Printz Award 2018

WE ARE OKAY By Nina LaCour Published by Dutton Books for Young Readers -- an imprint of Penguin Young Readers -- Nina LaCour's We Are Okay has won the 2018 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. "In luminous, spare prose, LaCour folds literary and artistic references into an intimate, haunting story of betrayal and grief,” said Printz Award Committee Chair Angela Carstensen. You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles...

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