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The Michael L. Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". It is sponsored by Booklist magazine; administered by the ALA's young-adult division, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA); and named for the Topeka ...
These books have won the Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on literary merit". For biographies of winning writers see Category:Michael L. Printz Award winners.
For articles on winning works see Category:Michael L. Printz Award–winning works. The award was inaugurated in 2000 and there have been 25 winning works and 35 winning writers through 2024 (there have been two separate years where works with multiple authors have won, and A. S. King has won twice).
Long Way Down is a young adult novel in verse by Jason Reynolds, published October 24, 2017, by Atheneum Books.The book was longlisted for the National Book Award [1] and was named a Printz Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Book, and Newbery Medal Honor Book, [2] alongside other awards and positive reviews.
In 2020, Everything Sad Is Untrue received a Michael L. Printz Award for best book written for teens, [6] and was one of two honorees in the younger readers category for a Walter Dean Myers Award. [7] In 2021, the book received a Christopher Award in the young adult category, [8] and was a finalist for an Audie Award for Young Adult Title. [9]
It won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature [1] and the American Library Association named it a Printz Honor Book, one of four runners-up for the annual Michael L. Printz Award recognizing literary excellence in books for young adults. [2]
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In 2007, Schmidt released his award-winning book The Wednesday Wars. Four years later, in 2011, Schmidt released a companion novel, Okay For Now, followed by the third book of the series, Just Like That, in 2021. BookPage noted, "While each book can be read separately, overlapping characters and themes enrich each other in understated and often ...