MOCK PRINTZ

A wild and intense afternoon of book discussions ending with an attempt to guess which release from the previous year will win ALA's Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature!

Paused for 2024

Plans for 2025 will be announced in Fall 2024.

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In 2024, the committee chose not to have a Mock Printz event. Here is a list of books we recommended for those interested in reading what we consider Mock Printz worthy books!

• Accountable by Dashka Slater
• The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold
• Different For Boys by Patrick Ness
• Enter the Body by Joy McCullough
• Into the Light by Mark Oshiro
• Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer
• Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
• A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
• Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
• We Are All So Good At Smiling by Amber McBride

We do love to have teen readers at the Mock Printz. We celebrate them. We listen to them. Teen participants have to be willing to read the books (or read most of the books) and then spend a day talking intensively with other teens and adults about books. That's a "not for me" proposition for a lot of teens, but for just the right people, it is MAGICAL.

So, ask around. Maybe you'll find a couple of students who are up for giving it a try!

--Sonja Somerville  [email protected]

Here is some graphics you can download and use to invite students on social media or through email:

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PDF Flyer (8.5x11 letter sized paper)