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The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

 

Printz Awards 2008 Award Winner

Book Cover The White Darkness
by McCaughrean, Geraldine
YA MCCAUGHREAN, G.

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.


Printz Honor Books2008 Honor Books

Book Cover Dreamquake : Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
by Knox, Elizabeth
YA KNOX, E.

Aided by her family and her creation, Nown, Laura investigates the powerful Regulatory Body's involvement in mysterious disappearances and activities and learns, in the process, the true nature of the Place in which dreams are found.



Book Cover One Whole and Perfect Day
by Judith Clarke
YA CLARKE, J.

As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.



Book Cover Repossessed
by A.M. Jenkins
YA JENKINS, A.

A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.


Book Cover Your Own, Sylvia : A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
by Stephanie Hemphill
YA 811.6 HEM

The author interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath.





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