Printz Project

Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

November 22, 2009

Title: Monster Author: Walter Dean Myers Pages: 281 Publisher: Amistad Copyright: 1999 Format: Paperback Rating: ____________________________ Monster won the Printz Award in 2000 – the very first winner of the award. So, of course, this counts for the Printz Project! From the publisher: Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder. A Harlem drugstore owner [...]

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The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean

November 21, 2009

Title: The White Darkness Author: Geraldine McCaughrean Pages: 369 Publisher: HarperTeen Copyright: 2006 Format: Paperback Rating: ____________________________ I picked up this book from Amazon because it won the Printz Award in 2008. So, it obviously counts for the Printz Project! From the publisher: I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while [...]

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How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff

September 7, 2009

Title: How I Live Now Author: Meg Rosoff Pages: 194 Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Copyright: 2004 Format: Paperback Rating: ____________________________ How I Live Now won the Printz medal in 2005. I read this book for the Printz Project (which I co-host with Suey), the Book Awards Challenge, and the YA Challenge. When Daisy couldn’t take [...]

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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart

July 21, 2009

Title: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Author: E. Lockhart Pages: 352 Publisher: Hyperion Books Copyright: 2008 Format: Hardback Rating: ____________________________ This book won the 2008-9 Cybils Award for Young Adult Fiction and was a 2009 Printz Award honor book. From the back cover: Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club. Her father’s “bunny rabbit.” [...]

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Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

April 29, 2009

Title: Speak Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Pages: 198 Publisher: Penguin Group Copyright: 1999 Format: Paperback Rating: ____________________________ Melinda Sordino is a social pariah. She called the cops in the middle of a summer party – the death of her social life and the end of a traumatic event. She’s just started her freshman year of [...]

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The Printz Project

April 9, 2009

The Michael L. Printz Award is an award given by the ALA to books that exemplify excellence in young adult literature. I’ve been doing the “Printz Project” for a while now. I’ve been listing it as one of my challenges, just like the official Pulitzer Project and the official Newbery Project. I’ve never been able [...]

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American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

March 23, 2009

Title: American Born Chinese Author: Gene Luen Yang Pages: 240 Publisher: First Second Copyright: 2006 Format: Paperback Rating: ____________________________ American Born Chinese won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2007. That is how it found its way onto my reading list – for the Printz Project. Having read (and loved) two of the honor books [...]

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An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green

October 20, 2008

An Abundance of Katherines is one of the most charming books I’ve read all year. I loved Looking for Alaska, Green’s first novel, and was not disappointed by his second. An Abundance of Katherines was a 2007 Printz honor book. Colin Singleton, washed up child prodigy, has dated and been dumped by nineteen Katherines. Katherine [...]

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