| Sepetys, Ruta | 2012 |
| Between Shades of Gray | |
| Fleming, Candace | 2012 |
| Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart | |
| Sweet, Melissa | 2012 |
| Balloons Over Broadway | |
| Messner, Kate | 2012 |
| Over and Under the Snow | |
| Holm, Jennifer | 2011 |
| Turtle in Paradise | |
| Stone, Tanya Lee | 2011 |
| The Good, the Bad and the Barbie | |
| Khan, Rukhsana | 2011 |
| Big Red Lollipop | |
| Mavor, Salley | 2011 |
| Pocketful of Posies | |
| Durango, Julia | 2010 |
| Sea of the Dead | |
| Bryan, Ashley | 2010 |
| Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's Song | |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | 2010 |
| The Longest Night | |
| Mora, Pat | 2010 |
| Gracias = Thanks | |
| Watkins, Steve | 2009 |
| Down Sand Mountain | |
| Becker, Bonny | 2009 |
| A Visitor for Bear | |
| Yum, Hyewon | 2009 |
| Last Night | |
| Turner, Pamela | 2009 |
| A Life in the Wild | |
| Applegate, Katherine | 2008 |
| Home of the Brave | |
| Bausum, Ann | 2008 |
| Muckrakers | |
| Pennypacker, Sara | 2008 |
| Pierre in Love | |
| Morales, Yuyi | 2008 |
| Little Night | |
| Abbott, Tony | 2007 |
| Firegirl | |
| Freedman, Russell | 2007 |
| The Adventures of Marco Polo | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | 2007 |
| Jazz | |
| Day, Larry | 2007 |
| Not Afraid of Dogs | |
| Pearson, Mary | 2006 |
| A Room on Lorelei Street | |
| Freedman, Russell | 2006 |
| Children of the Great Depression | |
| Sweet, Melissa | 2006 |
| Baby Bear's Chairs | |
| Mora, Pat | 2006 |
| Do na Flor | |
| Hopkinson, Deborah | 2005 |
| Apples to Oregon | |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | 2005 |
| Bucking the Sarge | |
| Cassels, Jean | 2005 |
| The Mysterious Collection of Dr. David Harleyson | |
| Cooper, Michael | 2005 |
| Dust to Eat | |
| Spinelli, Jerry | 2004 |
| Milkweed | |
| Byrd, Robert | 2004 |
| Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer | |
| Timberlake, Amy | 2004 |
| The Dirty Cowboy | |
| Long, Loren | 2004 |
| I Dream of Trains | |
| Partridge, Elizabeth | 2003 |
| This Land Was Made For You and Me | |
| Frazee, Marla | 2003 |
| Mrs. Biddlebox | |
| Placide, Jaira | 2003 |
| Fresh Girl | |
| Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | 2002 |
| Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine | |
| Wolff, Virginia Euwer | 2002 |
| True Believer | |
| Krommes, Beth | 2002 |
| The Lamp, the Ice, and a Boat Called Fish | |
| Levine, Ellen | 2001 |
| Darkness Over Denmark | |
| Kurtz, Jane | 2001 |
| River Friendly, River Wild | |
| Shannon, David | 2001 |
| The Rain Came Down | |
| Karr, Kathleen | 2001 |
| The Boxer | |
| Hopkinson, Deborah | 2000 |
| A Band of Angels | |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | 2000 |
| Speak | |
| Walrod, Amy | 2000 |
| The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) | |
| Dyson, Marianne | 2000 |
| Space Station Science: Life in Free Fall | |
| Shulevitz, Uri | 1999 |
| Snow | |
| Bauer, Joan | 1999 |
| Rules of the Road | |
| Freedman, Russell | 1999 |
| Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life | |
| George, Kristine O'Connell | 1999 |
| Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems | |
| Napoli, Donna Jo | 1998 |
| Stones in Water | |
| Schulman, Arlene | 1998 |
| Carmine's Story: A Book About a Boy Living with AIDS | |
| Davol, Marguerite W. | 1998 |
| The Paper Dragon | |
| McGraw, Eloise | 1997 |
| The Moorchild | |
| Stanley, Diane | 1997 |
| Saving Sweetness | |
| Berry, Holly | 1997 |
| Market Day | |
| Kehret, Peg | 1997 |
| Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio | |
| Bober, Natalie S. | 1996 |
| Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution | |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | 1996 |
| The Watsons Go To Birmingham | |
| Nolan, Dennis | 1996 |
| Fairy Wings | |
| Baker, Keith | 1995 |
| Big Fat Hen | |
| Cushman, Karen | 1995 |
| Catherine, Called Birdy | |
| Freedman, Russell | 1995 |
| Kids at Work: Lewis Hine & the Crusade Against Child Labor | |
| Freedman, Russell | 1994 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | |
| Hawkes, Kevin | 1994 |
| By the Light of the Halloween Moon | |
| Wolff, Virginia | 1994 |
| Make Lemonade | |
| Polacco, Patricia | 1993 |
| Chicken Sunday | |
| Murphy, Jim | 1993 |
| The Long Road to Gettysburg | |
| Lyons, Mary E. | 1993 |
| Letters From a Slave Girl | |
| Freedman, Russell | 1992 |
| The Wright Brothers | |
| Thesman, Jean | 1992 |
| The Rain Catchers | |
| Lavallee, Barbara | 1992 |
| Mama, Do You Love Me | |
| Avi | 1991 |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | |
| Pinkney, Jerry | 1991 |
| Home Place | |
| Murphy, Jim | 1991 |
| The Boys War | |
| Gregory, Kristiana | 1990 |
| Jenny of the Tetons | |
| St. George, Judith | 1990 |
| Panama Canal: Gateway to the World | |
| Watson, Richard Jesse | 1990 |
| Tom Thumb | |
| Lyon, George Ella | 1989 |
| Borrowed Children | |
| Giblin, James Cross | 1989 |
| Let There be Light | |
| Jeffers, Susan | 1989 |
| Forest of Dreams | |
| Lowry, Lois | 1988 |
| Rabble Starkey | |
| Blumberg, Rhoda | 1988 |
| Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark | |
| Lobel, Arnold | 1988 |
| The Devil & Mother Crump | |
| Rostkowski, Margaret | 1987 |
| After the Dancing Days | |
| Meltzer, Milton | 1987 |
| Poverty in America | |
| MacDonald, Suse | 1987 |
| Alphabatics | |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | 1986 |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | |
| Blumberg, Rhoda | 1986 |
| Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun | |
| Hurmence, Belinda | 1985 |
| Tancy | |
| Giblin, James Cross | 1985 |
| Walls: Defenses Throughout History | |
| Skurzynski, Gloria | 1984 |
| The Tempering | |
| Sattler, Helen Roney | 1984 |
| The Illustrated Dinosaur Dictionary | |
| Hyman, Trina Schart | 1984 |
| Little Red Riding Hood | |
| Cleary, Beverly | 1983 |
| Ralph S. Mouse | |
| Giblin, James Cross | 1983 |
| Chimney Sweeps | |
| de Paola, Tomie | 1983 |
| Giorgio's Village | |
| Kerr, M.E. | 1982 |
| Little, Little | |
| Helfman, Elizabeth | 1982 |
| Blissymbolics | |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | 1981 |
| Arthur, for the Very First Time | |
| Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw | 1981 |
| The Lives of Spiders | |
| Adler, Carole | 1980 |
| The Magic of the Glits | |
| Madison, Arnold | 1980 |
| Runaway Teens | |
| Pevsner, Stella | 1979 |
| And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine | |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 1979 |
| How I Came to be a Writer | |
| McClung, Robert | 1978 |
| Peeper, First Voice of Spring | |
| Yolen, Jane | 1975 |
| The Girl Who Cried Flowers | |
| Greene, Bette | 1974 |
| Summer of My German Soldier | |