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 "The education of Margot Sanchez"
Star rating for The education of Margot Sanchez
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood.
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 "Midnight at the Electric"
Star rating for Midnight at the Electric
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
HONOR TITLE
Description:
In the months before her one-way trip to Mars, Adri Ortiz is sent to Wichita to live with a elderly cousin and finds herself fixating on where she came from and the stories of two women who lived more than a hundred years earlier.
Book cover for "Moxie"
Star rating for Moxie
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Recommended
Description:
In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.
Book cover for "Night witches"
Star rating for Night witches
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Nominated
Description:
16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble ... [et al.].
Book cover for "Soldier boy"
Star rating for Soldier boy
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
HONOR TITLE
Description:
Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.