| Rubin, Susan Goldman | 2012 |
| Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein | |
| Capaldi, Gina | 2012 |
| Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkal-Sa, Native American | |
| Brimner, Larry Dane | 2012 |
| Black and White | |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis | 2011 |
| Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down | |
| Yoo, Paula | 2010 |
| Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story | |
| Hoose, Phillip | 2010 |
| Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | |
| Bausum, Ann | 2010 |
| Denied, Detained, Deported | |
| Giovanni, Nikki | 2009 |
| Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship | |
| Jimenez, Francisco | 2009 |
| Reaching Out | |
| Wise, Bill | 2008 |
| Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer | |
| Fleischman, John | 2008 |
| Black and White Airmen: Their True History | |
| Haskins, Jim | 2007 |
| John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement | |
| Freedman, Russell | 2007 |
| Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
| Oppenheim, Joanne | 2007 |
| Dear Miss Breed | |
| Raven, Margot Theis | 2006 |
| Let Them Play | |
| Cruz, Barbara | 2006 |
| Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers | |
| Miller, Calvin Craig | 2006 |
| No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement | |
| Bruchac, Joseph | 2005 |
| Jim Thorpe's Bright Path | |
| Freedman, Russell | 2005 |
| The Voice that Challenged a Nation | |
| Mayer, Robert | 2005 |
| The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | |
| Erdrich, Liselotte | 2004 |
| Sacagawea | |
| Tackach, James | 2004 |
| Early Black Reformers | |
| Griswold del Castillo, Richard | 2003 |
| Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice | |
| Cooper, Michael | 2003 |
| Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp | |
| Fireside, Harvey | 2003 |
| The 'Mississippi Burning' Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Tri... | |
| Cruz, Barbara | 2002 |
| Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity | |
| Weatherford, Carole | 2001 |
| The Sound that Jazz Makes | |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis | 2001 |
| Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters | |
| Marrin, Albert | 2001 |
| Sitting Bull and His World | |
| Bridges, Ruby | 2000 |
| Through My Eyes | |
| Linnea, Sharon | 2000 |
| Princess Ka'iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People | |
| Duggleby, John | 1999 |
| Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence | |
| Wolfe, Rinna Evelyn | 1999 |
| Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble | |
| Tillage, Leon | 1998 |
| Leon's Story | |
| Meltzer, Milton | 1998 |
| Langston Hughes | |
| Ghazi, Suhaib Hamid | 1997 |
| Ramadan | |
| Haskins, Jim | 1997 |
| The Harlem Renaissance | |
| Roessel, Monty | 1996 |
| Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave | |
| Levine, Ellen | 1996 |
| A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War ... | |
| Ferris, Jeri | 1995 |
| What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson | |
| Mettger, Zak | 1995 |
| Till Victory is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War | |
| Lyons, Mary | 1994 |
| Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter | |
| Haskins, James | 1994 |
| The March on Washington | |
| Walter, Mildred Pitts | 1993 |
| Mississippi Challenge | |
| McKissack, Pat | 1993 |
| Madam C.J. Walker | |
| Ferris, Jeri | 1992 |
| Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte | |
| Stanley, Fay | 1992 |
| The Last Princess | |
| Scheader, Catherine | 1991 |
| Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman | |
| Lyons, Mary | 1991 |
| Sorrow's Kitchen | |
| Jenness, Aylette | 1990 |
| In Two Worlds: A Yup'ik Eskimo Family | |
| Larsen, Rebecca | 1990 |
| Paul Robeson | |
| Ferris, Jeri | 1989 |
| Walking the Road to Freedom | |
| Patterson, Charles | 1989 |
| Marian Anderson | |
| Haskins, James | 1988 |
| Black Music in America: A History Through Its People | |
| Hirschfelder, Arlene | 1987 |
| Happily May I Walk | |
| Ashabranner, Brent | 1986 |
| Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America | |
| Ashabranner, Brent | 1985 |
| To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today | |
| Fincher, E.B. | 1984 |
| Mexico and the United States | |
| Ashabranner, Brent | 1983 |
| Morning Star, Black Sun | |
| Garver, Susan | 1982 |
| Coming to North America from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico | |
| Meltzer, Milton | 1981 |
| The Chinese Americans | |
| Wood, Nancy | 1980 |
| War Cry on a Prayer Feather | |
| Nabokov, Peter | 1979 |
| Native American Testimony | |
| Goodsell, Jane | 1978 |
| The Biography of Daniel Inouye | |
| Sterling, Dorothy | 1977 |
| The Trouble They Seen | |
| Yep, Laurence | 1976 |
| Dragonwings | |
| Jackson, Jesse | 1975 |
| Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord | |
| Greenfield, Eloise | 1974 |
| Rosa Parks | |