Congrats, Eva Perry Mock Printz Club members, on a successful voting session last night! Below are our results:
2017 medalist:
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
2017 honors:
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Soldier Boy by Keeley Hutton
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez
Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Katie Ormsbee
Voting procedures: we cast our votes in person by anonymous weighted ballot (1st place = 5 points, 2nd place = 3 points, 3rd place = 1 point), and then some stalwart Printz members were in charge of tallying points and fielding disagreements as we attempted to narrow down honors. The Hate U Give won by a landslide at 46 points (the next closest was Midnight at the Electric at 31 points), but the honors were harder to suss out. You may notice we have 5 honors instead of the 4 that ALA allows–we decided all 5 were very strong contenders, and there was at least one person ready to fight for each one. Therefore…5 honors this year. Other than that, we stuck to ALA’s voting guidelines and “literary excellence” criteria, which can be viewed here.
If you want more info about what we read this year, visit this public list on our library’s catalog site to see what the club recommended or nominated: BRiAN list.
Eva Perry Regional Library Mock Printz Book Club 