Michael L. Printz Award – The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.   2008 Winner – The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. 2008 Honor Books Judith Clarke  One Whole and Perfect Day Stephanie Hemphill  Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath A.M. Jenkins  Repossessed Elizabeth Knox  Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet   2007 Winner – American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.   2007 Honor Books M.T. Anderson  The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; V. 1, The Pox Party John Green  An Abundance of Katherines Sonya Hartnett  Surrender Markus Zusak  The Book Thief   2006 Winner – Looking For Alaska by John Green 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.   2006 Honor Books Margo Lanagan  Black Juice Marilyn Nelson  A Wreath For Emmett Till Elizabeth Partridge  John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth, A Photographic Biography Markus Zusak  I am the Messenger   2005 Winner –  how i live now by Meg Rosoff 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 devastating the land.   2005 Honor Books Kenneth Oppel  Airborn Gary D. Schmidt  Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Allan Stratton  Chanda's Secrets   2004 Winner –  The First Part Last by Angela Johnson Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.   2004 Honor Books Jennifer Donnelly  A Northern Light Helen Frost  Keesha's House K.L. Going  Fat Kid Rules the World Carolyn Mackler  The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things   2003 Winner –  Postcards From No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers The story of 17-year-old Jacob's visit to Amsterdam to learn about his soldier grandfather's life there during World War II is told in alternating chapters with the actual story of his grandfather's adventures.   2003 Honor Books Nancy Farmer  The House of the Scorpion Jack Gantos  Hole in My Life Garret Freymann-Weyr  My Heartbeat   2002 Winner – A Step From Heaven by An Na A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.   2002 Honor Books Peter Dickinson  The Ropemaker Jan Greenberg  Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art Chris Lynch  Freewill Virginia Euwer Wolff  True Believer   2001 Winner – Kit's Wilderness by David Almond Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.   2001 Honor Books Carolyn Coman  Many Stones Carol Plum-Ucci  The Body of Christopher Creed Louise Rennison  Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson Terry Trueman  Stuck in Neutral   2000 Winner – Monster by Walter Dean Myers While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.   2000 Honor Books David Almond  Skellig Laurie Halse Anderson  Speak Ellen Wittlinger  Hard Love