Award Winners: Printz

Yesterday was a big day for books! Pretty much every award given to Young Adult and Children's Literature was announced yesterday morning. You've probably read Caldecott and Newbery books for school, but did you know that there are also several categories about young adult books? One of these categories is called the Michael L. Printz Award. It honors literary excellence in young adult literature and has previously gone to these books you may recognize: Looking for Alaska by John Green, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, and Monster by Walter Dean Myers.

Here are this year's big winner and four honor books:

WINNER

Going Bovine
By Libba Bray

HONORS

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

by Deborah Heiligman

The Monstrumologist
by Rick Yancey

Punkzilla
by Adam Rapp

Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973
by John Barnes

Have you read any of these? Are there any books you loved that didn't win?
Want to know the other award-winning young adult books? Stay tuned to the MGPL Teen Zone Blog!