Award Winners
The Michael L. Printz Award for Teen Literature
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. The honor was named for a Topeka, Kansas, school librarian who was a long-time member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.
2010 Winners and Honors
Going Bovine written by Libba Bray ---Winner
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In this ambitious novel, Cameron, a 16-year-old slacker whose somewhat dysfunctional family has just about given up on him, as perhaps he himself has, when his diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jacob, "mad cow" disease, reunites them, if too late. The heart of the story, though, is a hallucinatory—or is it?—quest with many parallels to the hopeless but inspirational efforts of Don Quixote, about whom Cameron had been reading before his illness. Just like the crazy—or was he?—Spaniard, Cam is motivated to go on a journey by a sort of Dulcinea. His pink-haired, white-winged version goes by Dulcie and leads him to take up arms against the Dark Wizard and fire giants that attack him intermittently, and to find a missing Dr. X, who can both help save the world and cure him.
Honor Books
Charles and Emma: The Darwins Leap of Faith by Deborah Heligman
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancy
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
Tales from the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes