2007

The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan--Winner!
Honor Books
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord

2006

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins--Winner!
Honor Books
Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: growing up in Hitler's shadow by Susan C. Bartoletti
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

2005

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

2004

Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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
 

2002

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park--Winner!
Honor Books
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
 

2001

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

2000

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

1999

Holes by Louis Sachar--Winner!
Honor Book
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
 

1998

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
The 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--Winner!
Honor Books
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
 

1995

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech--Winner!
Honor Books
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
 

1994

The Giver by Lois Lowry--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Book
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
 

1990

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry--Winner!
Honor Books
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 of Two Voices by Paul Fleischman--Winner!
Honor Books
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
 

1988

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman--Winner!
Honor Books
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
 

1987

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
 

1985

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Doctor De Soto 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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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, 1830-32 by Joan Blos--Winner!
Honor Books
The Road from Home by David Kherdian
 

1979

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin--Winner!
Honor Book
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
 

1978

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson--Winner!
Honor Books
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
 

1977

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor--Winner!
Honor Books
Abel's Island by William Steig
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
 

1976

The Grey King by Susan Cooper--Winner!
Honor Books
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
 

1975

M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton--Winner!
Honor Books
Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and 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--Winner!
Honor Book
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
 

1973

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
 

1971

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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 Treviño--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Book
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
 

1964

It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville--Winner!
Honor Books
Rascal by Sterling North
The Loner by Ester Wier
 

1963

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle--Winner!
Honor Books
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge
 

1962

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald Johnson
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson)
 

1960

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold--Winner!
Honor Books
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald Johnson
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
 

1959

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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
The Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
 

1956

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner in the Sky by James Ullman
 

1954

And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold--Winner!
Honor Books
All Alone by Claire H. Bishop
Shadrach by Meindert DeJong
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff
 

1953

Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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 and Conrad Buff
 

1951

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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
Sound of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter and Marion Havighurst
 

1949

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
Pancakes-Paris by Claire H. 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--Winner!
Honor Books
Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
Big Tree by Mary and Conrad Buff
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett
 

1946

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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 Jeanette Easton
 

1944

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Have You Seen Tom Thumb by Mabel Leigh Hunt
 

1942

The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
Nino by Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and 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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
Honk, the Moose by Phil Strong
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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. (Allena Best)
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 Foreman Lewis--Winner!
Honor Books
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
The Railroad tp 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--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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 Julia 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 and Margaret Johansen
 

1930

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field--Winner!
Honor Books
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--Winner!
Honor Books
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 Eleanor Whitney
 

1928

Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji--Winner!
Honor Books
The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker
 

1927

Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James--Winner!
 

1926

Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman--Winner!
Honor Books
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum
 

1925

Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger--Winner!
Honor Books
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
 

1924

The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes--Winner!
 

1923

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting--Winner!
 

1922

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon--Winner!
Honor Books
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