| Sheinkin, Steve | 2011 |
| The Notorious Benedict Arnold | |
| Mavor, Salley | 2011 |
| Pocketful of Posies | |
| Wynne-Jones, Tim | 2011 |
| Blink & Caution | |
| Stead, Rebecca | 2010 |
| When You Reach Me | |
| Partridge, Elizabeth | 2010 |
| Marching for Freedom | |
| Croza, Laurel | 2010 |
| I Know Here | |
| Pratchett, Terry | 2009 |
| Nation | |
| Fleming, Candace | 2009 |
| The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary | |
| Mahy, Margaret | 2009 |
| Bubble Trouble | |
| Sis, Peter | 2008 |
| The Wall | |
| Alexie, Sherman | 2008 |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | |
| Bean, Jonathan | 2008 |
| At Night | |
| Tan, Shaun | 2008 |
| The Arrival | |
| Seeger, Laura Vaccaro | 2007 |
| Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories | |
| Anderson, M.T. | 2007 |
| The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party | |
| Debon, Nicolas | 2007 |
| The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr | |
| Ehlert, Lois | 2006 |
| Leaf Man | |
| DiCamillo, Kate | 2006 |
| The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | |
| McNulty, Faith | 2006 |
| If You Decide to Go to the Moon | |
| Grey, Mini | 2005 |
| Traction Man Is Here! | |
| Shusterman, Neal | 2005 |
| The Schwa Was Here | |
| Hoose, Phillip | 2005 |
| The Race to Save the Lord God Bird | |
| Almond, David | 2004 |
| The Fire-Eaters | |
| Murphy, Jim | 2004 |
| An American Plague | |
| Gerstein, Mordicai | 2004 |
| The Man Who Walked Between the Towers | |
| Root, Phyllis | 2003 |
| Big Momma Makes the World | |
| Kalman, Maira | 2003 |
| Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey | |
| Fine, Anne | 2003 |
| Jamie and Angus Stories | |
| Salisbury, Graham | 2002 |
| Lord of the Deep | |
| Partridge, Elizabeth | 2002 |
| This Land Was Made For You and Me | |
| Graham, Bob | 2002 |
| Let's Get a Pup! | |
| Dash, Joan | 2001 |
| The Longitude Prize | |
| Nelson, Marilyn | 2001 |
| Carver: A Life in Poems | |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | 2001 |
| Cold Feet | |
| Billingsley, Franny | 2000 |
| The Folk Keeper | |
| Johnson, D. B. | 2000 |
| Henry Hikes to Fitchburg | |
| Aronson, Marc | 2000 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh & the Quest for El Dorado | |
| Sachar, Louis | 1999 |
| Holes | |
| Jenkins, Steve | 1999 |
| The Top of the World | |
| Sis, Peter | 1999 |
| Tibet: Through the Red Box | |
| Cowley, Joy | 1999 |
| Red Eyed Tree Frog | |
| Jimenez, Francisco | 1998 |
| The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child | |
| Banks, Kate | 1998 |
| And If the Moon Could Talk | |
| Tillage, Leon | 1998 |
| Leon's Story | |
| Yumoto, Kazumi | 1997 |
| The Friends | |
| Wick, Walter | 1997 |
| A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder | |
| Pinkney, Brian | 1997 |
| The Adventures of Sparrowboy | |
| Avi | 1996 |
| Poppy | |
| Warren, Andrea | 1996 |
| Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story | |
| Hest, Amy | 1996 |
| In the Rain with Baby Duck | |
| Wynne Jones, Tim | 1995 |
| Some of the Kinder Planets | |
| Bober, Natalie S. | 1995 |
| Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution | |
| Lester, Julius | 1995 |
| John Henry | |
| Williams, Vera | 1994 |
| Scooter | |
| Freedman, Russell | 1994 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | |
| Say, Allen | 1994 |
| Grandfather's Journey | |
| Alexander, Lloyd | 1993 |
| The Fortune Tellers | |
| Berry, James | 1993 |
| Ajeemah and His Son | |
| McKissack, Patricia | 1993 |
| Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman? | |
| Rylant, Cynthia | 1992 |
| Missing May | |
| Cummings, Pat | 1992 |
| Talking With Artists | |
| Young, Ed | 1992 |
| Seven Blind Mice | |
| Avi | 1991 |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | |
| Rylant, Cynthia | 1991 |
| Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds | |
| Paterson, Katherine | 1991 |
| The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks | |
| Spinelli, Jerry | 1990 |
| Maniac Magee | |
| Fritz, Jean | 1990 |
| The Great Little Madison | |
| Young, Ed | 1990 |
| Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Story from China | |
| Burkert, Nancy Ekholm | 1990 |
| Valentine and Orson | |
| Fox, Paula | 1989 |
| The Village by the Sea | |
| Wells, Rosemary | 1989 |
| Shy Charles | |
| Macaulay, David | 1989 |
| The Way Things Work | |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | 1988 |
| The Friendship | |
| Hamilton, Virginia | 1988 |
| Anthony, Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave | |
| Say, Allen | 1988 |
| The Boy of the Three-Year Nap | |
| Lowry, Lois | 1987 |
| Rabble Starkey | |
| Sewall, Marcia | 1987 |
| The Pilgrims of Plimoth | |
| Steptoe, John | 1987 |
| Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters | |
| Oneal, Zibby | 1986 |
| In Summer Light | |
| Thomson, Peggy | 1986 |
| Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur | |
| Bang, Molly | 1986 |
| The Paper Crane | |
| Brooks, Bruce | 1985 |
| The Moves Make the Man | |
| Blumberg, Rhoda | 1985 |
| Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun | |
| Hurd, Thacher | 1985 |
| Mama Don't Allow | |
| Wrightson, Patricia | 1984 |
| A Little Fear | |
| Fritz, Jean | 1984 |
| The Double Life of Pocahontas | |
| Hutton, Warwick | 1984 |
| Jonah and the Great Fish | |
| Hamilton, Virginia | 1983 |
| Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | |
| Davis, Daniel | 1983 |
| Behind Barbed Wire | |
| Williams, Vera B | 1983 |
| A Chair for My Mother | |
| Park, Ruth | 1982 |
| Playing Beatie Bow | |
| Siegal, Aranka | 1982 |
| Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 | |
| Willard, Nancy | 1982 |
| A Visit to William Blake's Inn | |
| Hall, Lynn | 1981 |
| The Leaving | |
| Lasky, Kathryn | 1981 |
| The Weaver's Gift | |
| Sendak, Maurice | 1981 |
| Outside Over There | |
| Davies, Andrew | 1980 |
| Conrad's War | |
| Oakley, Graham | 1980 |
| Graham Oakley's Magical Changes | |
| Salvadori, Mario | 1980 |
| Building: The Fight Against Gravity | |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | 1980 |
| The Garden of Abdul Gasazi | |
| Fleischman, Sid | 1979 |
| Humbug Mountain | |
| Kherdian, David | 1979 |
| The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl | |
| Briggs, Raymond | 1979 |
| The Snowman | |
| Raskin, Ellen | 1978 |
| The Westing Game | |
| Koehn, Ilse | 1978 |
| Mischling, Second Degree | |
| Anno, Mitsumasa | 1978 |
| Anno's Journey | |
| Yep, Laurence | 1977 |
| Child of the Owl | |
| Dickinson, Peter | 1977 |
| Chance, Luck and Destiny | |
| Tripp, Wallace | 1977 |
| Granfa' Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason | |
| Walsh, Jill Paton | 1976 |
| Unleaving | |
| Tamarin, Alfred and Shirley Glubok | 1976 |
| Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade | |
| Charlip, Remy and Jerry Joyner | 1976 |
| Thirteen | |
| Degens, T. | 1975 |
| Transport 7-41-R | |
| Anno, Mitsumasa | 1975 |
| Anno's Alphabet | |
| Hamilton, Virginia | 1974 |
| M.C. Higgins, The Great | |
| Feelings, Muriel | 1974 |
| Jambo Means Hello | |
| Cooper, Susan | 1973 |
| The Dark is Rising | |
| Pyle, Howard | 1973 |
| King Stork | |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | 1972 |
| Tristan and Iseult | |
| Burningham, John | 1972 |
| Mr. Gumpy's Outing | |
| Mizumura, Kazue | 1971 |
| If I Built a Village. . . | |
| Cameron, Eleanor | 1971 |
| A Room Made of Windows | |
| Townsend, John Rowe | 1970 |
| The Intruder | |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | 1970 |
| Hi, Cat! | |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | 1969 |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | |
| Goodall, John | 1969 |
| The Adventures of Paddy Pork | |
| Lawson, John | 1968 |
| The Spring Rider | |
| Mosel, Arlene | 1968 |
| Tikki Tikki Tembo | |
| Haugaard, Erik Christian | 1967 |
| The Little Fishes | |
| Spier, Peter | 1967 |
| London Bridge is Falling Down | |