Count so far: 12 of 86

• 2010 When You Reach Me
• 2009: The Graveyard Book
• 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
• 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
• 2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
• 2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
• 2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a *Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
• 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
• 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• 2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
• 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar
• 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• 1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
• 1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• 1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• 1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
• 1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
• 1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• 1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• 1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
• 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• 1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
• 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• 1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
• 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• 1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
• 1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
• 1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
• 1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
• 1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• 1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• 1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
• 1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
• 1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
• 1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
• 1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
• 1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
• 1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
• 1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
• 1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
• 1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
• 1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
• 1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
• 1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• 1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
• 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• 1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
• 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• 1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
• 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
• 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
• 1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
• 1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
• 1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
• 1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
• 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
• 1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
• 1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
• 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
• 1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
• 1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
• 1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
• 1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• 1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• 1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
• 1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
• 1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
• 1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
• 1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
• 1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
• 1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
• 1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
• 1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
• 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
• 1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
• 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
• 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
• 1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
• 1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
• 1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
• 1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
• 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