| Year |
Author |
Title |
| 2010 |
Rebecca Stead |
When You Reach Me |
| 2009 |
Neil Gaiman |
The Graveyard Book |
| 2008 |
Laura Amy Schlitz |
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village |
| 2007 |
Susan Patron |
The Higher Power of Lucky |
| 2006 |
Lynne Rae Perkins |
Criss Cross |
| 2005 |
Cynthia Kadohata |
Kira-Kira |
| 2004 |
Kate Dicamillo |
Tale of Despereaux |
| 2003 |
Avi |
Crispin: Cross of Lead |
| 2002 |
Linda Sue Park |
A Single Shard |
| 2001 |
Richard Peck |
A Year Down Yonder |
| 2000 |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
Bud, Not Buddy |
| 1999 |
Louis Sachar |
Holes |
| 1998 |
Karen Hesse |
Out of the dust |
| 1997 |
Elaine L. Konigsburg |
The view from Saturday |
| 1996 |
Karen Cushman |
The midwife's apprentice |
| 1995 |
Sharon Creech |
Walk two moons |
| 1994 |
Lois Lowry |
Giver |
| 1993 |
Cynthia Rylant |
Missing May |
| 1992 |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Shiloh |
| 1991 |
Jerry Spinelli |
Maniac Magee |
| 1990 |
Lois Lowry |
Number the stars |
| 1989 |
Paul Fleishman |
Joyful noise: poems for two voices |
| 1988 |
Russell Freedman |
Lincoln: a photobiography |
| 1987 |
Sid Fleishman |
The whipping boy |
| 1986 |
Patricia McLachlan |
Sarah, plain and tall |
| 1985 |
Robin McKinley |
The hero and the crown |
| 1984 |
Beverly Cleary |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
| 1983 |
Cynthia Voigt |
Dicey's song |
| 1982 |
Nancy Willard |
A visit to William Blake's inn |
| 1981 |
Katherine Paterson |
Jacob I have loved |
| 1980 |
Joan Blos |
A gathering of days |
| 1979 |
Ellen Raskin |
The westing game |
| 1978 |
Katherine Paterson |
Bridge to Terabithia |
| 1977 |
Mildred Taylor |
Roll of thunder, hear my cry |
| 1976 |
Susan Cooper |
The grey king |
| 1975 |
Virginia Hamilton |
M.C. Higgins, the great |
| 1974 |
Paula Fox |
The slave dancer |
| 1973 |
Jean C. George |
Julie of the wolves |
| 1972 |
Robert C. O'Brien |
Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh |
| 1971 |
Betsy Byars |
The summer of the swans |
| 1970 |
William H. Armstrong |
Sounder |
| 1969 |
Lloyd Alexander |
The high king |
| 1968 |
Elaine Konigsburg |
From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
| 1967 |
Irene Hunt |
Up a road slowly |
| 1966 |
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
I, Juan de Pareja |
| 1965 |
Maia Wojciechowska |
Shadow of a bull |
| 1964 |
Emily C. Neville |
It's like this cat |
| 1963 |
Madeleine L'Engle |
A wrinkle in time |
| 1962 |
Elizabeth G. Speare |
The bronze bow |
| 1961 |
Scott O'Dell |
Island of the blue dolphins |
| 1960 |
Joseph Krumgold |
Onion John |
| 1959 |
Elizabeth G. Speare |
The witch of Backbird Pond |
| 1958 |
Harold V. Keith |
Rifles for Watie |
| 1957 |
Virginia Sorensen |
Miracles on Maple Hill |
| 1956 |
Jean Lee Latham |
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch |
| 1955 |
Meindert Dejong |
The wheel on the school |
| 1954 |
Joseph Krumgold |
...And now Miguel |
| 1953 |
Ann Nolan Clark |
Secret of the Andes |
| 1952 |
Eleanor Estes |
Ginger Pye |
| 1951 |
Elizabeth Yates |
Amos Fortune, Free Man |
| 1950 |
Marguerite de Angeli |
The door in the wall |
| 1949 |
Marguerite Henry |
King of the wind |
| 1948 |
William Pene du Bois |
The twenty-one balloons |
| 1947 |
Carolyn S. Bailey |
Miss Hickory |
| 1946 |
Lois Lenski |
Strawberry girl |
| 1945 |
Robert Lawson |
Rabbit Hill |
| 1944 |
Esther Forbes |
Johnny Tremain |
| 1943 |
Elizabeth Janet Gray |
Adam of the road |
| 1942 |
Walter D. Edmonds |
The matchlock gun |
| 1941 |
Armstrong Sperry |
Call it courage |
| 1940 |
James Daugherty |
Daniel Boone |
| 1939 |
Elizabeth Enright |
Thimble summer |
| 1938 |
Kate Seredy |
The white stag |
| 1937 |
Ruth Sawyer |
Roller skates |
| 1936 |
Carol Ryrie Brink |
Caddie Woodlawn |
| 1935 |
Monica Shannon |
Dobry |
| 1934 |
Cornelia Meigs |
Invincible Louisa |
| 1933 |
Elizabeth Lewis |
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze |
| 1932 |
Laura Armer |
Waterless mountain |
| 1931 |
Elizabeth Coatsworth |
The cat who went to heaven |
| 1930 |
Rachel Field |
Hitty, her first hundred years |
| 1929 |
Eric P. Kelly |
The trumpeter of Krakow |
| 1928 |
Dhan Mukerji |
Gay-neck |
| 1927 |
Will James |
Smoky |
| 1926 |
Arthur Chrisman |
Shen of the sea |
| 1925 |
Charles Finger |
Tales from Silver Lands |
| 1924 |
Charles Hawes |
The dark frigate |
| 1923 |
Hugh Lofting |
The voyages of Dr. Dolittle |
| 1922 |
Henrik van Loon |
The story of mankind |
