007 | M. T. Anderson | The Pox Party (Octavian Nothing, Vol I) | Honor |
| 2007 | John Green | An Abundance of Katherines | Honor |
| 2007 | Sonya Hartnett | Surrender | Honor |
| 2007 | Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | Honor |
| 2006 | John Green | Looking for Alaska | Winner |
| 2006 | Margo Lanagan | Black Juice | Honor |
| 2006 | Markus Zusak | I Am the Messenger | Honor |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Partridge | John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography | Honor |
| 2006 | Marilyn Nelson | A Wreath for Emmett Till | Honor |
| 2005 | Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | Winner |
| 2005 | Kenneth Oppel | Airborn | Honor |
| 2005 | Allan Stratton | Chanda's Secrets | Honor |
| 2005 | Gary D. Schmidt | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Honor |
| 2004 | Angela Johnson | The First Part Last | Winner |
| 2004 | Jennifer Donnelly | A Northern Light | Honor |
| 2004 | Helen Frost | Keesha's House | Honor |
| 2004 | K. L. Going | Fat Kid Rules the World | Honor |
| 2004 | Carolyn Mackler | The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things | Honor |
| 2003 | Aidan Chambers | Postcards from No Man's Land | Winner |
| 2003 | Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion | Honor |
| 2003 | Garret Freymann-Weyr | My Heartbeat | Honor |
| 2003 | Jack Gantos | Hole in My Life | Honor |
| 2002 | An Na | A Step From Heaven | Winner |
| 2002 | Peter Dickinson | The Ropemaker | Honor |
| 2002 | Jan Greenberg | Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art | Honor |
| 2002 | Chris Lynch | Freewill | Honor |
| 2002 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | True Believer | Honor |
| 2001 | David Almond | Kit's Wilderness | Winner |
| 2001 | Carolyn Coman | Many Stones | Honor |
| 2001 | Carol Plum-Ucci | The Body of Christopher Creed | Honor |
| 2001 | Louise Rennison | Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging | Honor |
| 2001 | Terry Trueman | Stuck in Neutral | Honor |
| 2000 | Walter Dean Myers | Monster | Winner |
| 2000 | David Almond | Skellig | Honor |
| 2000 | Laurie Halse Anderson | Speak | Honor |
| 2000 | Ellen Wittlinger | Hard Love | Honor |
Multiple awards
To 2014, no writer has won two of the fifteen Printz Awards. David Almond, John Green, and Marcus Sedgwick have written one Award winner and one Honor Book. Four people have two Honor Books: M. T. Anderson, Margo Lanagan, Terry Pratchett and Markus Zusak.
Four writers have won both the Printz Award and the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians: David Almond, Aidan Chambers, Geraldine McCaughrean, and Meg Rosoff. Chambers alone has won both for the same book, the 1999 Carnegie and 2003 Printz for the novel Postcards from No Man's Land.[11][12] In its scope, books for children or young adults (published in the UK), the British Carnegie corresponds to the American Newbery and Printz awards.
See also
American Library Association awards
- Newbery Medal — the first children's literary award in the world, inaugurated 1922; after 1999 for American children's distinct from young-adult books
- Margaret A. Edwards Award for outstanding lifetime contribution to young-adult literature
References
- ^ "The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Library Association. (ALA). Retrieved 2012-04-20.
- ^ American Library Association announces 2016 youth media award winners
- ^ a b c Waddle, Linda. "The Association's Associations: YALSA Becomes Printz-Oriented. (Young Adult Library Services Association introduces Michael L. Printz Award) (Michael L. Printz Award) (Brief Article)". American Libraries 30.11 (Dec 1999): 7. Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Hennepin County Library. June 30, 2009.
- ^ Piper, Rachel (28 January 2015). "Brooke Young of the Printz Award Committee". Salt Lake City Weekly. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ^ Hunt, Jonathan (July 2009). "A Printz Retrospective". Horn Book Magazine. 85 (4): 395–403. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ^ American Libraries, March 1997, p. 76.
- ^ "The Michael L. Printz Award Policies and Procedures". YALSA. ALA. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
- ^ "YALSA Awards Youth Books." Education Technology News 17.3 (Feb 2, 2000): NA. Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Hennepin County Library. June 30, 2009.
- ^ "Teen books honored". Reading Today 24.2 (Oct-Nov 2006): 12(1). Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Hennepin County Library. June 30, 2009.
- ^ "American Library Association announces 2014 youth media award winners". ALA Press Release. January 27, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
- ^ a b "Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books". YALSA. ALA. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
- ^ "The Carnegie Medal: Full List of Winners". Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Retrieved 2014-02-06.
External links
- ALA Youth Media Awards
- YALSA's Teen Book Finder — free mobile app by ALA
