[OYAN] Mini Mock Printz 2026: Titles Announced + How to Participate

[Lindsey Quigley-Johnson]

Hi everyone,

We’ve begun offering our Mock Printz workshop every other year, with our
next hybrid event in January of 2027. Of course, we still love to celebrate
incredible Young Adult books, so we’ve prepared some resources to encourage
you to hold *Mini Mock Printz *events in your own community. This is your
chance to explore some of the most talked-about and thought-provoking young
adult books of the year — and to help decide which one *you* think deserves
the 2026 *Michael L. Printz Award <https://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz>*.

*Here’s how it works:*

   - You read *all eight selected titles* listed below...
   - You’ll have until *mid-January* to read them all and then...
   - Host your own *Mock Printz book group*! The attached document has
   further details, instructions, and a link to a *voting form *so we can
   choose our statewide winner and see how our pick stacks up against YALSA’s
   official Printz Award selection. If you are unable to hold your own book
   group, please feel free to join one nearby, or read on your own and vote.
   - *If you’re planning to participate, please
   email lindsey at creswell-library.org
   <lindsey at creswell-library.org> or lisae at tigard-or.gov
   <lisae at tigard-or.gov> to let us know! *The Mock Printz is the most fun
   when teens are involved. Maybe you’d like to offer this as a library event?
   A staff book group? A winter gathering with bookish friends? A solo
   exploration of the best in teen lit? It all sounds good to us!

*This year’s Mini Mock Printz titles:*

   - *Song of a Blackbird* by Maria Van Lieshout
   - *Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of
   Jonestown* by Candace Fleming
   - *The Corruption of Hollis Brown* by K. Ancrum
   - *Banned Together: Our Fight for Reader’s Rights* by Ashley Hope Pérez
   - *Sisters in the Wind* by Angeline Boulley
   - *(S)Kin* by Ibi Zoboi
   - *Run Away With Me* by Brian Selznick
   - *I Am the Swarm* by Hayley Chewins

For the *2025 Mock Printz Award*
<https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2025-mock-yma-elections-results-page/#anchor-printz>,
we gathered together and decided on *Compound Fracture *as our winner, with
*Brownstone *and *Everything We Never Had *as Mock Printz Honor Titles.

Let’s celebrate great storytelling, critical thinking, and the joy of
reading together. We can’t wait -to see which book you’ll champion!

-- 

Lindsey Quigley-Johnson (she/her/hers)
Youth and Community Services Librarian
Creswell Library
lindsey at creswell-library.org
I'm usually available Tue - Fri during library hours.
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