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| 2013 Winner The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate |
2013 Honors Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage |
| 2012 Winner Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos |
2012 Honors Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin |
| 2011 Winner Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool |
2011 Honors Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm |
| 2010 Winner When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead |
2010 Honors Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin |
| 2009 Winner The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman |
2009 Honors The Underneath by Kathi Appelt The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle Savvy by Ingrid Law After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2008 Winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Schlitz |
2008 Honors Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson |
| 2007 Winner The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron |
2007 Honors Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson Rules by Cynthia Lord |
| 2006 Winner Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins |
2006 Honors Whittington by Alan Armstrong Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Princess Academy by Shannon Hale Show Way by Jaqueline Woodson |
| 2005 Winner Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata |
2005 Honors 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 by Kate DiCamillo |
2004 Honors 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 Honors The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Riley 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 Honors Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson |
| 2001 Winner A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck |
2001 Honors 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 Winner Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis |
2000 Honors Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola |
| 1999 Winner Holes by Louis Sachar |
1999 Honors A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck |
| 1998 Winner Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse |
1998 Honors Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Lily's Crossing by Patricia Riley Giff Wringer by Jerry Spinelli |
| 1997 Winner The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg |
1997 Honors 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 Winner The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman |
1996 Honors What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner The Great Fire by Jim Murphy |
| 1995 Winner Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech |
1995 Honors Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer |
| 1994 Winner The Giver by Lois Lowry |
1994 Honors Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly Dragon's Gate by Lawrence Yep Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman |
| 1993 Winner Missing May by Cynthia Rylant |
1993 Honors 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 Winner Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
1992 Honors Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman |
| 1991 Winner Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli |
1991 Honors The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi |
| 1990 Winner Number the Stars by Lois Lowry |
1990 Honors Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen |
| 1989 Winner Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman |
1989 Honors In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers |
| 1988 Winner Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freeman |
1988 Honors After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer Hatchet by Gary Paulsen |
| 1987 Winner The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman |
1987 Honors 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 Winner Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan |
1986 Honors Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg Dogsong by Gary Paulsen |
| 1985 Winner The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley |
1985 Honors Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox |
| 1984 Winner Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary |
1984 Honors The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt Sugaring Time by Katherine Lasky The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain |
| 1983 Winner Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt |
1983 Honors 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 Winner A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard |
1982 Honors Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal |
| 1981 Winner Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson |
1981 Honors The Fledgling by Jane Langton A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle |
| 1980 Winner A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos |
1980 Honors The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian |
| 1979 Winner The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin |
1979 Honors The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson |
| 1978 Winner Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson |
1978 Honors Ramona and her Father by Beverly Cleary Anpao: an American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater |
| 1977 Winner Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor |
1977 Honors Abel's Island by William Steig A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond |
| 1976 Winner The Grey King by Susan Cooper |
1976 Honors The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep |
| 1975 Winner M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton |
1975 Honors 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 Winner The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox |
1974 Honors The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper |
| 1973 Winner Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George |
1973 Honors Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| 1972 Winner Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien |
1972 Honors 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 Winner Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars |
1971 Honors Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell |
| 1970 Winner Sounder by William H. Armstrong |
1970 Honors Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor The Many Ways of Seeing: an Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Gaylord Moore Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele |
| 1969 Winner The High King by Lloyd Alexander |
1969 Honors To Be a Slave by Julius Lester When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1968 Winner From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg |
1968 Honors 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 Winner Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt |
1967 Honors 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 Winner I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
1966 Honors The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz |
| 1965 Winner Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska |
1965 Honors Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt |
| 1964 Winner It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville |
1964 Honors Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North The Loner by Ester Wier |
| 1963 Winner A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle |
1963 Honors Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas (pseud. Leclaire Alger) Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge |
| 1962 Winner The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare |
1962 Honors Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz |
| 1961 Winner Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell |
1961 Honors 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 Winner Onion John by Joseph Krumgold |
1960 Honors 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 Winner The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare |
1959 Honors 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 Winner Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith |
1958 Honors 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 Winner Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen |
1957 Honors Old Yeller by Fred Gipson The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingman Judson The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli |
| 1956 Winner Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham |
1956 Honors The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen |
| 1955 Winner The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong |
1955 Honors The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh Banner In The Sky by James Ullman |
| 1954 Winner ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold |
1954 Honors All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop Shadrach by Meindert DeJong Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingman Judson Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff |
| 1953 Winner Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark |
1953 Honors 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 Winner Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes |
1952 Honors 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 Winner Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates |
1951 Honors 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 Winner The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli |
1950 Honors Tree of Freedom 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 Winner King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry |
1949 Honors Seabird by Holling C. Holling Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps |
| 1948 Winner The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois |
1948 Honors Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffiger The Quaint and Curious Story 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 Winner Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
1947 Honors 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 Winner Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski |
1946 Honors Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Merguerite Henry The Moved-Outers by Glorence Crannell Means Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston New Found World by Katherine Shippen |
| 1945 Winner Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson |
1945 Honors 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 Winner Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes |
1944 Honors These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder Fog Magic by Julia Sauer Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates |
| 1943 Winner Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray |
1943 Honors The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt |
| 1942 Winner The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds |
1942 Honors 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 Row Gaggin |
| 1941 Winner Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry |
1941 Honors 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 Winner Daniel Boone by James Daugherty |
1940 Honors 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 Winner Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright |
1939 Honors 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 Winner The White Stag by Kate Seredy |
1938 Honors Four and Twenty Blackbirds compiled by Helen Dean Fish Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman Bright Island by Mabel Robinson On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| 1937 Winner Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer |
1937 Honors Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lensky 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 Winner Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink |
1936 Honors 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 Winner The Dobry by Monica Shannon |
1935 Honors Pageant of Chinese History Elizabeth Seeger Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum |
| 1934 Winner Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs |
1934 Honors Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag Winged Girl of Knossos by Genevieve Foster 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 Winner Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis |
1933 Honors 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 Winner Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer |
1932 Honors 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 Lowensbery Jane's Island by Marjoree Allee Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis |
| 1931 Winner The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth |
1931 Honors 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 Johnson |
| 1930 Winner Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field |
1930 Honors A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madam 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 Winner The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly |
1929 Honors Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs Runaway Papoose Grace Moon Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney |
| 1928 Winner Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
1928 Honors The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker |
| 1927 Winner Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James |
1927 Honors None listed |
| 1926 Winner Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
1926 Honors The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum |
| 1925 Winner Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger |
1925 Honors Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Anne Carroll Moore The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish |
| 1924 Winner The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes |
1924 Honors None listed |
| 1923 Winner The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting |
1923 Honors None listed |
| 1922 Winner The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon |
1922 Honors 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 |