The Printz Prize

2016
Winner:  Laura Ruby Bone Gap  audiobook 2016

 Ashley Hope Pérez Out of Darkness Honor
Marcus Sedgwick The Ghosts of Heaven Honor

2015
Winner: Jandy Nelson I'll Give You the Sun 2016

 Jessie Ann Foley The Carnival at Bray 
 Jenny Hubbard And We Stay 
Andrew Smith Grasshopper Jungle  2016
Mariko Tamaki This One Summer


2014
Winner: Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell; 2016
Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal;  
MAGGOT MOON by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Julian Crouch;  
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

2013
Winner: In Darkness by Nick Lake

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz;
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein;  
Dodger by Terry Pratchett;  
The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna

2012
Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

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
Paolo Bacigalupi Ship Breaker  Winner

Lucy Christopher Stolen
A.S. King  Please Ignore Vera Dietz
Marcus Sedgwick Revolver
Janne Teller Nothing

2010
Libba Bray Going Bovine

Deborah Heiligman Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Rick Yancey The Monstrumologist
Adam Rapp Punkzilla
John Barnes Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973

2009
Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta 2016
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart  2016
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan

2008
The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean
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
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan
I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005
how i live now, by Meg Rosoff
Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004
The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson
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

2003
Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers
The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002
A Step From Heaven, by An Na
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
Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond
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 April 09
Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
Skellig, by David Almond April 09
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger