Printz 2010
What do you think should win the medal for the best YA book first published in the US in 2009? See the criteria and list of previous winners here: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yal...

Young adult is defined for the sake of the award as ages 12-18.
1 Catching Fire (The Hunger G...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 953,443 ratings
2 Wintergirls
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 38,546 ratings
3 If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 70,216 ratings
4 Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy...
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 159,986 ratings
5 North of Beautiful
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 16,411 ratings
6 Marcelo in the Real World
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 7,783 ratings
7 Willow
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 14,542 ratings
8 Fire (Graceling Realm, #2)
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 60,299 ratings
9 Along for the Ride
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 71,734 ratings
10 Twenty Boy Summer
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 16,984 ratings
11 Going Bovine
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 15,069 ratings
12 Thirteen Reasons Why
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 153,598 ratings
13 The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 365,922 ratings
14 Love You Hate You Miss You
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 3,936 ratings
15 Front and Center (Dairy Que...
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 3,741 ratings
16 Rampant (Killer Unicorns, #1)
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 4,287 ratings
17 City of Glass (The Mortal I...
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 213,574 ratings
18 Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovel...
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 83,668 ratings
19 Stitches
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 9,191 ratings
20 Ballads of Suburbia
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 601 ratings
21 Tales of the Madman Undergr...
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 1,517 ratings
22 Waiting For You
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 10,202 ratings
23 Shadowed Summer
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 824 ratings
24 Liar
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 4,804 ratings
25 Hate List
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 15,114 ratings
26 Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 34,081 ratings
27 Eyes Like Stars (Théâtre Il...
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 6,832 ratings
28 Lips Touch: Three Times
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
29 City of Ashes (The Mortal I...
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 203,009 ratings
30 The Ask and the Answer (Cha...
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 18,359 ratings
31 The Giver
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 546,770 ratings
32 The Body Finder (The Body F...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 24,600 ratings
33 Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely...
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 32,765 ratings
34 Forest Born (The Books of B...
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 11,964 ratings
35 The Lost Conspiracy
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 843 ratings
35 The Chosen One
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7,784 ratings
37 The Book Thief
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4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 313,824 ratings
38 Captivate (Need, #2)
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 21,319 ratings
39 Need (Need, #1)
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 32,978 ratings
40 To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 1,436,769 ratings
41 Fragile Eternity (Wicked Lo...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 24,372 ratings
42 Radiant Shadows (Wicked Lov...
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 20,485 ratings
43 King of the Screwups
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
44 The September Sisters
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 334 ratings
45 The Vast Fields of Ordinary
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 3,861 ratings
46 Bridge to Terabithia
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 168,521 ratings
47 The Five People You Meet in...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 250,479 ratings
48 Jumped
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3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 617 ratings
48 The Graveyard Book
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 131,969 ratings
50 Crossing Stones
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 613 ratings
51 Ella Enchanted
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 167,882 ratings
52 Coraline
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 142,008 ratings
53 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 113,018 ratings
54 Betrayal (A Daughter of Kin...
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 68 ratings
55 Flash Burnout
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
55 Riding Invisible
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 132 ratings
57 Rise of the Fallen (Ruin Mi...
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 76 ratings
58 The Waters & the Wild
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 697 ratings
59 Hold Still
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 7,465 ratings
60 Tuck Everlasting
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 95,027 ratings
61 The Night I Disappeared
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 618 ratings
62 Cut
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 23,417 ratings
63 The Rookie
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
64 The Eternal Smile: Three St...
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,943 ratings
64 Rebirth (A Daughter of King...
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4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 51 ratings
66 Winnie's War
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 99 ratings
66 Deliverance (A Daughter of ...
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 49 ratings
68 Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 12,914 ratings
68 The Valley of the Wolves (C...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 885 ratings
70 Partly Cloudy: Poems of Lov...
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3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 126 ratings
70 Charles and Emma: The Darwi...
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 2,233 ratings
70 The Luckiest Girl in the World
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 524 ratings
73 The Monstrumologist (The Mo...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 5,535 ratings
74 Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
75 Look for Me by Moonlight
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 1,688 ratings
76 The Doll in the Garden
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 2,549 ratings
77 The Old Willis Place
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 3,263 ratings
78 Deep and Dark and Dangerous...
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 5,472 ratings
79 Wait Till Helen Comes
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 7,367 ratings
80 Among the Hidden (Shadow Ch...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 41,246 ratings
81 From the Mixed-Up Files of ...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 73,070 ratings
82 Where the Red Fern Grows
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 148,962 ratings
83 Pippi Longstocking
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 63,422 ratings
84 The Spell Book of Listen Ta...
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 961 ratings
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Comments (showing 1-9 of 9) (9 new)

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message 1: by Christina (new)

Christina Ack! I've only read 4 of these so far! Looks like a great list and as soon as I've read more of them I'll vote. :-)


message 2: by Wendy (new)

Wendy Weird, I think someone took Catching Fire off this list. Not cool, guys. I'm not going to vote for it, but someone else, feel free to put it back on.


message 3: by Leigha (new)

Leigha The Chosen One needs to win The Printz 2010. It was 100 100% better than every book on this list.


message 4: by Anna (new)

Anna u guys r negative


message 5: by Sophie (new)

Sophie I took off a couple of books that weren't first published in 2009 and are therefore ineligible.


message 6: by Wendy (new)

Wendy You might know this already, Sophie, but just to make sure and for anyone else who might be reading this: books that were published in other countries in previous years but appeared in the US for the first time this year are eligible for the Printz. (Last year's winner, Jellicoe Road, was like that.) Not that I'm saying any of the books you took off were like that, because I know people keep voting for stuff like Virginia Woolf books, which are ineligible on multiple levels.


message 7: by Sophie (new)

Sophie Ah, I see. I'm pretty sure I didn't take off anything like that, but if I did, feel free to add them back, voters.


message 8: by Adam (new)

Adam Going Bovine has won.


message 9: by Nina Gayle (last edited Aug 08, 2010 08:04pm) (new)

Nina Gayle Winner 2010 Printz: Going Bovine
Honor books:
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
The Monstrumologist
Punkzilla
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973

Interesting that as of Aug. 08, 2010, no one has voted on one of the winners: Punkzilla. I didn't vote for it because I haven't read it yet.

I removed City of Bones, published 2007


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