Michael L. Printz Award Young Adult Winners — Complete List (2000–2026)

• Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories by Cynthia Leitich Smith(ed.)

  2026Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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• Brownstone by Samuel Teerwith Mar Julia (illus.)

  2025Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  The Collectors: Stories by A. S. King(ed.), written by King,M. T. Anderson,E.E. Charlton-Trujillo,David Levithan,Cory McCarthy,Anna-Marie McLemore,Greg Neri,Jason Reynolds,Randy Ribay, andJenny Torres Sanchez

  2024Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

  2023Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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• Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

  2022Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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• Everything Sad Is Untrue(a true story) by Daniel Nayeri

  2021Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Dig by A. S. King

  2020Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

  2019Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

  2018Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  March: Book Three by John Lewis,Andrew Aydin, andNate Powell

  2017Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

  2016Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

  2015Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

  2014Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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• In Darkness by Nick Lake

  2013Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

  2012Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

  2011Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Going Bovine by Libba Bray

  2010Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

  2009Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

  2008Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

  2007Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Looking for Alaska by John Green

  2006Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

  2005Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

  2004Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers

  2003Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  A Step From Heaven by An Na

  2002Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Kit's Wilderness by David Almond

  2001Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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  Monster by Walter Dean Myers

  2000Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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