I have been missing on reading these days due to personal commitments.
Hence, I have been thinking of taking up some reading projects which will help me read some quality books considering the time constraint.
These are relatively new awards and suit my reading preferences. So here is the new addition to my blog and reading. Welcome !
From Wikipedia
The Michael L. Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the “best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit”.
The Printz Project is hosted by Suey and Jessica.There is no time constraint to read all the books. Please click on the link to have a look.
| Year | Author | Book | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | John Corey Whaley | Where Things Come Back | Winner |
| 2012 | Daniel Handler | Why We Broke Up | Honor |
| 2012 | Christine Hinwood | The Returning | Honor |
| 2012 | Craig Silvey | Jasper Jones | Honor |
| 2012 | Maggie Stiefvater | The Scorpio Races | Honor |
| 2011 | Paolo Bacigalupi | Ship Breaker | Winner |
| 2011 | Lucy Christopher | Stolen | Honor |
| 2011 | A. S. King | Please Ignore Vera Dietz | Honor |
| 2011 | Marcus Sedgwick | Revolver | Honor |
| 2011 | Janne Teller | Nothing | Honor |
| 2010 | Libba Bray | Going Bovine | Winner |
| 2010 | Deborah Heiligman | Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith | Honor |
| 2010 | Rick Yancey | The Monstrumologist | Honor |
| 2010 | Adam Rapp | Punkzilla | Honor |
| 2010 | John Barnes | Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 | Honor |
| 2009 | Melina Marchetta | Jellicoe Road | Winner |
| 2009 | M. T. Anderson | The Kingdom on the Waves (Octavian Nothing, Vol II) | Honor |
| 2009 | E. Lockhart | The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks | Honor |
| 2009 | Terry Pratchett | Nation | Honor |
| 2009 | Margo Lanagan | Tender Morsels | Honor |
| 2008 | Geraldine McCaughrean | The White Darkness | Winner |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Knox | Dreamquake | Honor |
| 2008 | Judith Clarke | One Whole and Perfect Day | Honor |
| 2008 | A. M. Jenkins | Repossessed | Honor |
| 2008 | Stephanie Hemphill | Your Own Sylvia | Honor |
| 2007 | Gene Luen Yang | American Born Chinese | Winner |
| 2007 | M. T. Anderson | The Pox Party (Octavian Nothing, Vol I) | Honor |
| 2007 | John Green | An Abundance of Katherines | Honor |
| 2007 | Sonya Hartnett | Surrender | Honor |
| 2007 | Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | Honor |
| 2006 | John Green | Looking for Alaska | Winner |
| 2006 | Margo Lanagan | Black Juice | Honor |
| 2006 | Markus Zusak | I Am the Messenger | Honor |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Partridge | John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography | Honor |
| 2006 | Marilyn Nelson | A Wreath for Emmett Till | Honor |
| 2005 | Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | Winner |
| 2005 | Kenneth Oppel | Airborn | Honor |
| 2005 | Allan Stratton | Chanda’s Secrets | Honor |
| 2005 | Gary D. Schmidt | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Honor |
| 2004 | Angela Johnson | The First Part Last | Winner |
| 2004 | Jennifer Donnelly | A Northern Light | Honor |
| 2004 | Helen Frost | Keesha’s House | Honor |
| 2004 | K. L. Going | Fat Kid Rules the World | Honor |
| 2004 | Carolyn Mackler | The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things | Honor |
| 2003 | Aidan Chambers | Postcards from No Man’s Land | Winner |
| 2003 | Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion | Honor |
| 2003 | Garret Freymann-Weyr | My Heartbeat | Honor |
| 2003 | Jack Gantos | Hole in My Life | Honor |
| 2002 | An Na | A Step From Heaven | Winner |
| 2002 | Peter Dickinson | The Ropemaker | Honor |
| 2002 | Jan Greenberg | Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art | Honor |
| 2002 | Chris Lynch | Freewill | Honor |
| 2002 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | True Believer | Honor |
| 2001 | David Almond | Kit’s Wilderness | Winner |
| 2001 | Carolyn Coman | Many Stones | Honor |
| 2001 | Carol Plum-Ucci | The Body of Christopher Creed | Honor |
| 2001 | Louise Rennison | Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging | Honor |
| 2001 | Terry Trueman | Stuck in Neutral | Honor |
| 2000 | Walter Dean Myers | Monster | Winner |
| 2000 | David Almond | Skellig | Honor |
| 2000 | Laurie Halse Anderson | Speak | Honor |
| 2000 | Ellen Wittlinger | Hard Love | Honor |
*Table Source Wikipedia

Of the books on the list that I’ve read, I really enjoyed them all! So I think this is a great project – I bet the others are really fantastic, too
I bet they are good.
Thanks for stopping by aarti