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Michael L. Prinz Award Winners
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| Michael L. Prinz Award For Excellence in Young Adult Literature The Micheal L. Prinz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. This award is sponsored by the American Library Association. |
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2012 Whaley, John Corey Where Things Come Back Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance. |
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2011 Bacigalupi, Paolo Ship Breaker A tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor. |
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2010 Bray, Libba Going Bovine After being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, disaffected teenager Cameron Smith sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. |
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2009 Marchetta, Melina Jellicoe Road Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia. |
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2008 McCaughrean, Geraldine White Darkness When her uncle takes her on a dream trip to the Antarctic wilderness, Sym's obsession with Captain Oates and the doomed expedition becomes a reality as she herself is soon in a fight for her life in some the harshest terrain on the planet. |
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2007 Yang, Gene Luen American Born Chinese In an action-packed modern fable about the problems young Chinese Americans face when trying to participate in American popular culture, the lives of three apparently unrelated characters--Jin Wang, Monkey King, and Chin-Kee--come together with an unexpected twist. |
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2006 Green, John Looking for Alaska Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. |
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2005 Rosoff, Meg How I Live Now To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. |
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2004 Johnson, Angela The First Part Last Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. |
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2003 Chambers, Aidan Postcards from No Man's Land Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation. |
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2002 Na, An Step From Heaven Young Ju Park is unhappy with her journey to America as her family suffers hard times upon their arrival, yet when her father suddenly becomes violent, Young Ju is thankful when he leaves so that her family can start over. |
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2001 Almond, David Kit's Wilderness After moving to an old coal-mining town to tend to his elderly grandfather, Kit accepts an invitation from a new friend to play a dangerous game, venturing into the depths to reconnect with ancestors who had worked and died within its walls. |
