• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

• 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

• The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
• A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
• Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

• 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

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

• Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

The 1990s
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• Holes by Louis Sachar

• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Lilly's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

• The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

• The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
• Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

• Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

• Afternoon the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

• Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

1988 Winner

• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

• After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
• Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

• Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
• Doctor DeSeto by William Steig
• Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

• A Visit to Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegel

• Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

• The Fledging The Fledging by Jane Langton
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

• A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830 - 1832 by Joan W. Blos

• The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kheridan

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

• Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
• Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

1977 Honor
Books

• Abel's Island by William Steig
• A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

• The Grey King by Susan Cooper

• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

• M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

• Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

• The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

• The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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

• Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula LeGuin
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatly Snyder

• Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

• Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbit
• Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

• Sounder by William H. Armstrong

• Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kisho
• The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
• Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

• The High Kingby Lloyd Alexander

1969 Honor
Books

• To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
• When Shiemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by I

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

• 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

• Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

1967 Honor
Books

• 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

• I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

• The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
• The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
• The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

• Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

1965 Honor
Books

• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

• It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville

• Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
• The Loner by Ester Wier

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

• Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas
• Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

• Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

1961 Honor
Books

• America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
• Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

• Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• America is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
• The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

• 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

• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

• The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
• Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
• The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
• Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

• Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson

1957 Honor Books

• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
• The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
• Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
• The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
• Black Fox of Lorne by Margueite de Angeli

• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

• The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
• Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

• The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

• Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
• Banner In the Sky by James Ullman

• ...And Now Miguel by Josehp Krumgold

• All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
• Shadrach by Meindert DeJong
• Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
• Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
• Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff

• Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
• Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
• Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

• 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

• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

• Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
• Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeannette Eaton
• Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
• The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

• Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
• The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
• Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
• George Washington by Genevieve Foster
• Song of the Pines: A Story of Norweigian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst

• King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

• 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

• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

• Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
• Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
• The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
• The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

• Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

• Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
• Big Tree by Mary and Conrad Buff
• The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
• The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher
• The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

• Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

• 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

• Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

• 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

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
• Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
• Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

• Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

• The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
• Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

• The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds

• 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

• Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry

• Blue Willow by Doris Gates
• Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

• Daniel Boone by James Dougherty

• 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

• Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

• Nino by Valenti Angelo
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
• Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
• Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
• Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

• The White Stag by Kate Seredy

• Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
• Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

• Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
• Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
• The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
• Winterbound by Margery Bianco
• The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
• Audobon by Constance Rourke

• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

• Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
• 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

• Dobry by Monica Shannon

• Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
• Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
• Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum

• Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs

• The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
• Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
• ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag
• Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry
• New Land by Sarah Schmidt
• 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

• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis

• 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

• Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

• The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
• Calico Bush by Rachel Field
• Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
• Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
• Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
• Truce of the World and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis

• The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

• Floating Island by Anne Parish
• 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
• Spice and the Devil's Cake by Agnes Hewes
• Meggy McIntosh 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

• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

• A Daughter of othe Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
• Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
• Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
• The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
• Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
• Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

• The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

• Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
• The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
• Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
• Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
• Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

• Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

• The Wonder Smith and His Son
• Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

• Smoky, the Cowhorseby Will James

• [None Recorded]

• Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

• The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery Padraic Colum

• Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger

• Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
• The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

• The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

• [None Recorded]

• The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting

• [None Recorded]

• The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem

• 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