| Roth, Susan L. & Trumbore, Cindy | 2012 |
| The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families | |
| Conkling, Winifred | 2012 |
| Sylvia & Aki | |
| Glaser, Linda | 2011 |
| Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | |
| Park, Linda Sue | 2011 |
| A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story | |
| Winter, Jeanette | 2010 |
| Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan | |
| Partridge, Elizabeth | 2010 |
| Marching for Freedom | |
| Nivola, Claire | 2009 |
| Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai | |
| Engle, Margarita | 2009 |
| The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | |
| Brimner, Larry | 2008 |
| We are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin | |
| McCully, Emily Arnold | 2008 |
| The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave Finds Fr... | |
| Kadohata, Cynthia | 2007 |
| Weedflower | |
| Lee-Tai, Amy | 2007 |
| A Place Where Sunflowers Grow | |
| Blumenthal, Karen | 2006 |
| Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX | |
| Alarcon, Francisco | 2006 |
| Poems to Dream Together=Poemas para sonar juntos | |
| Haskins, Jim | 2006 |
| Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights | |
| Bausum, Ann | 2005 |
| With Courage and Cloth | |
| Landowne, Youme | 2005 |
| Selavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope | |
| Naidoo, Beverley | 2004 |
| Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope | |
| Krull, Kathleen | 2004 |
| Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez | |
| Ellis, Deborah | 2003 |
| Parvana's Journey | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | 2003 |
| Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam | |
| Rappaport, Doreen | 2002 |
| Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| Naidoo, Beverley | 2002 |
| Other Side of Truth | |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz | 2001 |
| Esperanza Rising | |
| Skarmeta, Antonio | 2001 |
| The Composition | |
| Bridges, Ruby | 2000 |
| Through My Eyes | |
| McGill, Alice | 2000 |
| Molly Bannaky | |
| Wolff, Virginia Euwer | 1999 |
| Bat 6 | |
| Aliki | 1999 |
| Painted Words/Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story | |
| Nye, Naomi Shihab | 1998 |
| Habibi | |
| Hearne, Betsy | 1998 |
| Seven Brave Women | |
| Krull, Kathleen | 1997 |
| Wilma Unlimited | |
| Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | 1997 |
| Growing Up in Coal Country | |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | 1996 |
| The Well | |
| Freedman, Russell | 1995 |
| Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor | |
| Nye, Naomi Shihab | 1995 |
| Sitti's Secrets | |
| Levine, Ellen | 1994 |
| Freedom's Children | |
| Littlechild, George | 1994 |
| This Land is My Land | |
| Ringgold, Faith | 1993 |
| Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky | |
| Temple, Frances | 1993 |
| A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti | |
| Buss, Fran Leeper | 1992 |
| Journey of the Sparrows | |
| Durell, Ann and Marilyn Sachs | 1991 |
| The Big Book for Peace | |
| McKissack, Patricia and Fredrick | 1990 |
| A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter | |
| Hamilton, Virginia | 1989 |
| Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave | |
| Gordon, Sheila | 1988 |
| Waiting for the Rain: A Novel of South Africa | |
| Vigna, Judith | 1987 |
| Nobody Wants a Nuclear War | |
| Meltzer, Milton | 1986 |
| Ain't Gonna Study War No More | |
| Vinke, Hermann | 1985 |
| The Short Life of Sophie Scholl | |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | 1984 |
| Rain of Fire | |
| Maruki, Toshi | 1983 |
| Hiroshima No Pika | |
| Lord, Athena | 1982 |
| A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind | |
| White, Florence Meiman | 1981 |
| First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin | |
| Kherdian, David | 1980 |
| The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl | |
| Highwater, Jamake | 1979 |
| Many Smokes, Many Moons | |
| Yep, Laurence | 1978 |
| Child of the Owl | |
| Meltzer, Milton | 1977 |
| Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust | |
| Greenfield, Eloise | 1976 |
| Paul Robeson | |
| Pomerantz, Charlotte | 1975 |
| The Princess and the Admiral | |
| Mohr, Nicholasa | 1974 |
| Nilda | |
| Hirsch, S. Carl | 1973 |
| The Riddle of Racism | |
| Underwood, Betty | 1972 |
| The Tamarack Tree | |
| Meigs, Cornelia | 1971 |
| Jane Addams: Pioneer of Social Justice | |
| Taylor, Theodore | 1970 |
| The Cay | |
| Hautzig, Esther | 1969 |
| The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia | |
| Haugaard, Erick | 1968 |
| The Little Fishes | |
| Burch, Robert | 1967 |
| Queenie Peavy | |
| Bradley, Duane | 1965 |
| Meeting with a Stranger | |
| Johnson, Ryerson | 1963 |
| The Monkey and the Wild, Wild Wind | |
| Sommerfelt, Aimee | 1962 |
| The Road to Agra | |
| Steele, William | 1958 |
| The Perilous Road | |
| Bontemps, Arna | 1956 |
| Story of the Negro | |
| Yates, Elizabeth | 1955 |
| Rainbow Round the World | |
| Ketchum, Jean | 1954 |
| Stick-in-the-Mud | |