2005
Winner -
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2005 Honor Books:
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 Winner -
The Tale of Despereaux:
Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
2004 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 Winner -
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
2003 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
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
2002 Winner -
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
2002 Honor Books:
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001 Winner -
A Year Down
Yonder by by Richard Peck
2001 Honor Books:
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
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 Sorenson
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
Updated:
August 28, 2008.
