2007: The Higher Power of Lucky (J Patron)
2006: Criss Cross (YA Perkins)
2005: Kira-Kira (YA Kadohata)
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (J DiCamillo)
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (YA Avi)
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (J Park)
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (YA Peck)
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (J Curtis)
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (YA Sachar)
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (YA Hesse)
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (J Konigsburg)
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (YA Cushman)
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (YA Creech)
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry (J Lowry)
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (J Rylant)
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (J Naylor)
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (YA Spinelli)
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (J Lowry)
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (J 811 Fleischman)
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (J-B Lincoln)
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (J Fleischman)
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (J MacLachlan)
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (J McKinley)
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (J Cleary)
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (J Voigt)
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (J 811 Willard)
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (J Patterson)
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (J Blos)
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (J Raskin)
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (J Paterson)
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (J Taylor)
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (J Cooper)
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (J Hamilton)
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (J Fox)
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (J George)
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (J O'Brien)
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (J Byars)
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong (J Armstrong)
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander (J Alexander)
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (J Konigsburg)
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (J Hunt)
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (J Trevino)
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (J Wojciechowska)
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (J Neville)
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (J L’Engle)
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (J Speare)
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (J O’Dell)
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (J Krumgold)
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (J Speare)
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (J Keith)
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson (J Sorenson)
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (J Latham)
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (J De Jong)
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (J Krumgold)
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (J Clark)
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (J Estes)
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (J-B Fortune)
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (J De Angeli)
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (J Henry)
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (J DuBois)
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (J Bailey)
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (J Lenski)
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (J Lawson)
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (J Forbes)
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (J Gray)
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (J Edmonds)
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (J Sperry)
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (J-B Boone)*
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (J Enright)
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (J 398 Seredy)
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (J Sawyer)
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (J Brink)
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon (J Shannon)
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
by Cornelia Meigs (J-B Alcott)
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (J Lewis)
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (J Armer)
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (J Coatsworth)
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (J Field)
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (J Kelly)
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (J Mukerji)
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (J James)
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (J Chrisman)
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (J 398 Finger)*
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (J Hawes)
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (J Lofting)
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (J 909 Van Loon)
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