Michael L. Printz Award

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". While many of these do not match the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror focus of Worlds Without End, a few do - they are highlighted below.


2013

Winner: In Darkness by Nick Lake

Honor Books: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein;  Dodger by Terry Pratchett; The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna

2012

Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Honor Books: Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman; The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood; Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey; The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater

2011

Winner: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Honor Books: Stolen by Lucy Christopher, Please Ignore Vera Dietz  by A.S. King, Revolver written by Marcus Sedgwick,Nothing written by Janne Teller

2010

Winner: Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Honor Books: Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman, The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey, Punkzilla by Adam Rapp, Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes

2009

Winner:Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Honor Books: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, Nation by Terry Pratchett, Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

2008

Winner: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Honor Books:  Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox, One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke, Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins, Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill

2007

Winner: American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

Honor Books: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson, An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green, Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006

Winner: Looking for Alaska, by John Green

Honor Books: Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan, I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak, John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography,  by Elizabeth Partridge, A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005

Winner: How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff

Honor Books: Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel, Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004

Winner: The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

Honor Books:A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly, Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost, Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going, The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003

Winner: Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers

Honor Books: The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr, Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002

Winner:A Step From Heaven, by An Na

Honor Books: The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson, Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg Abrams, Freewill, by Chris Lynch, True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001

Winner: Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond

Honor Books: Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman, The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci, Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison, Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000

Winner: Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

Honor Books: Skellig, by David Almond, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger