Annal:2001 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
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Results of the Michael L. Printz Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors.
- 2001 Printz winner
- 2000 Guardian Award shortlist
- 1999 Carnegie shortlist
- 2003 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
- Score: 26.51
The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit’s recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family had both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him to play a game called Death. As Kit’s grandfather provides stories of the mine’s past and the history of the Watson family, the boys search the mines to find the childhood ghosts of their long-gone ancestors.
- 2001 Printz honor
- 2000 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2000 NBA–Youth finalist
- Score: 18.51
Sixteen-year-old Berry Morgan lives with her mother in Rockville, Maryland, where her mother works as a reading tutor. Berry’s father, a lobbyist, lives in San Francisco with his girlfriend. He comes in and out of Berry’s life unpredictably. A year and a half ago, he showed up at her school with shocking news: Berry’s sister was dead. While working as a volunteer at a school in Capetown, South Africa, Laura had been brutally murdered. Now Berry sets out on a two-week trip to South Africa with her father to attend a memorial service for Laura. He has arranged some…
- 2001 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- 2001 Printz honor
- Score: 12.51
Chris Creed grew up as the class freak—the bullies’ punching bag. After he vanished, the weirdness that had once surrounded him began spreading. It was as if a darkness reached out of his void to grab at the most normal, happy people—like some twisted joke or demented form of justice. It tore the town apart. Sixteen-year-old Torey Adams’s search for answers opens his eyes to the lies, the pain, and the need to blame when tragedy strikes, and his once-safe world comes crashing down around him.
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
- 2001 Printz honor
- Score: 6.51
Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Likes to stalk Mr. and Mrs. Next Door’s poodle. I used to drag him around on a lead, but, as I explained to Mrs. Next Door, he ate it.
Thongs: Stupid underwear worn by old Swotty Knickers, Lindsay What’s the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell.
Full-Frontal Snogging: Kissing with the trimmings, lip to lip, open mouth, tongues…everything (apart from dribble, which is never acceptable). As taught…
- 2001 Printz honor
- Score: 6.51
Shawn McDaniel is an enigma and a miracle—except no one knows it, least of all his father. His life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. Not even those who love him best have any idea what he is truly like. In this extraordinary and powerful first novel, the reader learns to look beyond the obvious and finds a character whose spirit is rich beyond imagining and whose story is unforgettable.
My life is like one of those “good news-bad news” jokes. Like, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news—which do you want first?”
I could go on about my…
