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Looking for Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. -
Maggot Moon
In Sally Gardner's explosively original dystopian novel, Standish Treadwell and his grandfather show quiet defiance in the face of the oppressive, merciless Motherland. The cleverly parallel illustrations highlight a story as offbeat and perceptive as Standish and his mismatched eyes.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014, Michael L. Printz Award 2014
- ISBN: 9780763665531
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Many Stones
On a two-week pilgrimage to South Africa from Rockville, Maryland, 16-year-old Berry and her estranged father attempt to come to terms with the murder, a year earlier, of Berry's sister Laura when she was volunteering at a Capetown school. Angry, sour, and ferociously cynical, Berry struggles with the concept of "truth and reconciliation," both for South Africa and in her personal life.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2001
- ISBN: 9781608981366
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Midwinterblood
Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined.
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Monster
While waiting for his trial, Steve Harmon recounts the events that lead to his arrest.
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The Monstrumologist
Will Henry is the assistant to the Monstrumologist, Dr. Warthrop. Together they encounter the Anthropophagi, horrible human eating creatures. Set in the 1800's, this richly descriptive horror tale is vivid and .- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2010
- ISBN: 9781416984481
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My Heartbeat
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2003
- ISBN: 9780547722054
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Nation
Pratchett's trademark humor leavens this epic tale of ravaged islands, shipwrecked nobles and survival.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2009
- ISBN: 9780061433030
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Navigating Early
Jack Baker, uprooted suddenly after his mother's death, and Early Auden, the strangest of boys, meet at a Maine boarding school. Their friendship culminates in a treacherous quest and unexpected self-discovery. Vanderpool delivers an emotionally powerful novel in an untamed setting as the boys head up river in search of the Great Appalachian Bear. The award, first given in 2000, is named for the late Michael L. Printz, a Topeka, Kan., school librarian known for discovering and promoting quality books for young adults.- Historical Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014, Michael L. Printz Award 2014
- ISBN: 9780385742092
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A Northern Light
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
- Horror, Thriller
- Thrillers & Killers
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2011, Michael L. Printz Award 2004
- ISBN: 9780152053109
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Nothing
When a classmate tells them “nothing matters,” his peers reinforce the opposite, sacrificing what matters to them in progressively intense challenges, assembling a pile of meaning. -
One Whole and Perfect Day
As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2008
- ISBN: 9781932425956
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Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Grimes' verse memoir traces her development through a tumultuous childhood as she finds her voice as a powerful storyteller. Themes of family, belonging, and identity combine to tell a story of faith and resilience.- Nonfiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2020
- ISBN: 9781629798813
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Out of Darkness
In 1937 East Texas, Mexican American Naomi and African American Wash begin a bittersweet romance. Perez's beautifully crafted novel is a moving portrayal of both powerful love and a period marked by oppressive, destructive racism.- Historical Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Michael L. Printz Award 2016
- ISBN: 9781467742023
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The Passion of Dolssa
In thirteenth-century Provence, Dolssa, branded a heretic after claiming to speak with God, flees her hometown. She's rescued by Botille, a matchmaker who runs a tavern with her sisters. Their lives become inexorably linked when Dolssa's gifts as a healer- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2017, Michael L. Printz Award 2017
- ISBN: 9780451469922
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name. -
The Poet X
Xiomara secretly creates poetry to explore her shifting relationship with her Dominican immigrant parents, religion, her body, and chemistry lab partner/crush Aman. -
Postcards from No Man's Land
Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2003
- ISBN: 9780525468639
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Punkzilla
Punkzilla is on a mission to see his older brother P, before P dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2010
- ISBN: 9780763652975
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Repossessed
A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2008
- ISBN: 9780060835705
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The Returning
A large cast of characters from two fictional kingdoms recover from a drawn-out, brutal war in a portrait both sweeping and specific as it explores the ramifications of the conflict on Cam, the only one who lives to return to his village.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2012
- ISBN: 9780803735286
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Revolver
Sig is alone with his father's body when the lawless man his father had managed to escape appears out of the icy wilderness.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011, Michael L. Printz Award 2011
- ISBN: 9781596435926
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The Ropemaker
When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2002
- ISBN: 9780385729215
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The Scorpio Races
Every November, the beaches of Thisby come alive with the Scorpio Races. The water horses are vicious, the terrain is treacherous, and death is likely, but the reward can be beyond anything you could imagine. Puck Connolly is racing for her family, Sean Kendrick for his passion—but only one can win The Scorpio Races. -
Scythe
Humanity has overcome hunger, disease, war, and even death. Now only Scythes can take life. What will happen to Citra and Rowan when they are chosen to be Scythe apprentices? Follow them as they struggle with their task and morality. -
Ship Breaker
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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Skellig
A boy discovers a fragile, mysterious winged being sheltered in his garage in Skellig, edited by Lawrence David, and tries to help coping with anxiety and grief about his baby sister's critical illness.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2000
- ISBN: 9780440416029
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Speak
Melinda, a teenage outcast at school, works through her trauma to find her voice.
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A Step from Heaven
America is no paradise.
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Stolen
Gemma, 16, writes to the young man who kidnapped her and held her captive in the Australian outback, revealing the complexity of her feelings for both Ty and the land.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011, Michael L. Printz Award 2011
- ISBN: 9780545170932
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Strange the Dreamer
Lazlo Strange is an orphan raised by monks, and he's dedicated his life to learning. His favorite story is of Weep, the lost fairytale city that was literally removed from memory. This is the story of his search for the magical city.- Fantasy, Mystery
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2018, Michael L. Printz Award 2018
- ISBN: 9780316341684
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Stuck in Neutral
In Stuck in Neutral, the good news is that despite his severe cerebral palsy, Shawn's life is rich and filled with the joys of BBQ potato chips, television, and incredible dreams. The bad news? His father may be trying to kill him. Through the voice of Shawn, Trueman takes the reader to a new place: inside the mind of a joyful spirit trapped in an uncontrollable body.- Realistic Fiction
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2010, Michael L. Printz Award 2001
- ISBN: 9780064472135
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The Sun is Also a Star
Natasha and Daniel are polar opposites - Tasha believes in reason, science, and things that can be proven. Daniel is a poet at heart and believes in Fate, the "meant to be," and true love. When circumstances beyond their control force them together, they have exactly one day - one day to stop Tasha's family from being deported, one day for Daniel to realize that doing what's expected of you doesn't mean you should do it. And above all else, one day to fall in love. -
Surrender
As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan.
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Tales from the Madman Underground
In an attempt to distance himself from the rest of the students in the school's therapy group known as the Madman Underground, Karl launches his senior year with "Operation Be Fucking Normal."- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2010
- ISBN: 9780670060818
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Tender Morsels
Liga, a young woman who had endured unspeakable anguish, is magically whisked away to a fantasy realm to raise her daughters in peace. But as her daughters grow, the cracks between their fantasy life and the real world begin to show and all three woman must make a choice about what world they want to live in. Retelling of Snow White and Rose Red.
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This One Summer
Rose loves the lake house getaway where she can hang out with her friend Windy. This year she needs a distraction from her parents' constant fighting and starts following a group of teens that has some serious drama.- Graphic Novel
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2015, Michael L. Printz Award 2015
- ISBN: 9781626720947
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True Believer
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2002
- ISBN: 9780689828270
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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Inspired by the more than 700 letters the van Gogh brothers wrote to each other, Heiligman uncovers fresh insights into Vincent's development as an artist and his relationship with the brother who supported him emotionally and financially throughout his life- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2018, Michael L. Printz Award 2018
- ISBN: 9780805093391
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We Are Okay
Marin has isolated herself in icy New York over winter break rather than confronting the devastating memories she ran from in San Francisco. But when her best friend flies cross-country to be with her, Marin discovers that the only way to move beyond grief is to face it head-on.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2018, Michael L. Printz Award 2018
- ISBN: 9780525425892
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Where the World Ends
In 1727, a group of men and boys from St. Kilda sail to a remote sea stack on a fowling trip, only to find themselves stranded. McCaughrean's exceptional tale evokes the harsh beauty of its setting and the warm humor of its characters.- Historical Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2020
- ISBN: 9781250225498
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Where Things Come Back
Witty, sardonic Cullen Witter agonizes over the disappearance of his beloved brother, Gabriel, while everyone else in his stiflingly dull Arkansas town thrills to the apparent return of a long-extinct woodpecker. Kidnapping, bromance, arcane religious texts, and ornithology collide in this ground-breaking coming-of-age tale.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012, Michael L. Printz Award 2012
- ISBN: 9781442413337
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The White Bicycle
A summer spent as a “personal care assistant” in the French countryside turns into a journey of self-realization and independence as 19-year-old Taylor Jane, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tells in her own distinctive voice how she has the skills and heart to live life on her own terms.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014, Michael L. Printz Award 2013
- ISBN: 9780889954830
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The White Darkness
Fourteen-year-old Symone's exciting vacation to Antarctica turns into a desperate struggle for survival when her uncle's obsessive quest leads them across the frozen wilderness into danger. McCaughrean has won numerous awards for children's literature in her native England. Celebrated for her novels, picture books and folklore adaptations, The White Darkness is her first contemporary young adult novel. Symone's unforgettable voice propels this journey of discovery in a book that is intricately plotted, richly imaged and brings new meaning to the term unreliable narrator, said Printz Award Committee Chair Lynn Rutan. Readers will need to hang onto their snow goggles in this compelling book in which nothing is as it seems at first glance.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2008
- ISBN: 9780060890377
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Why We Broke Up
In this beautiful piece of bookmaking, heartbroken movie obsessive Min Green dumps a box of relationship ephemera on ex-love Ed Slaterton's porch, each item attached to a raging, loving, insecure and regretful letter explaining how each memento contributed to their breakup.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012, Michael L. Printz Award 2012
- ISBN: 9780316127257
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A Wreath for Emmett Till
Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. 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. Newbery Honor-winning poet Nelson offers an evocative tribute to a 14-year-old boy whose lynching in 1955 helps spark the civil rights movement.- Nonfiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2006
- ISBN: 9780618397525
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Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
The author interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath
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