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

Edition 9 (2008)

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

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Ashley, a girl obsessed with Antarctica, travels to the white continent with her grandfather and becomes caught in a desperate struggle to survive in a brutal environment. The novel is a cold, tense adventure shaped by isolation and obsession.

A girl drawn to Antarctica steps into a harsh white world.

270 pages
Antarcticasurvivalisolationobsessionadventure

Through the yearly encounters between vintner Sobran Jodeau and the angel Xas, the novel intertwines love, faith, desire, and fate. As a romantic fantasy from New Zealand, it combines quiet sensuality with philosophical reflection.

A vintner’s meeting with an angel changes both of them across the years.

241 pages
fantasyromancefaithfateNew Zealand

Lily senses that something will go wrong at her grandfather’s eightieth birthday gathering and tries to steer the day toward something manageable. Quiet humor and warmth spread through a family full of eccentric adults and younger voices.

A girl tries to hold together one difficult day in a family full of oddities.

250 pages
familygenerational tensionhumorromancehealing

Kiriel comes to the human world by inhabiting the body of a possessed boy, and an unexpected turn pushes him to balance duty against feeling. Blending the uncanny with humor, the novel turns faith and desire into a coming-of-age fantasy.

The rules of the supernatural begin to wobble around a demon-possessed boy.

224 pages
demonsfaithhumorself-discoveryfantasy

The life of poet Sylvia Plath is traced through a sequence of poems that render creativity, marriage, and emotional instability in layered form. Part biography and part verse performance, the book draws force from language itself.

Sylvia Plath’s life is traced through a sequence of poems.

272 pages
poetrybiographycreativitymarriagemental distress