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Michael L. Printz Award for excel­lence in lit­er­a­ture writ­ten for
young adults. Melina Mar­che­tta, author of Jel­li­coe Road, is the
2009 Printz Award win­ner. The book is pub­lished by Harper­Teen, an
imprint of Harper­Collins Publishers.

Four Printz Honor Books also were named:

• The Aston­ish­ing Life of Octa­vian Noth­ing, Trai­tor to the Nation, Vol­ume II, The King­dom on
  the Waves, by M.T. Ander­son, pub­lished by Can­dlewick Press;
• The Dis­rep­utable His­tory of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lock­hart,
  pub­lished by Hype­r­ion Books for Chil­dren, an imprint of Dis­ney Book
  Group;
• Nation, by Terry Pratch­ett, pub­lished by Harper­Collins
  Children’s Books, a divi­sion of Harper­Collins Publishers;
• Ten­der Morsels, by Margo Lana­gan, pub­lished by Alfred A.
  Knopf, an imprint of Ran­dom House Children’s Books, a divi­sion of
  Ran­dom House, Inc., New York.