Michael L. Printz Award
Recipients
The Printz Medal has been awarded to one person annually without exception in its first nineteen years, 2000–2018. No one has won it twice, though some authors have received both the medal and honor books.

Michael L. Printz Award

Section Title: Recipients
Table Section Text: The Printz Medal has been awarded to one person annually without exception in its first nineteen years, 2000–2018. No one has won it twice, though some authors have received both the medal and honor books.

Year	Author	Book	Citation

2019	Elizabeth Acevedo	The Poet X	Winner

2019	Elana K. Arnold	Damsel	Honor

2019	Deb Caletti	A Heart in a Body in the World	Honor

2019	Mary McCoy	I, Claudia	Honor

2018	Nina LaCour	We Are Okay	Winner

2018	Angie Thomas	The Hate U Give	Honor

2018	Jason Reynolds	Long Way Down	Honor

2018	Laini Taylor	Strange the Dreamer	Honor

2018	Deborah Heiligman	Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers	Honor

2017	John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell	March: Book Three	Winner

2017	Louise O'Neill	Asking for It	Honor

2017	Julie Berry	The Passion of Dolssa	Honor

2017	Neal Shusterman	Scythe	Honor

2017	Nicola Yoon	The Sun Is Also a Star	Honor

2016	Laura Ruby	Bone Gap	Winner

2016	Ashley Hope Pérez	Out of Darkness	Honor

2016	Marcus Sedgwick	The Ghosts of Heaven	Honor

2015	Jandy Nelson	I'll Give You the Sun	Winner

2015	Jessie Ann Foley	The Carnival at Bray	Honor

2015	Jenny Hubbard	And We Stay	Honor

2015	Andrew Smith	Grasshopper Jungle	Honor

2015	Mariko Tamaki	This One Summer	Honor

2014	Marcus Sedgwick	Midwinterblood	Winner

2014	Rainbow Rowell	Eleanor & Park	Honor

2014	Susann Cokal	Kingdom of Little Wounds	Honor

2014	Sally Gardner	Maggot Moon	Honor

2014	Clare Vanderpool	Navigating Early	Honor

2013	Nick Lake	In Darkness	Winner

2013	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe	Honor

2013	Elizabeth Wein	Code Name Verity	Honor

2013	Terry Pratchett	Dodger	Honor

2013	Beverley Brenna	The White Bicycle	Honor

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

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Elizabeth Acevedo won the Printz Award (2019) for The Poet X.
In 2019, Elizabeth Acevedo won the Printz Award for The Poet X.
Elizabeth Acevedo won the 20th Printz Award (2019) for The Poet X.

final_sentence: Elizabeth Acevedo won the Printz Award (2019) for The Poet X.
final_sentence: In 2019, Elizabeth Acevedo won the Printz Award for The Poet X.
final_sentence: Elizabeth Acevedo won the 20th Printz Award (2019) for The Poet X.