The Michael L. Printz Award

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.

	2008	The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean
	2007	American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
	2006	Looking for Alaska by John Green
	2005	How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
	2004	The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
	2003	Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
	2002	Step from Heaven by An Na
	2001	Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
	2000	Monster by Walter Dean Myers