My Printz Award Challenge for 2008

The Printz Award Challenge suggests you read six of the Printz Award winners or honors. Six isn’t very many so I’m going to read them all (a few, I have already read) before the end of 2008.

2007
American Born Chinese (10/11/8)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party (10/1/8)
An Abundance of Katherines (I’ve already read this one)
Surrender (10/12/8)
The Book Thief (I’ve alrady read this one)

2006
Looking for Alaska (10/11/8)
Black Juice (10/23/8)
I Am the Messenger (10/27/8)
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography (7/4/8)
A Wreath for Emmett Till (10/29/8)

2005
how i live now (6/8/8)
Airborn (11/27/8)
Chanda’s Secrets (10/18/8)
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (11/6/8)

2004
The First Part Last (11/9/8)
A Northern Light (11/17/8)
Keesha’s House (11/8/8)
Fat Kid Rules the World (11/8/8)
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (9/28/8)

2003
Postcards from No Man’s Land (6/1/8)
The House of the Scorpion (6/15/8)
My Heartbeat (5/16/8)
Hole in My Life (5/27/8)

2002
A Step From Heaven (4/24/8)
The Ropemaker (5/7/8)
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art (4/9/8)
Freewill (4/9/8)
True Believer (4/18/8)

2001
Kit’s Wilderness (3/23/8)
Many Stones (3/27/8)
The Body of Christopher Creed (3/27/8)
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (3/25/8)
Stuck in Neutral (2/3/8)

2000
Monster (1/29/8)
Skellig (1/5/8)
Speak (I’ve read this one)
Hard Love (1/10/8)

2 thoughts on “My Printz Award Challenge for 2008”

  1. It always surprises me how few of the Printz books I’ve actually heard of. I’ve read four of them though – the two John Green books, Speak and The Earth, My Butt and other Big Round Things.

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