Annal:2003 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
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Results of the Michael L. Printz Award in the year 2003. 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.
- 2003 Printz winner
- 1999 Carnegie winner
- Score: 20.53
Seventeen-year-old backpacker Jacob Todd has come to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather, a soldier who died in a nearby town in World War II. He isn’t ready for the seductive assault the city launches on his senses. A stranger flirts with him in a café leaving him with this prophetic scribbled message: Nothing in Amsterdam is what it appears to be. In 1944, teenage Geertrui, living in occupied Holland, meets another Jacob Todd, an English soldier who must hide with her family after his battalion pulls out. In the midst of terrible danger, the two become lovers, linking their families in a way that resonates in the present.
- 2005 YRCA-Senior winner
- 2002 NBA–Youth winner
- 2003 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
- 2003 Newbery honor
- 2003 Printz honor
- Score: 38.55
At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks El Patrón’s bodyguard, “How old am I?…I know I don’t have a birthday like humans, but I was born.”
“You were harvested,” Tam Lin reminds him. “You were grown in that poor cow for nine months and then you were cut out of her.”
To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. A room full of chicken litter with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys is considered good enough for him. But for El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S. and what was…
- 2003 Printz honor
- Score: 6.53
Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. She is totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. “When you grow out of it,” James teases her, “you will break my heart.”
Ellen knows she”ll never outgrow it. She”ll always love James just the way she”ll always love Link. Then someone at school asks if Link and James might be in love with each…
- 2003 Printz honor
- 2003 Sibert honor
- Score: 12.53
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison.
In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the…
