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Michael L. Printz Award The Michael L. Printz Award is for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.  The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association who wrote the annotations. .<http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz> 2007 Winner American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Gene Luen Yang has won the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award for his masterful graphic novel, American Born Chinese. It is the first graphic novel to be recognized by the Michael L. Printz Committee. Yang draws from American pop culture and ancient Chinese mythology in his groundbreaking work. Expertly told in words and pictures, Yangís story in three parts follows a Chinese American teenagerís struggle to define himself against racial stereotypes. 2007 Printz Honor Books Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Historical Fiction

The Alex Awards, administered by YALSA and cosponsored by Booklist and the Margaret A. Edwards trust honor the top 10 adult books, published during the previous year, with appeal to readers between the ages of 12 and 18. For more information, visit the Alex Awards. Annotations published by Booklist.

	FANTASY Stephen King meets the Brothers Grimm in this gruesome fairy tale about a motherless boy transported to another world, where he embarks on a quest for The Book of Lost Things.	HISTORICAL FICTION Rose Llewellyn, "who can't cook but doesn't bite," arrives in Montana in1909, bringing joy and order to three motherless boys and their father in Ivan Doig's The Whistling Season.
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Life in a remote Alaskan village is transformed by the championship aspirations of the high-school basketball team.	Suddenly orphaned during the Depression, a veterinary student jumps on a third-rate circus train and finds romance, danger, and a bond with a special elephant.	Raised in the samurai tradition, a teenager struggles to live within this code, even as he decides to fight for the U.S. after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.	Toby, 72, is about to lose the family ranch when her pregnant granddaughter, Lila, comes for the summer and uncovers family secrets.
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A dying woman's wish leads an abused 15-year-old from the streets of Memphis to a loving family, an education, and a professional football career.	In the British village of Black Swan Green, 13-year-old Jason survives ghost sightings, bullies, a first kiss, and his parentsí divorce as well as a severe speech difficulty.	When 17-year-old Travis Shelton discovers a marijuana farm in the Appalachian woods, he begins a confrontation with the subtle evils within his rural world.	Margaret, a shy, unknown biographer, must sift truth from fiction when she learns the secrets of a reclusive best-selling authorís mysterious past.