Northwest Regional Library

Printz Medal Winners
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 sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

2010 Award Winner

Going Bovine

 by Libba Bray

 Published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House.

Cameron, a sixteen-year-old slacker, sets off on a madcap road trip along with a punk angel, a dwarf sidekick, a yard gnome and a mad scientist to save the world and perhaps his own life.

2010 Printz Honor Books:

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith

by Deborah Heiligman

Published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
 
Once Charles Darwin sets his rational mind to marry the religious Emma Wedgeworth, they both must take a leap of faith in order to build a life together.

The Monstrumologist, by Rick Yancey

Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.
 
Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a monstrumologist, races against time to save his town (and himself) from the anthropophagi, a pod of monstrous creatures who prey on humans.

Punkzilla, by Adam Rapp

Published by Candlewick Press.

Fourteen-year-old runaway Jamie, homeless and strung out, embarks on a harrowing journey to reach his dying brother.

Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973, by John Barnes

Published by Viking Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Young Reader’s Group.

Karl Shoemaker wants to begin his senior year with a new identity separate from his counseling group, his alcoholic mother and the legacy of his dead father.

  2009 Printz Winner
Jellicoe Road

 By Marchetta, Melina

2008 Printz Winner
The White Darkness : a Novel

By McCaughrean, Geraldine