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Michael L. Printz Award 2016

Awards

Michael L. Printz Award 2016

The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

 

 

-The winner of the Michael L. Printz Award is BONE GAP by Laura Ruby.
 
- Two Printz Honor Books also were named:OUT OF DARKNESS by Ashley Hope Pérez and THE GHOSTS OF HEAVEN by Marcus Sedgwick.
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby - Mystery/Fantasy/Romance

April 26, 2016


BONE GAP is the story of Roza, a beautiful girl who is taken from a quiet midwestern town and imprisoned by a mysterious man, and Finn, the only witness, who cannot forgive himself for being unable to identify her kidnapper. As we follow them through their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures, acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a heartbreaking tale of love and loss, magic and mystery, regret and forgiveness --- a story about how the face the world sees is never the sum of who we are.

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez - Historical Fiction

September 1, 2015


New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion, the worst school disaster in American history, as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family and the forces that destroy people.

The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick - Young Adult Fiction

October 25, 2016