| Year |
Title |
Author |
| 2008 |
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village |
Laura Amy Schlitz |
| 2007 |
The Higher Power of Lucky |
Susan Patron |
| 2006 |
Criss Cross |
Lynne Rae Perkins |
| 2005 |
Kira-Kira |
Cynthia Kadohata |
| 2004 |
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread |
Kate DiCamillo |
| 2003 |
Crispin: the Cross of Lead |
Avi |
| 2002 |
A Single Shard |
Linda Sue Park |
| 2001 |
A Year Down Yonder |
Richard Peck |
| 2000 |
Bud, Not Buddy |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
| 1999 |
Holes |
Louis Sachar |
| 1998 |
Out of the Dust |
Karen Hesse |
| 1997 |
The View from Saturday |
E.L. Konigsburg |
| 1996 |
The Midwife's Apprentice |
Karen Cushman |
| 1995 |
Walk Two Moons |
Sharon Creech |
| 1994 |
The Giver |
Lois Lowry |
| 1993 |
Missing May |
Cynthia Rylant |
| 1992 |
Shiloh |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| 1991 |
Maniac Magee |
Jerry Spinelli |
| 1990 |
Number the Stars |
Lois Lowry |
| 1989 |
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices |
Paul Fleischman |
| 1988 |
Lincoln: A Photobiography |
Russell Freedman |
| 1987 |
The Whipping Boy |
Sid Fleischman |
| 1986 |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
Patricia MacLachlan |
| 1985 |
The Hero and the Crown |
Robin McKinley |
| 1984 |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
Beverly Cleary |
| 1983 |
Dicey's Song |
Cynthia Voigt |
| 1982 |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers |
Nancy Willard |
| 1981 |
Jacob Have I Loved |
Katherine Paterson |
| 1980 |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 |
Joan W. Blos |
| 1979 |
The Westing Game |
Ellen Raskin |
| 1978 |
Bridge to Terabithia |
Katherine Paterson |
| 1977 |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Mildred D. Taylor |
| 1976 |
The Grey King |
Susan Cooper |
| 1975 |
M. C. Higgins, the Great |
Virginia Hamilton |
| 1974 |
The Slave Dancer |
Paula Fox |
| 1973 |
Julie of the Wolves |
Jean Craighead George |
| 1972 |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
Robert C. O'Brien |
| 1971 |
Summer of the Swans |
Betsy Byars |
| 1970 |
Sounder |
William H. Armstrong |
| 1969 |
The High King |
Lloyd Alexander |
| 1968 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
E. L. Konigsburg |
| 1967 |
Up a Road Slowly |
Irene Hunt |
| 1966 |
I, Juan de Pareja |
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
| 1965 |
Shadow of a Bull |
Maia Wojciechowska |
| 1964 |
It's Like This, Cat |
Emily Neville |
| 1963 |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Madeleine L'Engle |
| 1962 |
The Bronze Bow |
Elizabeth George Speare |
| 1961 |
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
Scott O'Dell |
| 1960 |
Onion John |
Joseph Krumgold |
| 1959 |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
Elizabeth George Speare |
| 1958 |
Rifles for Watie |
Harold Keith |
| 1957 |
Miracles on Maple Hill |
Virginia Sorenson |
| 1956 |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch |
Jean Lee Latham |
| 1955 |
The Wheel on the School |
Meindert DeJong |
| 1954 |
...And Now Miguel |
Joseph Krumgold |
| 1953 |
Secret of the Andes |
Ann Nolan Clark |
| 1952 |
Ginger Pye |
Eleanor Estes |
| 1951 |
Amos Fortune, Free Man |
Elizabeth Yates |
| 1950 |
The Door in the Wall |
Marguerite de Angeli |
| 1949 |
King of the Wind |
Marguerite Henry |
| 1948 |
The Twenty-One Balloons |
William Pène du Bois |
| 1947 |
Miss Hickory |
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
| 1946 |
Strawberry Girl |
Lois Lenski |
| 1945 |
Rabbit Hill |
Robert Lawson |
| 1944 |
Johnny Tremain |
Esther Forbes |
| 1943 |
Adam of the Road |
Elizabeth Gray Vining |
| 1942 |
The Matchlock Gun |
Walter Edmonds |
| 1941 |
Call It Courage |
Armstrong Sperry |
| 1940 |
Daniel Boone |
James Daugherty |
| 1939 |
Thimble Summer |
Elizabeth Enright |
| 1938 |
The White Stag |
Kate Seredy |
| 1937 |
Roller Skates |
Ruth Sawyer |
| 1936 |
Caddie Woodlawn |
Carol Ryrie Brink |
| 1935 |
Dobry |
Monica Shannon |
| 1934 |
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women |
Cornelia Meigs |
| 1933 |
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze |
Elizabeth Lewis |
| 1932 |
Waterless Mountain |
Laura Adams Armer |
| 1931 |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven |
Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| 1930 |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years |
Rachel Field |
| 1929 |
The Trumpeter of Krakow |
Eric P. Kelly |
| 1928 |
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon |
Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| 1927 |
Smoky, the Cowhorse |
Will James |
| 1926 |
Shen of the Sea |
Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
| 1925 |
Tales from Silver Lands |
Charles Finger |
| 1924 |
The Dark Frigate |
Charles Hawes |
| 1923 |
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle |
Hugh Lofting |
| 1922 |
The Story of Mankind |
Hendrik Willem van Loon |
