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Literary Award Winners

Color Key:  Classics, Contemporary Realistic, Horror, Romance, Sci-fi and Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Historical and Westerns, Graphic Novel, Non-fiction
 
Printz Award Winners and Honor Books at the Library
 
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
 
Nation by Terry Pratchett
 
*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
 
*American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
 
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

 

*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

 

*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

 

*The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

 

A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly

 

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

 

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

 

*Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers

 

The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer

 

Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

 

*A Step From Heaven, by An Na

 

The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson

 

Freewill, by Chris Lynch

 

True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

 

*Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond

 

Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman

 

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

 

*Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

 

Skellig, by David Almond

 

Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

 

Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger