Printz Club Picks (2017)

All books recommended or nominated by Reading Corps/Mock Printz Club. All are published in 2017, and the system has 10 copies

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Book cover for "Beyond the bright sea"
Star rating for Beyond the bright sea
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
Set adrift on the ocean in a small skiff as a newborn, twelve-year-old Crow embarks on a quest to find the missing pieces of her history.
Book cover for "City of saints & thieves"
Star rating for City of saints & thieves
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
Book cover for "Dear Martin"
Star rating for Dear Martin
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
HONOR TITLE
Description:
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Book cover for "Genuine fraud"
Star rating for Genuine fraud
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Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
Told through flashbacks, this is the story of best friends Jule and Imogen, orphaned outcasts who'll do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.
Book cover for "The hate u give"
Star rating for The hate u give
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Notes:
2017 WINNER
Description:
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died. "Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal...
Book cover for "Here we are"
Star rating for Here we are
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
A scrapbook-style teen guide to understanding what it really means to be a feminist packed with contributions from a diverse range of voices, including celebrities and public figures, and featuring more than forty-four pieces.
Book cover for "History is all you left me"
Star rating for History is all you left me
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
Secrets are revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves for his first love, Theo, who died in a drowning accident.
Book cover for "A line in the dark"
Star rating for A line in the dark
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong's best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects heartbreak. But when everybody's secrets start to be revealed, the stakes quickly elevate from love or loneliness to life or death.
Book cover for "One of us is lying"
Star rating for One of us is lying
Series:
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
Nominated
Description:
When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case.
Book cover for "Radio silence"
Star rating for Radio silence
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
Nominated
Description:
A studious girl and a quiet, straight-A boy start a controversial podcast together that challenges their courage and forces them to confront issues in the form of backlash and censorship.
Book cover for "Shadow run"
Star rating for Shadow run
Series:
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Notes:
Nominated
Description:
The captain of a starship and a prince are forced to revise their ideas of family and loyalty, with the fate of their worlds hanging in the balance.
Book cover for "Turtles all the way down"
Star rating for Turtles all the way down
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
Book cover for "We are okay"
Star rating for We are okay
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.