Mock Printz 2026 discussion

What book will take the Printz? What books will take the honor? List up to five books in the comments. On January 14 I will create a poll with the top 10 books. That will leave us almost 2 weeks to read and vote for the top books!

The Fault in Our Stars
Code Name Verity
Ask the Passengers
Endangered
Every Day

1. The Fault in Our Stars
2. Code Name Verity
3. Every Day
4. Insurgent
5. Cinder

Every Day by David Levithan, Code Named Verity by Elizabth Wein, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor, Son by Lois Lowry

The Fault in Our Stars, The Brides of Rollrock Island, Never Fall Down, The Diviners, The Wicked and the Just, Ask the Passengers.

Askk the Passengers, Code Name Verity

Code Name Verity
The Wicked and the Just
The Raven Boys

1. Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
2. Every Day by David Levithan
3. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
4. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
5. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

1- Code Name Verity
2- Seraphina
3- The Drowned Cities
4- The Wicked and the Just
5- A Confusion of Princes

Code Name Verity
The Fault in Our Stars
The Wicked and the Just
Cinder
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

The Wicked and the Just
The Fault in Our Stars
Code Name Verity
Every Day
Radiant Days (by E. Hand)

The fault in our stars
Jepp, who defied the stars
Bitterblue

The Fault in Our Stars
Code Name Verity
Some of the other comments include books I really enjoyed this year but don't believe will find their way to the Printz award list. Maybe The Raven Boys, but I'm not sure since it's the first in a series.

Every Day
The Drowned Cities
Seraphina
The Brides of Rollrock Island

I would really like to see The Year of the Beasts get some love, but it's probably a long-stretch.

The Fault in Our Stars
Ask the Passengers
The Children and the Wolves
The miseducation of Cameron Post
Code Name Verity (which I didn't like very much, contrary to everyone, but I think it will get noticed by the Printz committee)

The Fault In Our Stars
Ask The Passenger
This Is Not A Test
Shadow And Bone
The Diviners

In no particular order...

Code Name Verity
Seraphina
Ask the Passengers
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets to the Universe
A Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars
Code Name Verity
Ask the Passengers
The Diviners
Raven Boys

I'd like to see The Lions of Little Rockwin either the Printz or the Newbery. I also really liked No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller

Code Name Verity
The Girl with Borrowed Wings
Ask the Passengers
The Brides of Rollrock Island
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Can I give all five of my votes to The Fault in Our Stars? No? ....fiiiiiiiiine....
2) No Crystal Stair
3) The Brides of Rollrock Island
4) Son
5) Ask the Passengers

The Fault in Our Stars
Code Name Verity
The Brides of Rollrock Island
Seraphina
Bomb

Code Name Verity
Seraphina
The Fault in Our Stars
Ask the Passengers

Not sure about a 5th, there are a lot that I still haven't read!

Brides of Rollrock Island
Seraphina
Bomb
Code Name Verity

1. Code Name Verity
2. Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies
3. Boy 21
4. Days of Blood & Starlight
5. Grave Mercy

Code Name Verity
The Fault in Our Stars
Ask the Passengers

I also loved Raven Boys, Bitterblue, and Grave Mercy, but I don't see any of those getting Printz love, for a variety of reasons.

As of message 26 the votes are:

Code Name Verity - 19

The Fault in Our Stars - 16

Ask the Passengers - 12

Seraphina - 7

Brides of Rollrock and Every Day - tied with 6

The Wicked and the Just - 5

Cinder, Days of Blood and Starlight, Diviners, Raven Boys, Grave Mercy, Drowned Cities, No Crystal Stair, Bomb - 2

Endangered, Insurgent, Son, Never Fall Down, Confusion of Princes, Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Radiant Days, Jepp Who Defied the Stars, Bitterblue, Year of the Beasts, Children and the Wolves, Miseducation of Cameron Post, This is Not a Test, Shadow and Bone, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Lions of Little Rock, No Crystal Stair, Girl With Borrowed Wings, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Master of Deceit, Boy21 - 1


REMEMBER: THE POLICY STATES THE BOOK MUST BE INTENDED FOR AN AUDIENCE BETWEEN 12 AND 18.

ALSO (FROM THE PRINTZ WEBSITE):
What we are looking for, in short, is literary excellence.

All forms of writing—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and any combination of these, including anthologies—are eligible.

The following criteria are only suggested guidelines and should in no way be considered as absolutes. They will always be open to change and adaptation. Depending on the book, one or more of these criteria will apply:

Story
Voice
Style
Setting
Accuracy
Characters
Theme
Illustrations
Design (including format, organization, etc.)
For each book the questions and answers will be different, the weight of the various criteria will be different.

Code Name Verity
The Fault in Our Stars
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
I don't think I could pick a fifth- there were a lot I really liked, for instance, The Diviners, Keeping the Castle and Cinder, but I'm not sure they are what the committee is looking for...

Code Name Verity
Jepp, who defied the stars
Ask the Passengers
Every Day
The Fault In Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars
Seraphina
Dodger
Dying to Know You
Raven Boys

I'll second Boy21.

Fault in Our Stars
Me, Earl and the Dying Girl
The Theory of Everything
Code Name Verity
Every Day

The Fault in Our Stars
Every Day

Code Name Verity
Seraphina
The Brides of Rollrock Island
The Raven Boys
The Wicked and the Just

The Fault in Our Stars
The Diviners

1. Code Name Verity
2. Ask the Passengers
3. The Diviners
4. The Fault in Our Stars
5. Every Day

Code Name Verity
Ask the Passengers
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Catch and Release
The Disenchantments

(I think I'm the only person on earth who still hasn't read TFiOS, but I promise I will). :)

ask the passengers
code name verity
seraphina
every day

Railsea
Code Name Verity
Seraphina
Children and the Wolves
Every Day

3 weeks until the announcement! I will also send this as a message for those of you who aren't following the thread:

I originally had No Crystal Stair in two places - it should have 2 votes so far.

Standings as of 1/8/2013 (after message 40):

Code Name Verity - 28

Fault in Our Stars - 24

Ask the Passengers - 17

Seraphina - 11

Every Day - 12 (big jump)

Brides of Rollrock - 7

The Wicked and The Just - 6

The Diviners and The Raven Boys - 4 each

The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Me, Earl & The Dying Girl - 3 each

Cinder, Days of Blood and Starlight, Grave Mercy, Drowned Cities, No Crystal Stair, Bomb, The Children and The Wolves, Boy21, Jepp Who Defied the Stars - 2 each

Endangered, Insurgent, Son, Never Fall Down, Confusion of Princes, Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Radiant Days, Bitterblue, Year of the Beasts, This is Not a Test, Shadow and Bone, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Lions of Little Rock, Girl With Borrowed Wings, Master of Deceit, Dodger, Dying to Know You, Theory of Everything, Catch and Release, The Disenchantments, Railsea - 1 each

My Top Picks (in no particular order)

1. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
2. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
3. Days of Blood and Starlight by Laina Taylor
4. The Diviners by Libba Bray

1. Ask the passengers
2. The Fault in Our Stars
3. Love and Haight
4. Every Day
5. Bitterblue

Kathy wrote: "What book will take the Printz? What books will take the honor? List up to five books in the comments. On January 14 I will create a poll with the top 10 books. That will leave us almost 2 weeks t..."

Seraphina, Every Day, Raven Boys, THe Diviners

I haven't read as many as most of you, but the Miseducation of Cameron Post is a favorite for me.

The Fault in Our Stars
The Raven Boys
The Diviners
Days of Blood and Starlight
Grave Mercy

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Fault in Our Stars

Comments are officially closed. At least they will be when I get to a computer. Poll goes up 1/14/13.