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Who Was Michael L. Printz
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association. Link to this page with its shortened URL, www.ala.org/yalsa/printz!
Members of the 2009 Printz Award Committee are: Chair Mary Arnold, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Maple Heights Branch, Parma, Ohio; Elizabeth Burns, head of Youth Services, New Jersey Library for the Blind and Handicapped, Trenton, N.J.; Donna Cook, Central High School/ISD, Pollok, Texas; Alison Hendon, Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library; Caroline Kienzle, Apalachicola, Fla.; Ellen Loughran, Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Kevin Scanlon, Henderson District (Nev.) Public Libraries; Karyn Silverman, LREI, Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, New York; J. Marin Younker, Sno-Isle Libraries, Marysville, Wash; Margaret Butzler, administrative assistant, Bethel Park, Pa.; and Booklist consultant Gillian Engberg, Chicago.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
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Tender Morsels
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