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Michael L. Printz Award 2013

Awards

Michael L. Printz Award 2013

The Michael L. Printz Award, established in 1999, honors excellence in literature written for young adults. The award-winning book may be fiction, nonfiction, poetry or an anthology and can be a work of joint authorship or editorship. Nominated books may have been previously published in another country, but must have been in the U.S. during the preceding year. The books must be designated by their publishers as either a young adult book or one published for ages 12 through 18. The award is named in honor of the late Michael L. Printz, longtime YALSA member and Topeka, Kansas, school librarian, known for discovering and promoting quality books for young adults.

-The winner of the Michael L. Printz Award is IN DARKNESS by Nick Lake.

-Four Printz Honor Books were named: ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE by Benjamin Alire Saenz, CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein, DODGER by Terry Pratchet, and THE WHITE BICYCLE by Beverly Brenna.

In Darkness by Nick Lake - Fiction
 
"Shorty" is a Haitian boy trapped among ruins when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by bodies and desperately weak, death seems imminent. But then he becomes aware of another presence --- one reaching out to him across 200 years of history. 
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz - Fiction
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - Historical Thriller

 

In 1943, a British spy plane crashes in Nazi France, leaving the passenger “Verity” to be captured by the Gestapo and her best friend, Maddie, behind. When Verity’s captors tell her to confess or be executed, she writes her confession page by page --- uncovering her past, how she became friends with Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wreck, desperately hoping to make it home.

Dodger by Terry Pratchett - Fantasy

 

Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl --- not even if her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England.

The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna - Fiction

 

Taylor Jane travels to the south of France where she spends a summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. Including flashbacks into Taylor's earliest memories, along with immediate scenes in Lourmarin, a picturesque village in the Luberon Valley, THE WHITE BICYCLE results in a journey for independence both personal and universal, told in Taylor's honest first-person prose.