2016
The Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
The War That Saved my by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
2015
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
2014
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
by Kate DiCamillo
Doll Bones by
Holly Black
The Year of Billy Miller by
Kevin Henkes
One Came Home by Amy
Timberlake
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
2013
The One And Only Ivan by
Katherine Applegate
Splendors and Glooms by Laura
Amy Schlitz
Bomb:
The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Powerful Weapon by Steve
Sheinkin
Three Times Lucky by
Shiela Turnage
2012
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack
Gantos
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
2011
Moon over Manifest by Clare
Vanderpool
Turtle in Paradise by
Jennifer L. Holm
Heart of a Samurai by Margi
Preus
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce
Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen
One Crazy Summer by Rita
Williams-Garcia
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, illus. by
Dave McKean
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small
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, illus.
by Matt Phelan
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, illustrated by S.D.
Schindler
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan
Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott
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: Being the Story of a
Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate
DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
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 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
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
Britt
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, pseud. (George Thompson)
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 Joan
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, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
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 Edmond
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. (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 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
