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  • 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
  • 2006: Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins
  • 2005: Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
  • 2004: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
  • 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
  • 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
  • 2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
  • 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • 1999: Holes by Louis Sacher
  • 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: Poems for Two Voices 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: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
  • 1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
  • 1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
  • 1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
  • 1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  • 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. 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 Borton de Trevino
  • 1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
  • 1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily 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 Joseph Krumgold
  • 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
  • 1958: Rifles of Watie by Harold Keith
  • 1957: Miracles on 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
  • 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 Elizabeth Janet Gray
  • 1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter 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: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Conelia Meigs
  • 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth 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 byArthur Bowie Chrisman
  • 1925: Tales From Silver Lands by Charles Finger
  • 1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
  • 1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
  • 1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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