The Michael L. Printz Award is given yearly to the book that best shows excellence in young adult literature. Each year one winner and four honor books are named. The award has been given every year since 2000.

This year's winner is Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta.

The honor books this year are M.T. Anderson's The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume II, E. Lockhart's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, Terry Pratchett's Nation, and Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels.

Previous Winners:

2008: The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean

2007: American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

2006: Looking for Alaska, by John Green

2005: how i live now, by Meg Rosoff

2004: The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

2003: Postcards from No Man's Land, by Aidan Chambers

2002: Step From Heaven, by An Na

2001: Kit's Wilderness, by David Almond

2000: Monster, by Walter Dean Myers