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Michael L. Printz Award まいける・える・ぷりんつしょう

Edition 5 (2004)

Young Adult LiteratureFor Youth (YA)American Literary AwardYoung AdultFictionNonfictionPoetryAnthologyLibrary Association Award

Winners

5 people

A novel told by a teenage father confronting an unexpected pregnancy and the responsibilities of parenthood.

144 pages

A coming-of-age novel in which a young woman confronts ambition, loss, and the limits imposed on her life.

416 pages
Helen Frost Honor

A verse novel about troubled teenagers who find temporary refuge and one another in a shared house.

144 pages

A punk-inflected coming-of-age novel about an isolated teen who finds confidence through friendship and music.

224 pages

Virginia Shreves is a high school student who feels intensely self-conscious about her body and has to face family pressure, awkward romance, and the fracture her brother's troubles create at home. Moving between humor and pain, the novel traces a teenager's slow work toward accepting both her appearance and her feelings.

A girl uneasy in her own body moves forward while wavering between family, romance, and self-acceptance.

288 pages
self-acceptancebody imagefamily relationshipsromancecoming of age