The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean-Winner!

Honor Books

Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill

2007

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang--Winner!

Honor Books

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

2006

Looking For Alaska by John Green--Winner!

Honor Books

Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
John Lennon: All I want is the truth, a Photographic Biography by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till written by Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Philippe Lardy

2005

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff--Winner!
 

Honor Books

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Chanda's Secrets by Allen Stratton

2004

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson--Winner!

Honor Books

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Keesha's House by Helen Frost Farrar
Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

2003

Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers--Winner!

Honor Books

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

2002

A Step from Heaven by An Na--Winner!

Honor Books

The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century Art by Jan Greenberg
Freewill by Chris Lynch
True Believer by Virginian Euwer Wolfe

2001

Kit's Wilderness by David Almond--Winner!

Honor Books

Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman

2000

Monster by Walter Dean Myers--Winner!

Honor Books

Skellig by David Almond
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger