1999

Holes by Louis Sachar

1998 

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse 

1997 

The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

1996 

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

1995 

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

1994 

The Giver by Lois Lowry

1993 

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

1992 

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1991 

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

1990 

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

1989 

Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman

1988 

Lincoln: a Photobiography by Russell Freedman

1987 

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

1986 

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

1985 

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

1984 

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

1983 

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

1982 

A Visit To William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard

1981 

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

1980 

A Gathering Of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 by Joan Blos

1979 

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

1978 

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

1977 

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

1976 

The Grey King by Susan Cooper

1975 

M.C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton

1974 

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

1973 

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

1972 

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

1971 

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

1970 

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

1969 

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

1968 

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

1967 

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

1966 

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borten de Trevino

1965 

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

1964 

It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville

1963 

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

1962 

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

1961 

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

1960 

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

1959 

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

1958 

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

1957 

Miracleson Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson

1956 

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

1955 

The Wheel on the School by Meindert Dejong

1954 

And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

1953 

Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

1952 

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

1951 

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

1950 

The Door In The Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

1949 

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

1948 

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

1947 

Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

1946 

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

1945 

Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

1944 

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

1943 

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1942 

The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

1941 

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

1940 

Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

1939 

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

1938 

The White Stag by Kate Seredy

1937 

Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

1936 

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

1935 

Dobry by Monica Shannon

1934 

Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs

1933 

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

1932 

Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

1931 

The Cat Who Went To Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

1930 

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

1929 

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

1928 

Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

1927 

Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James

1926 

Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

1925 

Tales From The Silver Lands by Charles Finger

1924 

The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes

1923 

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

1922 

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon