coldI highly recommend the titles in italics.
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 The Tale of Despereaux
2003 Avi Crispin: The 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 E. L. Konigsburg The View from Saturday
1996 Karen Cushman The Midwife's Apprentice
1995 Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons
1994 Lois Lowry The Giver
1993 Cynthia Rylant Missing May
1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Shiloh
1991 Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee
1990 Lois Lowry Number the Stars
1989 Paul Fleischman Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1988 Russell Freedman Lincoln: A Photobiography
1987 Sid Fleischman The Whipping Boy
1986 Patricia MacLachlan 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 Have I Loved
1980 Joan Blos A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
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 Craighead George Julie of the Wolves
1972 Robert C. O'Brien Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971 Betsy Byars Summer of the Swans
1970 William H. Armstrong Sounder
1969 Lloyd Alexander The High King
1968 E. L. Konigsburg From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1967 Irene Hunt Up a Road Slowly
1966 Elizabeth Borton de Treviño I, Juan de Pareja
1965 Maia Wojciechowska Shadow of a Bull
1964 Emily Cheney Neville It's Like This, Cat
1963 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time
1962 Elizabeth George Speare The Bronze Bow
1961 Scott O'Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins
1960 Joseph Krumgold Onion John
1959 Elizabeth George Speare The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1958 Harold Keith Rifles for Watie
1957 Virginia Sorenson 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 Pène du Bois The Twenty-One Balloons
1947 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Miss Hickory
1946 Lois Lenski Strawberry Girl
1945 Robert Lawson Rabbit Hill
1944 Esther Forbes Johnny Tremain
1943 Elizabeth Gray Vining 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 Foreman Lewis Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1932 Laura Adams 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 Gopal Mukerji Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1927 Will James Smoky the Cow Horse
1926 Arthur Bowie Chrisman Shen of the Sea
1925 Charles Finger Tales from Silver Lands
1924 Charles Hawes The Dark Frigate
1923 Hugh Lofting The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
1922 Hendrik Willem van Loon The Story of Mankind
2008
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
2007
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord
2006
Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Nonfiction, an imprint of Scholastic
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
2005
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
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
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
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001
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
Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
1999
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
1998
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
1997
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer Richard Jackson
The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw Margaret
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
1996
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner Margaret K.
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
1995
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman Clarion
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer Jackson
1994
Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
1993
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
Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi Jackson
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman Holiday House
1991
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Jackson
1990
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle Jackson
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen Jackson
1989
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
1988
After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987
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
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg Lothrop
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
1985
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
1984
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
1983
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
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
1981
The Fledgling by Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
1980
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
1979
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Crowell
1978
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
1977
Abel's Island by William Steig
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
1976
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
1975
Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin Dutton
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
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
1973
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss Crowell
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1972
Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1971
Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
1970
Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor Pantheon
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
1969
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1968
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
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
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander Holt
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell Pantheon
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
1965
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Follett
1964
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North Dutton
The Loner by Ester Wier McKay
1963
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. Leclaire Alger Holt
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge
1962
Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Coward
Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz
1961
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
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Dutton
America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
1959
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
The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz Westminster
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko Crowell
1957
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson Follett
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
1956
The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
1955
Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner In The Sky by James Ullman
1954
All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
Shadrach by Meindert DeJong
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson Follett
Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff
1953
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Coward
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster
1952
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
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 Follett
The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish
1950
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz Longmans
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 Winston
1949
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
Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger Abingdon
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander Holt
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
1947
Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes Messner
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
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
New Found World by Katherine Shippen
1945
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
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates Coward
1943
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt
1942
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 Roe Gaggin
1941
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr Crowell
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall
1940
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
Nino by Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford Holt
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1938
Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1937
Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
Winterbound by Margery Bianco Margery Williams
The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
Audubon by Constance Rourke
1936
Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong Dodd
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 Winston
1935
Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger Longmans
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda van Stockum
1934
The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág Coward
Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. Allena Best
New Land by Sarah Schmidt McBride
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
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
The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens Coward-McCann
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery Longmans
Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis
1931
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 Dutton
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 Johansen
1930
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely Longmans
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young Longmans
Vaino by Julia Davis Adams Dutton
Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift
1929
Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett Longmans
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág Coward
The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock Dutton
Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney
1928
The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young Longmans
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker
1927 None
1926
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum
1925
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
1924 None
1923 None
1922
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
