| Gantos, Jack | 2012 |
| Dead End in Norvelt | |
| Vanderpool, Clare | 2011 |
| Moon Over Manifest | |
| Stead, Rebecca | 2010 |
| When You Reach Me | |
| Gaiman, Neil | 2009 |
| The Graveyard Book | |
| Schlitz, Laura Amy | 2008 |
| Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | |
| Patron, Susan | 2007 |
| The Higher Power of Lucky | |
| Perkins, Lynne Rae | 2006 |
| Criss Cross | |
| Kadohata, Cynthia | 2005 |
| Kira Kira | |
| DiCamillo, Kate | 2004 |
| Tale of Desperaux | |
| Avi | 2003 |
| Crispin: The Cross of Lead | |
| Park, Linda Sue | 2002 |
| A Single Shard | |
| Peck, Richard | 2001 |
| A Year Down Yonder | |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | 2000 |
| Bud, Buddy | |
| Sachar, Louis | 1999 |
| Holes | |
| Hesse, Karen | 1998 |
| Out of the Dust | |
| Konigsburg, E. L. | 1997 |
| The View From Saturday | |
| Cushman, Karen | 1996 |
| The Midwife's Apprentice | |
| Creech, Sharon | 1995 |
| Walk Two Moons | |
| Lowry, Lois | 1994 |
| The Giver | |
| Rylant, Cynthia | 1993 |
| Missing May | |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 1992 |
| Shiloh | |
| Spinelli, Jerry | 1991 |
| Maniac Magee | |
| Lowry, Lois | 1990 |
| Number the Stars | |
| Fleischman, Paul | 1989 |
| Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | |
| Freedman, Russell | 1988 |
| Lincoln: A Photobiography | |
| Fleischman, Sid | 1987 |
| The Whipping Boy | |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | 1986 |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | |
| McKinley, Robin | 1985 |
| The Hero & the Crown | |
| Cleary, Beverly | 1984 |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw | |
| Voigt, Cynthia | 1983 |
| Dicey's Song | |
| Willard, Nancy | 1982 |
| A Visit to William Blake's Inn | |
| Paterson, Katherine | 1981 |
| Jacob Have I Loved | |
| Blos, Joan W | 1980 |
| A Gathering of Days | |
| Raskin, Ellen | 1979 |
| The Westing Game | |
| Paterson, Katherine | 1978 |
| Bridge to Terabithia | |
| Taylor, Mildred | 1977 |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | |
| Cooper, Susan | 1976 |
| The Grey King | |
| Hamilton, Virginia | 1975 |
| M. C. Higgins, the Great | |
| Fox, Paula | 1974 |
| The Slave Dancer | |
| George, Jean Craighead | 1973 |
| Julie of the Wolves | |
| O'Brien, Robert C. | 1972 |
| Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of Nimh | |
| Byars, Betsy (Cromer) | 1971 |
| The Summer of the Swans | |
| Armstrong, William Howard | 1970 |
| Sounder | |
| Alexander, Lloyd | 1969 |
| The High King | |
| Konigsburg, E. L. | 1968 |
| From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | |
| Hunt, Irene. | 1967 |
| Up a Road Slowly | |
| de Trevino, Elizabeth Borton | 1966 |
| I, Juan de Pareja | |
| Wojciechowska, Maia | 1965 |
| Shadow of a Bull | |
| Neville, Emily Cheney | 1964 |
| It's Like This, Cat | |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | 1963 |
| A Wrinkle in Time | |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | 1962 |
| The Bronze Bow | |
| O'Dell, Scott | 1961 |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | |
| Krumgold, Joseph | 1960 |
| Onion John | |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | 1959 |
| Witch of Blackbird Pond | |
| Keith, Harold | 1958 |
| Rifles for Watie | |
| Sorensen, Virginia Eggertsen | 1957 |
| Miracles on Maple Hill | |
| Latham, Jean Lee | 1956 |
| Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | |
| De Jong, Meindert | 1955 |
| The Wheel on the School | |
| Krumgold, Joseph | 1954 |
| And Now Miguel | |
| Clark, Ann Nolan | 1953 |
| Secret of the Andes | |
| Estes, Eleanor | 1952 |
| Ginger Pye | |
| Yates, Elizabeth | 1951 |
| Amos Fortune, Free Man | |
| De Angeli, Marguerite | 1950 |
| Door in the Wall | |
| Henry, Marguerite | 1949 |
| King of the Wind | |
| Du Bois, William Pene | 1948 |
| The Twenty-One Balloons | |
| Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin | 1947 |
| Miss Hickory | |
| Lenski, Lois | 1946 |
| Strawberry Girl | |
| Lawson, Robert | 1945 |
| Rabbit Hill | |
| Forbes, Esther | 1944 |
| Johnny Tremain | |
| Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1943 |
| Adam of the Road | |
| Edmonds, Walter | 1942 |
| The Matchlock Gun | |
| Sperry, Armstrong | 1941 |
| Call It Courage | |
| Daugherty, James | 1940 |
| Daniel Boone | |
| Enright, Elizabeth | 1939 |
| Thimble Summer | |
| Seredy, Kate | 1938 |
| The White Stag | |
| Sawyer, Ruth | 1937 |
| Roller Skates | |
| Brink, Carol Ryrie | 1936 |
| Caddie Woodlawn | |
| Shannon, Monica | 1935 |
| Dobry | |
| Meigs, Cornelia | 1934 |
| Invincible Louisa | |
| Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman | 1933 |
| Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | |
| Armer, Laura Adams | 1932 |
| Waterless Mountain | |
| Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane | 1931 |
| The Cat Who Went to Heaven | |
| Field, Rachel | 1930 |
| Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | |
| Kelly, Eric Philbrook | 1929 |
| Trumpeter of Krakow | |
| Mukerji, Dhan Gopal | 1928 |
| Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | |
| James, Will | 1927 |
| Smoky, the Cowhorse | |
| Chrisman, Arthur | 1926 |
| Shen of the Sea | |
| Finger, Charles Joseph | 1925 |
| Tales from Silver Lands | |
| Hawes, Charles Boardman | 1924 |
| The Dark Frigate | |
| Lofting, Hugh | 1923 |
| Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | |
| Van Loon, Hendrik Willem | 1922 |
| The Story of Mankind | |