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• The Collectors

  Stories

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  2024 Printz Winner. This collection of 10 expertly crafted—and uniquely weird—short stories for teens highlights that only when we break conventions can we discover our authentic selves.

• All My Rage

  Tahir, Sabaa,

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  2023 Printz Winner. Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Firekeeper's Daughter

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  2022 Printz Winner. Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.

• Everything Sad Is Untrue

  (a True Story)

  Nayeri, Daniel,

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  2021 Printz Winner. At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dig.

  King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970-

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  2020 Printz Winner. Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.

• The Poet X

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  2019 Printz Winner. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

• We Are Okay

  LaCour, Nina,

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  2018 Printz Winner. After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.

• March. Book Three

  Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-

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  2017 Printz Winner. Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bone Gap

  Ruby, Laura,

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  2016 Printz Winner. Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'll Give You the Sun

  Nelson, Jandy,

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  2015 Printz Winner. A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah.

• Midwinterblood

  Sedgwick, Marcus,

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  2014 Printz Winner. Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited--throughout various time periods--by Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant.

• In Darkness

  Lake, Nick,

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  2013 Printz Winner. In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where Things Come Back

  a Novel

  Whaley, John Corey

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  2012 Printz Winner. Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ship Breaker

  Bacigalupi, Paolo,

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  2011 Printz Winner. A tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor.

• Going Bovine

  Bray, Libba

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  2010 Printz Winner. Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jellicoe Road

  Marchetta, Melina, 1965-

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  2009 Printz Winner. Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

• The White Darkness

  a Novel

  McCaughrean, Geraldine

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  2008 Printz Winner. When her uncle takes her on a dream trip to the Antarctic wilderness, Sym's obsession with Captain Oates and the doomed expedition becomes a reality as she herself is soon in a fight for her life in some the harshest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Born Chinese

  Yang, Gene Luen

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  2007 Printz Winner. Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.

• Looking for Alaska

  Green, John, 1977-

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  2006 Printz Winner. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

• How I Live Now

  Rosoff, Meg

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  2005 Printz Winner. To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while…Read moreRead more of this annotation