2005 Award Winner
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how i live now
by Meg Rosoff
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House
Meg Rosoff has won the 2005 Michael L. Printz Award for her uncompromising work, “how i live now,” published by Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. Set during a shocking occupation by terrorist forces, Rosoff’s novel is narrated by15-year-old Daisy, a wry and alienated young woman who finds true love, mystical connections, and a sense of home with her cousins in England.
“Through Daisy’s evolving voice, readers see a teen who moves beyond self-absorption to become a resourceful survivor, understanding the need to care for others,” said Award Chair Betty Carter. “Meg Rosoff achieves balance in a story both darkly symbolic and bitingly funny.”
Rosoff was born in Boston, graduated from Harvard, and now makes her London. “how i live now” is her first novel.
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2005 Honor Books
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Airborn
by Kenneth Oppel, published by EOS, an imprint of HarperCollins
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Chanda's Secrets
by Allan Stratton, published by Annick Press
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
by Gary D. Schmidt, published by Clarion Books, a Houghton Mifflin Company Imprint
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Award sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.
Members of the Printz Award Committee are: Betty Carter, Coppell, TX.; Diana Tixier Herald, Center for Adolescent Reading, Glade Park, CO.; Holly Koelling, King County Library System, Bothell, WA.; Bonnie Kunzel, New Jersey State Library, Trenton, NJ.; Kate McClelland, Perrot Library, Old Greenwich, CT.; Donna McMillen, King County Library System, Renton, WA.; Ed Spicer, Allegan Public Schools, Allegan, MI., Diane Tuccillo, City of Mesa Library, Mesa, AZ.; Edna Weeks, Hawaii State Library, Honolulu, HI; and Ilene Cooper, Booklist, Chicago.
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