 | Michael L. Printz Award Winners |
| The Michael L. Printz Award is an annual award given to 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 (YALSA) of the American Library Association (ALA). | |
| 2012 | Where Things Come Back. By John Corey Whaley. | Teen Room |
| 2011 | Ship Breaker. By Paolo Bacigalupi. | Y Bacigalupi |
| 2010 | Going Bovine. By Libba Bray. | Teen Room |
| 2009 | Jellicoe Road. By Melina Marchetta. | Teen Room |
| 2008 | The White Darkness. By Geraldine McCaughrean. | Teen Room |
| 2007 | American Born Chinese. By Gene Luen Yang. | Teen Room |
| 2006 | Looking for Alaska. By John Green. | Teen Room |
| 2005 | How I Live Now. By Meg Rosoff. | Teen Room |
| 2004 | The First Part Last. By Angela Johnson. | Y Johnson |
| 2003 | Postcards from No Man's Land. By Aidan Chambers. | Teen Room |
| 2002 | A Step from Heaven. By An Na. | Y Na |
| 2001 | Kit's Wilderness. By David Almond. | Y Almond |
| 2000 | Monster. By Walter Dean Myers. | Y Myers |
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