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The Printz Award: Excellence in Young Adult Literature

The Printz Award: Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Presented by Elizabeth Abed. What is the Printz Award?. Based on literary merit, it honors the best book written for teens each year. The Printz Committee also names up to four honor books.

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The Printz Award: Excellence in Young Adult Literature

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  1. The Printz Award: Excellence in Young Adult Literature Presented by Elizabeth Abed

  2. What is the Printz Award? Based on literary merit, it honors the best book written for teens each year. The Printz Committee also names up to four honor books. The awards announcement is made at the ALA Midwinter Meeting as part of the Youth Media Awards and is celebrated at the ALA Annual Conference. Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association, sponsors the Printz Award. Established in 1999

  3. Who Was Michael L. Printz? A school librarian in Topeka, Kansas A marketing consultant for Econo-Clad An active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Served on the Best Books for Young Adults Committee and the Margaret A. Edwards Award Committee

  4. The Printz Award Committee Committee size: 9 – a chair, eight members, a consultant from the staff of Booklist, and an administrative assistant if requested Members serve 17-month terms.

  5. Eligibility The award-winning book may be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or an anthology. Books must have been published the year preceding announcement of the award. A title must have been designated by its publisher as being either a young adult book or one published for ages 12 through 18. Titles that are self-published are not eligible.

  6. Selection Criteria Popularity is not the criterion for this award, although they hope the award winner will have a wide audience of ages 12-18. Controversy is not something to avoid. In fact, they want a book that readers will talk about. Diversity is honored. What they are looking for – LITERARY EXCELLENCE Suggested guidelines: story, voice, style, setting, accuracy, characters, theme, illustrations, design Field nominations are encouraged. An official form is available on the ALA website.

  7. 2013 Printz Award Winner Fifteen-year-old Shorty awakens beneath the ruins of a crumbled hospital in Haiti, where his weakening mind begins flashing back through his own violent history, the loss of his twin sister, and his mystical connection to Toussaint Louverture, the nineteenth-century revolutionary who helped liberate his country.

  8. 2013 Printz Honor Books Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin AlireSáenz Dodger by Terry Pratchett

  9. Printz Award Winners/Honors I Have Read 2004 Honor Book Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going 2007 WinnerAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, 2000 Honor Book How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 2005 Winner

  10. References American Library Association (2013). The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz The Horn Book (2013). Reviews of the 2013 Printz award winners. Retrieved from http://www.hbook.com/2013/01/news/awards/reviews-of-the-2013-printz-award-winners/ Silverman, Karyn (2013). School Library Journal. More on the awards. Retrieved from http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/2013/02/03/more-on-the-awards/

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