Printz Award and Honor Books (aka Best Books for Young Adults)

The Michael L. Printz Award is an annual award given out by the ALA for the year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit."  I found this great list here, but have linked all the Winner and Honor books (2000-2012) so that you may browse.  Have fun!

2012 Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Honor Books: 
Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman
The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood
Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey
The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater

2011 Winner: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Honor Books: 
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Please Ignore Vera Dietz  by A.S. King
Revolver written by Marcus Sedgwick
Nothing written by Janne Teller

2010 Winner: Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Honor Books:
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

2009 Winner: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Honor Books:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

2008 Winner: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Honor Books: 
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill

2007 Winner: American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

Honor Books:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak  (RFS REVIEWED HERE AND HERE)

2006 Winner: Looking for Alaska, by John Green  (RFS reviewed HERE and HERE)

Honor Books:
Black Juice , by Margo Lanagan
I Am the Messenger , by Markus Zusak (RFS REVIEWED)
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography,  by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005 Winner: how i live now, by Meg Rosoff

Honor Books:

Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel

Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004 Winner: The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

Honor Books:

A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly

Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost

Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler (RFS REVIEWED)

2003 Winner: Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers

Honor Books:

The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer (RFS REVIEWED)

My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr

Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002 Winner: A Step From Heaven, by An Na

Honor Books:

The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson

Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg Abrams

Freewill, by Chris Lynch

True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001 Winner: Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond

Honor Books:

Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman

The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci

Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison

Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000 Winner: Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

Honor Books:

Skellig, by David Almond

Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson (RFS REVIEWED)

Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger