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

Edition 7 (2006)

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Winners

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John Green Winner

Miles is drawn to the enigmatic Alaska and learns about friendship, loss, and how to face himself during life at a boarding school. In the aftermath of a life-changing event, the novel carefully layers the emotional turbulence of adolescence.

At boarding school, a boy confronts a mysterious girl and the meaning of loss.

240 pages
boarding schoolfriendshiplossromanceself-discovery

A debut novel about a boarding-school boy drawn to a brilliant girl, then forced to face love, loss, and meaning.

240 pages
Markus Zusak Honor

A short-story collection of dark, dreamlike tales that move between the uncanny and the violent.

A photo-rich biography that follows John Lennon’s life from his wartime birth in Liverpool through the Beatles years, his political voice, and his relationship with Yoko Ono. It presents him not as a myth, but as a public figure shaped by creativity, conflict, and constant reinvention.

A photo-biography that brings forward the complex, compelling John Lennon behind the legend.

256 pages
John Lennon’s lifeThe Beatlesmusic and creativitypolitics and peace activismphoto-based biography

A novel about an ordinary young man drawn into a mysterious series of tasks that tests courage and responsibility.

368 pages