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

第10回(2009年)

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

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Set at a boarding school, the novel follows Taylor as she pieces together fragmentary memories and past events in search of her roots and place in the world. Friendship, betrayal, and redemption are woven into a layered YA story.

A girl searches for where she belongs by piecing together fragments of memory.

432ページ
memory and the pastfriendship and lovebelongingtrauma

Octavian, having escaped a death sentence, tries to survive in British-occupied Boston and along the southern coast as the Revolutionary War intensifies. The novel explores freedom, loyalty, violence, and belonging on a sweeping historical canvas.

In the midst of the Revolution, Octavian’s search for freedom continues.

592ページ
historical fictionslaverythe Revolutionary Waridentity

Sophomore Frankie becomes fascinated by an all-male secret society and begins to expose how it works from the outside. Using both her romantic life and her intelligence, she unsettles the school’s power structure in a sharp YA novel.

A high school girl’s perspective begins to shake an all-male secret society from within.

352ページ
adolescencegenderpower structuresYA fiction

After a tidal wave destroys his island home, Mau meets Daphne, the lone survivor of another disaster, and the two begin to rebuild a community. The novel is a forceful YA story about hope after catastrophe and the rethinking of tradition and belief.

After the wave, two survivors begin to build a new community.

300ページ
disaster and renewalcommunitybeliefYA fantasy

A dark, vivid story set between two worlds. Liga raises her daughters in a private heaven, but violence and wildness eventually breach that refuge, forcing the three women to survive in a world where beauty and brutality stand side by side.

A protected refuge is eventually invaded by the violence of the real world.

496ページ
fantasymother and daughtersviolence and refugeboundaries