Printz Award Winner

2008 Printz Award Winner

The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean, published by HarperTempest, an imprint of HarperCollins has won the 2008 Michael L. Printz Award. The award announcement was made during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, January 11-16.

Fourteen-year-old Symone's exciting vacation to Antarctica turns into a desperate struggle for survival when her uncle's obsessive quest leads them across the frozen wilderness into danger.
McCaughrean has won numerous awards for children's literature in her native England. Celebrated for her novels, picture books and folklore adaptations, The White Darkness is her first contemporary young adult novel.

"Symone's unforgettable voice propels this journey of discovery in a book that is intricately plotted, richly imaged and brings new meaning to the term unreliable narrator," said Printz Award Committee Chair Lynn Rutan. "Readers will need to hang onto their snow goggles in this compelling book in which nothing is as it seems at first glance."

2008 Honor Books
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
by Elizabeth Knox, published by Frances Foster Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux

One Whole and Perfect Day
by Judith Clarke, published by Front Street, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc.

Repossessed
by A.M. Jenkins, published by HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
By Stephanie Hemphill, published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books