2010

• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

2009

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
• Savvy by Ingrid Law
• After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2008

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

2007

• The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron,
• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• Rules by Cynthia Lord

2006

• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
• Whittington by Alan Armstrong
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

2005

• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
• The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

2004

• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

2003

• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
• A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

2002

• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
• Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001

• A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck
• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

2000

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

1999

• Holes by Louis Sachar
• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

1998

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

1997

• The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

1996

• The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)

1995

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1994

• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
• Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

1993

• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

1992

• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

1991

• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

1989

• Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
• In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

1988

• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1987

• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
• Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

1986

• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

1985

• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley *Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

1984

• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

1983

• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
• Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
• Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982

• A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

1981

• Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
• The Fledgling by Jane Langton
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

1980

• A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
• The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian

1979

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
• Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

1977

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• Abel's Island by William Steig
• A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

1976

• The Grey King by Susan Cooper
• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

1975

• M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
• Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
• My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
• The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
• Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

1974

• The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

1973

• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1972

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
• Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1971

• Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
• Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
• Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

1970

• Sounder by William H. Armstrong
• Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
• The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
• Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

1969

• The High King by Lloyd Alexander
• To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
• When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1968

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
• Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg
• The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
• The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967

• Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
• The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
• Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

1966

• I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
• The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
• The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
• The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

1965

• Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964

• It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
• Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
• The Loner by Ester Wier

1963

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud.
• Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1962

• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
• Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz

1961

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
• Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
• The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden

1960

• Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
• The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

1959

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
• Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong
• Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
• The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

1958

• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
• The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
• Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
• The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
• Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

1957

• Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
• The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
• Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
• The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
• Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

1956

• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
• The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
• Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

1955

• The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
• Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
• Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

1954

• ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
• All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
• Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
• Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong
• Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
• Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff

1953

• Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
• Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
• Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

1952

• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
• Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
• Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
• The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
• The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
• The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff

1951

• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
• Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
• Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
• Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
• The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

1950

• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
• Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
• The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
• Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
• George Washington by Genevieve Foster
• Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in *Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst

1949

• King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
• Seabird by Holling C. Holling
• Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
• My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
• Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

1948

• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
• Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
• Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
• The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
• The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

1947

• Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
• Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
• Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
• The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
• The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher
• The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

1946

• Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
• Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
• The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
• Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
• New Found World by Katherine Shippen

1945

• Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
• The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
• Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
• Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton

1944

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
• Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
• Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

1943

• Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
• Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

1942

• The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
• Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
• Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

1941

• Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
• Blue Willow by Doris Gates
• Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

1940

• Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
• The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
• Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
• By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

1939

• Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
• Nino by Valenti Angelo
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
• Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
• Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
• Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1938

• The White Stag by Kate Seredy
• Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
• Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937

• Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
• Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
• Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
• The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
• Winterbound by Margery Bianco
• The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
• Audubon by Constance Rourke

1936

• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
• Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
• The Good Master by Kate Seredy
• Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

1935

• Dobry by Monica Shannon
• Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
• Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
• Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum

1934

• Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
• The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
• Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
• ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
• Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud.
• New Land by Sarah Schmidt
• Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
• Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
• Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

1933

• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
• Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
• The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
• Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

1932

• Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
• The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
• Calico Bush by Rachel Field
• Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
• Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
• Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
• Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis

1931

• The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• Floating Island by Anne Parrish
• The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
• Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
• Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams
• Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
• Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
• Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen

1930

• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
• A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
• Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
• Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
• The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
• Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
• Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

1929

• The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
• Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
• The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
• Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
• Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
• Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

1928

• Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
• The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
• Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

1927

• Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

1926

• Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
• The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

1925

• Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
• Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
• The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1924

• The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

1923

• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

1922

• The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
• The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
• Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
• The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
• The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
• The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs