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Someday My Printz Will Come...

Check out the 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 Michael L. Printz award winners and honor books! Which one of these titles would you pick as the ultimate winner?

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  • Legendary Frybread Drive-in

    Intertribal Stories

    The 2026 winner! This collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride and the world's best frybread.
    Book, 2025New York : Heartdrum, [2025] — TEEN FICTION LEGENDARY
  • Ever since Lucy's father died five years ago, home has been more of an idea than a place. When the sharp-eyed and kind Mr. Jameson comes looking for her, Lucy wonders if hiding from her past will ever truly keep her safe. A 2026 honor book!
    Book, 2025New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2025] — TEEN FICTION BOULLEY
  • Fictionalized but based on true events, "Song of a Blackbird" features two intertwined timelines: one a modern-day family drama, the other a thrilling tale of a WWII-era bank heist carried out by Dutch resistance fighters. A 2026 honor book!
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : First Second, 2025. — TEEN 741.5973 VAN LIESHOUT
  • As Penny wanders in her childhood home, she must confront her mother's opioid addiction to mend her fractured past. But the house is tricky. The house is impossible. It wants her to dig up the dead to escape. A 2026 honor book!
    Book, 2025New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2025 — TEEN FICTION KING
  • The 2025 winner! Summer of 1995, Almudena is sent to live with her estranged Spanish-speaking father. Together, they renovate a brownstone and build a relationship while Almudena navigates the Latin American side of her heritage for the first time.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Versify, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — TEEN 741.5973 TEER
  • An unflinchingly honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the dangerous new relationship that could threaten her dreams. A 2025 honor book!
    Book, 2024New York : Make Me A World, [2024] — TEEN FICTION ELHILLO
  • Magdalena has a secret that pulls her into the basement each night, drains her energy and leaves her bleeding. A secret that could hurt and even kill if it ever got out. Perfect for those looking for a story of family, identity, loss and magic. A…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2024. — TEEN 741.5973 OSTERTAG
  • In this final chapter in his memoir trilogy, the author tells the story of his coming out and his father's rejection of his identity, navigating abuse and survival on the streets as he searches for a place to call home. A 2025 honor book!
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] — TEEN B OGLE
  • After being nearly beaten to death for evidence he holds against the corrupt sheriff, 16-year-old transgender Miles joins his fellow townsfolk to end the blood feud and oppressive politics that plague his town. A 2025 honor book!
    Book, 2024Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, [2024] — TEEN FICTION WHITE
  • The 2024 winner! A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors, including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, in this anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.
    Book, 2023New York : Dutton Books, 2023. — TEEN FICTION COLLECTORS
  • Ánte's life has been steeped in Sámi tradition. It is indisputable to him that he, an only child, will keep working with the reindeer. But there is something else, too, something tugging at him: His feelings for his best friend. A 2024 honor book!
    Book, 2023Hoboken , NJ : Levine Querido, 2023. — TEEN FICTION ASTOT
  • Ian and his stray dog, Gather, are determined to survive and stay together! But with his mom recovering from an opioid addiction and the threat of losing their home, it's making life harder to survive. A 2024 honor book!
    Book, 2023Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press ; 2023. — TEEN FICTION CADOW
  • The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be

    a Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

    Gibney, Shannon,
    Two girls on two different timelines connect via a portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, "The Girl I Am, Was and Never Will Be," explores the often surreal experience of growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee. A 2024 honor book!
    Book, 2023New York : Dutton Books, 2023. — TEEN FICTION GIBNEY
  • "Salt the Water" is a book about dreaming in a world that has other plans for your time, your youth and your future. It asks, what does it look like when a bunch of queer Black kids are allowed to dream? A 2024 honor book!
    Book, 2023New York : Dutton Books, 2023. — TEEN FICTION ILOH
  • The 2023 winner! Responsibility for his family's motel falls to Sal after his mom's illness. Noor is secretly applying to colleges to escape from her uncle. Sal's plan to save the motel spirals out of control, and they must determine what is worth…
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, [2022] — TEEN FICTION TAHIR
  • Mickey is trying to live up to his family's legacy by playing hockey at Harland University. But depression and Jaysen (his rival teammate) make it hard for him to stay focused. A 2023 honor book!
    Book, 2022New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022. — TEEN FICTION GRAZIADEI
  • Queer Ducks (and Other Animals)

    the Natural World of Animal Sexuality

    Schrefer, Eliot, 1978-
    Nature is gay! Learn about all the awesome animals who exhibit queer behavior! From albatrosses, bonobos, clownfish and doodlebugs! A 2023 honor book!
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — TEEN 591.562 SCHREFER
  • Uriel (an angel) and Little Ash (a demon) have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and new life have drawn people to America. When one of those people goes missing, they must team up to save the missing girl! A 2023 honor book!
    Book, 2022Montclair : Levine Querido, [2022] — TEEN FICTION LAMB
  • Prudence is from a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs — parasites who feast on humans, but she left the scouts behind after her friend was killed on a hunt. A new monster appears, and she must confront her past! A 2023 honor…
    Book, 2022New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2022] — TEEN FICTION ANDERSON
  • A thriller about a biracial Indigenous teen rooting out corruption. When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, she is thrust into a criminal investigation as an undercover mole on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Winner of the 2022 Printz Award!
    Book, 2021New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021. — TEEN FICTION BOULLEY