Young Peoples' Book Awards - The Michael L. Printz Award in 2006 and 2016

1. YOUNG PEOPLES
BOOK AWARDS
2006-2016
Dong Suk Kim

2. The Michael L. Printz Award 2006
Winner: Looking for Alaska by John
Green
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
“Tired of his boring existence, 16-year-old Miles “Pudge” Halter heads off to
seek his Great Perhaps at an Alabama boarding school, where new-found
freedom, guilty pleasures and an enigmatic girl named Alaska hurl him into
life. First-time author John Green writes with intimacy, humor, and insight
about a world where intense friendship can lead to devastating loss,” says
Committee Chair Michael Cart.”

3. The Michael L. Printz Award 2006
Honour Books:
1) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
Genre: Horror Fiction/Fantasy
“In this extraordinary short story collection, human frailty is put to the
test by the relentless forces of dark and light, man and beast. Each
tale offers glimpses into familiar, shadowy worlds that push the
boundaries of the spirit and leave the mind haunted with the
knowledge that black juice runs through us all.”

4. The Michael L. Printz Award 2006
Honour Books:
2) I am the Messenger by Markust
Zusak
Genre: Fiction
“Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's
pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend,
Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman.
His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he
inadvertently stops a bank robbery.
That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.
That's when Ed becomes the messenger.

5. The Michael L. Printz Award 2006
Honour Books:
3) John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth
by Elizabeth Partridge
Genre: Biography
“Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Partridge dives into Lennon’s life
from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid on
Liverpool, deftly taking us through his turbulent childhood and his
rebellious rock’n’roll teens to his celebrated life writing, recording, and
performing music with the Beatles. She sheds light on the years after
the Beatles, with Yoko Ono, as he struggled to make sense of his own
artistic life—one that had turned from youthful angst to suffocating
fame in almost a split second.
Partridge chronicles the emotional highs and paralyzing lows Lennon
transformed into brilliant, evocative songs. With striking black-

6. The Michael L. Printz Award 2006
Honour Books:
4) A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn
Nelson (Illustrated by Phillippe Lardy)
Genre: Poetry
“In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till
was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly
whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder,
the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the
crime drew wide media attention.
Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate
helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr’s wreath, woven
from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to
speak out against modern-day injustices, to “speak what we see.”

7. The Michael L. Printz Award 2016
Winner: Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/Fantasy
“Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps
to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young,
beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t
surprised. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped
away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. Just a few years
before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a brand new guy,
a brand new life. That’s just how things go, the people said. Who are
you going to blame?
As we follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap—
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.”

8. The Michael L. Printz Award 2016
Honour Books:
1) The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus
Sedgwick
Genre: Short Stories/Essays
“Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The
Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner
Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred
stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries later, hiding in
the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who people call a
witch; there in the halls of a Long Island hospital at the beginning of the 20th
century, where a mad poet watches the oceans and knows the horrors it
hides; and there in the far future, as an astronaut faces his destiny on the
first spaceship sent from earth to colonize another world.
Each of the characters in these mysterious linked stories embarks on a
journey of discovery and survival; carried forward through the spiral of time,

9. The Michael L. Printz Award 2016
Honour Books:
2) Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope
Perez
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
“New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know
about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs
that mark them.
‘No Negroes, Mexicans, or dogs.’
They know the people who enforce them.
“They all decided they’d ride out in their sheets and pay Blue a visit.”
But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it
breaks through even the most entrenched colour lines. And the

10. Reference
 Yalsa. (2017a). 2006 Printz Award. Retrieved from
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/printzaward/previouswinners/06printz
 Yalsa. (2017b). 2016 Printz Award. Retrieved from
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz-award#current
 Goodreads. (2017a). Looking for Alaska. Retrieved from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99561.Looking_for_Alaska
 Goodreads. (2017b). I Am the Messenger. Retrieved from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19057.I_Am_the_Messenger
 Goodreads. (2017c). Black Juice. Retrieved from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497819.Black_Juice
 Goodreads. (2017d). John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth. Retrieved from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233906.John_Lennon

11. Reference
 Goodreads. (2017e). A Wreath for Emmett Till. Retrieved from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824499.A_Wreath_for_Emmett_Till
 Goodreads. (2017f). Bone Gap. Retrieved from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18806240-bone-gap
 Bookbrowse. (2017). The Ghosts of Heaven. Retrieved from
https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/10194
/the-ghosts-of-heaven
 Goodreads. (2017g). Out of Darkness. Retrieved from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25256386-out-of-darkness
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12. Reference
Image Reference
 Retrieved 12 January, 2017, from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99561.Looking_for_Alaska
 Retrieved 12 January, 2017, from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19057.I_Am_the_Messenger
 Retrieved 12 January, 2017, from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497819.Black_Juice
 Retrieved 13 January, 2017, from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233906.John_Lennon

13. Reference
 Retrieved 13 January, 2017, from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824499.A_Wreath_for_Emmett_Till
 Retrieved 13 January, 2017, from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18806240-bone-gap
 Retrieved 13 January, 2017, from
https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/10194
/the-ghosts-of-heaven
 Retrieved 13 January, 2017, from
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25256386-out-of-darkness