Printz Award 2021

  Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story) By Daniel Nayeri Winner of the 2021 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in Young Adult Literature is Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad is Untrue -- published by Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido. In an autobiographical novel, middle-schooler Daniel, formerly Khosrou, tells his unimpressed and at times cruel classmates about his experience as an Iranian refugee. "A modern masterpiece - as epic as the Iliad and Shahnameh, and as heartwarming as Charlotte's Web. It's for the kids at the lunch table; the heroes of tomorrow, just looking to survive the battle of adolescence." — New York Times Book Review "A journey as intimate as it is epic. A remarkable work that raises the...

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Printz Award 2020

Dig By A.S. King Winner of the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in Young Adult Literature is A.S. King's Dig -- published by Penguin Random House. "King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future." — Horn Book Review "With her inimitable surrealism and insight into teenage experience, A.S. King explores how a corrosive culture of polite, affluent white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can save themselves."  — by Karen Jensen, School...

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