2008 Honors

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Schlitz

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

2007 Honors

The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord

2006 Honors

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

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 Honors

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 Honors

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

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

2003 Honors

Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

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

2002 Honors

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001 Winner

2001 Honors

A Year Down Yonder 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 Winner

2000 Honors

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

1999 Winner

1999 Honors

Holes by Louis Sachar

A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

1998 Winner

1998 Honors

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Riley Giff
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

1997 Winner

1997 Honors

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 Winner

1996 Honors

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

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

1995 Honors

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1994 Winner

1994 Honors

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's Gate by Lawrence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

1993 Winner

1993 Honors

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 Winner

1992 Honors

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 Winner

1991 Honors

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990 Winner

1990 Honors

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 Winner

1989 Honors

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 Winner

1988 Honors

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freeman

After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1987 Winner

1987 Honors

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 Winner

1986 Honors

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

1985 Winner

1985 Honors

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 Winner

1984 Honors

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

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

1983 Honors

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 Winner

1982 Honors

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 a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

1981 Winner

1981 Honors

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

The Fledgling by Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle

1980 Winner

1980 Honors

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 Winner

1979 Honors

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978 Winner

1978 Honors

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Ramona and her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao: an American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

1977 Winner

1977 Honors

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 Winner

1976 Honors

The Grey King by Susan Cooper

The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep

1975 Winner

1975 Honors

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 Winner

1974 Honors

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

1973 Winner

1973 Honors

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 Winner

1972 Honors

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 Winner

1971 Honors

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 Winner

1970 Honors

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

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

1969 Honors

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 Winner

1968 Honors

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 Winner

1967 Honors

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 Winner

1966 Honors

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 Winner

1965 Honors

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964 Winner

1964 Honors

It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville

Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
The Loner by Ester Wier

1963 Winner

1963 Honors

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas (pseud. Leclaire Alger)
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1962 Winner

1962 Honors

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 Winner

1961 Honors

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 Winner

1960 Honors

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 Winner

1959 Honors

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 Winner

1958 Honors

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 Winner

1957 Honors

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 Ingman Judson
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

1956 Winner

1956 Honors

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean 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 Winner

1955 Honors

The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

1954 Winner

1954 Honors

...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 Ingman Judson
Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff

1953 Winner

1953 Honors

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

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 Winner

1950 Honors

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

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

1949 Honors

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

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

1948 Honors

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

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

1947 Honors

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 Winner

1946 Honors

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

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

1945 Honors

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 Winner

1944 Honors

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 Winner

1943 Honors

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray

The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

1942 Winner

1942 Honors

The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds

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

1941 Honors

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 Winner

1940 Honors

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 Winner

1939 Honors

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 Winner

1938 Honors

The White Stag by Kate Seredy

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

1937 Honors

Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

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

1936 Honors

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 Winner

1935 Honors

The Dobry by Monica Shannon

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

1934 Honors

Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs

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

1933 Honors

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 Winner

1932 Honors

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 Lowensbery
Jane's Island by Marjoree Allee
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis

1931 Winner

1931 Honors

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 Johnson

1930 Winner

1930 Honors

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

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

1929 Honors

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

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

1928 Honors

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 Winner

1927 Honors

Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

None listed

1926 Winner

1926 Honors

Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

1925 Winner

1925 Honors

Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger

Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Anne Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1924 Winner

1924 Honors

The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

None listed

1923 Winner

1923 Honors

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

None listed

1922 Winner

1922 Honors

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