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Year	Award	Title	Author
2007	WINNER	The Higher Power of Lucky	Patron, Susan
2007	Honor Book	Hattie Big Sky	Larson, Kirby
2007	Honor Book	Penny from Heaven	Holm, Jennifer L.
2007	Honor Book	Rules	Lord, Cynthia
2006	WINNER	Criss Cross	Perkins, Lynne Rae
2006	Honor Book	Hitler Youth	Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
2006	Honor Book	Princess Academy	Hale, Shannon
2006	Honor Book	Show Way	Woodson, Jacqueline
2006	Honor Book	Whittington	Armstrong, Alan W.
2005	Honor Book	Al Capone Does My Shirts	Choldenko, Gennifer
2005	WINNER	Kira-Kira	Kadohata, Cynthia
2005	Honor Book	Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy	Schmidt, Gary D.
2005	Honor Book	Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights	Freedman, Russell
2004	Honor Book	American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793	Murphy, Jim
2004	Honor Book	Olive's Ocean	Henkes, Kevin
2004	WINNER	Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread	DiCamillo, Kate
2003	Honor Book	A Corner of the Universe	Martin, Ann A.
2003	WINNER	Crispin: The Cross of Lead	Avi
2003	Honor Book	Hoot	Hiaasen, Carl
2003	Honor Book	House of the Scorpion, The	Farmer, Nancy
2003	Honor Book	Picture of Hollis Woods	Giff, Patricia Reilly
2003	Honor Book	Surviving the Applewhites	Tolan, Stephanie S.
2002	Honor Book	Carver: A Life in Poems	Nelson, Marilyn
2002	Honor Book	Everything on a Waffle	Horvath, Polly
2002	WINNER	A Single Shard	Park, Linda Sue
2001	Honor Book	Because of Winn-Dixie	Dicamillo, Kate
2001	WINNER	A Year Down Yonder	Peck, Richard
2001	Honor Book	Hope Was Here	Bauer, Joan
2001	Honor Book	Joey Pigza Loses Control	Gantos, Jack
2001	Honor Book	Wanderer, The	Creech, Sharon
2000	Honor Book	26 Fairmount Avenue	dePaola, Tomie
2000	WINNER	Bud, Not Buddy	Curtis, Christopher Paul
2000	Honor Book	Getting Near to Baby	Couloumbis, Audrey
2000	Honor Book	Our Only May Amelia	Holm, Jennifer L.
1999	Honor Book	A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories	Peck, Richard
1999	WINNER	Holes	Sachar, Louis
1998	Honor Book	Ella Enchanted	Levine, Gail Carson
1998	Honor Book	Lily's Crossing	Giff, Patricia Reilly
1998	WINNER	Out of the Dust	Hesse, Karen
1998	Honor Book	Wringer	Spinelli, Jerry
1997	Honor Book	A Girl Named Disaster	Farmer, Nancy
1997	Honor Book	Belle Prater's Boy	White, Ruth
1997	Honor Book	Moorchild, The	McGraw, Eloise
1997	Honor Book	Thief, The	Turner, Megan Whalen
1997	WINNER	View from Saturday, The	Konigsburg, E. L.
1996	Honor Book	Great Fire, The	Murphy, Jim
1996	WINNER	Midwife's Apprentice, The	Cushman, Karen
1996	Honor Book	What Jamie Saw	Coman, Carolyn
1995	Honor Book	Catherine, Called Birdy	Cushman, Karen
1995	Honor Book	Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, The	Farmer, Nancy
1995	WINNER	Walk Two Moons (see review)	Creech, Sharon
1994	Honor Book	Crazy Lady!	Conly, Jane Leslie
1994	Honor Book	Dragon's Gate	Yep, Laurence
1994	Honor Book	Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery	Freedman, Russell
1994	WINNER	Giver, The	Lowry, Lois
1993	WINNER	Missing May	Rylant, Cynthia
1993	Honor Book	Somewhere in the Darkness	Myers, Walter Dean
1993	Honor Book	Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, The	McKissack, Patricia C.
1993	Honor Book	What Hearts	Brooks, Bruce
1992	Honor Book	Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel	Avi
1992	WINNER	Shiloh	Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
1992	Honor Book	Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, The	Freedman, Russell
1991	WINNER	Maniac Magee	Spinelli, Jerry
1991	Honor Book	True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The	Avi
1990	Honor Book	Afternoon of the Elves	Lisle, Janet Taylor
1990	WINNER	Number the Stars	Lowry, Lois
1990	Honor Book	Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind	Staples, Suzanne Fisher
1990	Honor Book	Winter Room, The	Paulsen, Gary
1989	Honor Book	In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World	Hamilton, Virginia
1989	WINNER	Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices	Fleischman, Paul
1989	Honor Book	Scorpions	Myers, Walter Dean
1988	Honor Book	After the Rain	Mazer, Norma Fox
1988	Honor Book	Hatchet	Paulsen, Gary
1988	WINNER	Lincoln: A Photobiography	Freedman, Russell
1987	Honor Book	A Fine White Dust	Rylant, Cynthia
1987	Honor Book	On My Honor	Bauer, Marion Dane
1987	WINNER	Whipping Boy, The	Fleischman, Sid
1987	Honor Book	Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens	Lauber, Patricia
1986	Honor Book	Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun	Blumberg, Rhoda
1986	Honor Book	Dogsong	Paulsen, Gary
1986	WINNER	Sarah, Plain and Tall	MacLachlan, Patricia
1985	Honor Book	Like Jake and Me	Jukes, Mavis
1985	Honor Book	One-Eyed Cat	Fox, Paula
1985	WINNER	Hero and the Crown, The	McKinley, Robin
1985	Honor Book	Moves Make the Man, The	Brooks, Bruce
1984	WINNER	Dear Mr. Henshaw	Cleary, Beverly
1984	Honor Book	Solitary Blue	Voigt, Cynthia
1984	Honor Book	Sugaring Time	Lasky, Kathryn
1984	Honor Book	Sign of the Beaver, The	Speare, Elizabeth George
1984	Honor Book	Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, The	Brittain, Bill
1983	WINNER	Dicey's Song	Voigt, Cynthia
1983	Honor Book	Doctor de Soto	Steig, William
1983	Honor Book	Graven Images: 3 Stories	Fleischman, Paul
1983	Honor Book	Homesick My Own Story	Fritz, Jean
1983	Honor Book	Sweet Whispers Brother Rush	Hamilton, Virginia
1983	Honor Book	Blue Sword, The	McKinley, Robin
1982	WINNER	A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers	Willard, Nancy
1982	Honor Book	Ramona Quimby, Age 8	Cleary, Beverly
1982	Honor Book	Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944	Siegal, Aranka
1981	Honor Book	A Ring of Endless Light	L'Engle, Madeleine
1981	Winner	Jacob Have I Loved	Paterson, Katherine
1981	Honor Book	Fledgling, The	Langton, Jane
1980	WINNER	A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32: A Novel	Blos, Joan W.
1980	Honor Book	Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl, The	Kherdian, David
1979	Honor Book	Great Gilly Hopkins, The	Paterson, Katherine
1979	WINNER	Westing Game, The	Raskin, Ellen
1978	Honor Book	Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey	Highwater, Jamake
1978	WINNER	Bridge to Terabithia	Paterson, Katherine
1978	Honor Book	Ramona and Her Father	Cleary, Beverly
1977	Honor Book	A String in the Harp	Bond, Nancy
1977	Honor Book	Abel's Island	Steig, William
1977	WINNER	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Taylor, Mildred D.
1976	Honor Book	Dragonwings	Yep, Laurence
1976	WINNER	Grey King, The	Cooper, Susan
1976	Honor Book	Hundred Penny Box, The	Mathis, Sharon Bell
1975	Honor Book	Figgs & Phantoms	Raskin, Ellen
1975	WINNER	M.C. Higgins, the Great	Hamilton, Virginia
1975	Honor Book	My Brother Sam is Dead	Collier, James Lincoln
1975	Honor Book	Philip Hall Likes Me: I Reckon Maybe	Greene, Bette
1975	Honor Book	Perilous Gard, The	Pope, Elizabeth Marie
1974	Honor Book	Dark is Rising	Cooper, Susan
1974	WINNER	Slave Dancer, The	Fox, Paula
1973	Honor Book	Frog and Toad Together	Lobel, Arnold
1973	WINNER	Julie of the Wolves	George, Jean Craighead
1973	Honor Book	Upstairs Room, The	Reiss, Johanna
1973	Honor Book	Witches of Worm, The	Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
1972	Honor Book	Annie and the Old One	Miles, Miska
1972	Honor Book	Incident at Hawk's Hill	Eckert, Allan W.
1972	WINNER	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH	O'Brien, Robert
1972	Honor Book	Headless Cupid, The	Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
1972	Honor Book	Planet of Junior Brown, The	Hamilton, Virginia
1972	Honor Book	Tombs of Atuan	Le Guin, Ursula K.
1971	Honor Book	Enchantress from the Stars	Engdahl, Sylvia
1971	Honor Book	Knee Knock Rise	Babbitt, Natalie
1971	Honor Book	Sing Down the Moon	O'Dell, Scott
1971	WINNER	Summer of the Swans, The	Byars, Betsy Cromer
1970	Honor Book	Journey Outside	Steele, Mary Q.
1970	Honor Book	Our Eddie	Ish-Kishor, Sulamith
1970	WINNER	Sounder,	Armstrong, William H.
1969	WINNER	High King, The	Alexander, Lloyd
1969	Honor Book	To Be a Slave	Lester, Julius
1969	Honor Book	When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw: And Other Stories	Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1968	Honor Book	Egypt Game	Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
1968	WINNER	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Koningsburg, Elaine
1968	Honor Book	Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth	Konigsburg, E. L.
1968	Honor Book	Black Pearl, The	O'Dell, Scott
1968	Honor Book	Fearsome Inn	Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1967	Honor Book	Jazz Man, The	Weik, Mary Hays
1967	Honor Book	King's Fifth, The	O'Dell, Scott
1967	Honor Book	Zlateh the Goat: And Other Stories	Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1966	WINNER	I, Juan de Pareja	Trevino, Elizabeth Borton De
1966	Honor Book	Animal Family, The	Jarrell, Randall
1966	Honor Book	Black Cauldron, The	Alexander, Lloyd
1966	Honor Book	Noonday Friends, The	Stolz, Mary
1965	Honor Book	Across Five April's	Hunt, Irene
1965	WINNER	Shadow of a Bull	Wojciechowska, Maia
1964	WINNER	It's Like This Cat	Neville, Emily Cheney
1964	Honor Book	Rascal	North, Sterling
1964	Honor Book	Loner, The	Wier, Ester
1963	WINNER	Wrinkle in Time	L'Engle, Madeleine
1962	Honor Book	Belling the Tiger	Stolz, Mary
1962	Honor Book	Frontier Living	Tunis, Edwin
1962	WINNER	Bronze Bow, The	Speare, Elizabeth George
1962	Honor Book	Golden Goblet, The	McGraw, Eloise
1961	WINNER	Island of the Blue Dolphins	O'Dell, Scott
1961	Honor Book	Cricket in Times Square, The	Selden, George
1960	Honor Book	My Side of the Mountain	George, Jean Craighead
1960	WINNER	Onion John	Krumgold, Joseph
1960	Honor Book	Gammage Cup, The	Kendall, Carol
1959	Honor Book	Along Came a Dog	De Jong, Meindert
1959	Honor Book	Family Under the Bridge, The	Carlson, Natalie Savage
1959	Honor Book	Perilous Road, The	Steele, William O.
1959	WINNER	Witch of Blackbird Pond, The	Speare, Elizabeth George
1958	Honor Book	Gone-Away Lake	Enright, Elizabeth
1958	WINNER	Rifles for Watie	Keith, Harold
1958	Honor Book	Great Wheel, The	Lawson, Robert
1958	Honor Book	Horsecatcher, The	Sandoz, Mari
1957	WINNER	Miracles on Maple Hill	Sorensen, Virginia
1957	Honor Book	Old Yeller	Gipson, Fred
1957	Honor Book	Corn Grows Ripe, The	Rhoads, Dorothy
1957	Honor Book	House of Sixty Fathers, The	De Jong, Meindert
1956	WINNER	Carry on Mister Bowditch	Latham, Jean Lee
1956	Honor Book	Secret River, The	Weisgard, Leonard
1955	Honor Book	Banner in the Sky	Ulman, James Ramsey
1955	Honor Book	Courage of Sarah Noble, The	Dalgliesh, Alice
1955	WINNER	Wheel on the School, The	De Jong, Meindert
1954	Honor Book	All Alone	Bishop, Claire Hucket
1954	WINNER	And Now Miguel	Krumgold, Joseph
1954	Honor Book	Hurry Home, Candy	De Jong, Meindert
1954	Honor Book	Shadrach	De Jong, Meindert
1953	Honor Book	Birthdays of Freedom: From Early Man to July 4, 1776	Foster, Genevieve
1953	Honor Book	Charlotte's Web	White, E. B.
1953	Honor Book	Moccasin Trail	McGraw, Eloise
1953	Honor Book	Red Sails to Capri	Weil, Ann
1953	WINNER	Secret of the Andes	Clark, Ann Nolan
1953	Honor Book	Bears on Hemlock Mountain, The	Dalgliesh, Alice
1952	WINNER	Ginger Pye	Estes, Eleanor
1952	Honor Book	Minn of the Mississippi	Holling, Holling Clancy
1952	Honor Book	Defender, The	Kalashnikoff, Nicholas
1952	Honor Book	Light at Tern Rock, The	Saucer, Julia L.
1951	WINNER	Amos Fortune, Free Man	Yates, Elizabeth
1950	Honor Book	Blue Cat of Castle Town	Coblentz, Catherine C.
1950	Honor Book	Kildee House: 1950 Newbery Honor Book	Montgomery, Rutherford George
1950	WINNER	Door in the Wall, The	De Angeli, Marguerite
1950	Honor Book	Tree of Freedom	Caudill, Rebecca
1949	Honor Book	Daughter of the Mountains	Rankin, Louise
1949	WINNER	King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian	Henry, Marguerite
1949	Honor Book	My Father's Dragon	Gannett, Ruth Stiles
1949	Honor Book	Seabird	Holling, Holling Clancy
1948	Honor Book	Li Lun, Lad of Courage	Treffinger, Carolyn
1948	Honor Book	Misty of Chincoteague	Henry, Marguerite
1948	Honor Book	Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories, The	Courlander, Harold
1948	WINNER	Twenty-One Balloons, The	Du Bois, William Paene
1947	WINNER	Miss Hickory,	Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
1947	Honor Book	Heavenly Tenants, The	Maxwell, William F.
1946	Honor Book	Justin Morgan Had a Horse	Henry, Marguerite
1946	WINNER	Strawberry Girl	Lenski, Lois
1945	Honor Book	Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams	Eaton, Jeanette
1945	WINNER	Rabbit Hill	Lawson, Robert
1945	Honor Book	Hundred Dresses, The	Estes, Eleanor
1945	Honor Book	Silver Pencil, The	Dalgliesh, Alice
1944	Honor Book	Fog Magic	Sauer, Julia L.
1944	WINNER	Johnny Tremain	Forbes, Esther
1944	Honor Book	Rufus M.	Estes, Eleanor
1944	Honor Book	These Happy Golden Years	Wilder, Laura Ingalls
1943	WINNER	Adam of the Road	Gray, Elizabeth Janet
1943	Honor Book	Middle Moffat, The	Estes, Eleanor
1942	Honor Book	George Washington's World	Foster, Genevieve
1942	Honor Book	Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison	Lenski, Lois
1942	Honor Book	Little Town on the Prairie	Wilder, Laura Ingalls
1942	WINNER	Matchlock Gun, The	Edmonds, Walter D.
1941	Honor Book	Blue Willow	Gates, Doris
1941	WINNER	Call It Courage	Sperry, Armstrong
1941	Honor Book	Long Winter, The	Wilder, Laura Ingalls
1940	Honor Book	By the Shores of Silver Lake	Wilder, Laura Ingalls
1940	WINNER	Daniel Boone	Daugherty, James
1940	Honor Book	Singing Tree, The	Seredy, Kate
1939	Honor Book	Leader by Destiny	Eaton, Jeanette
1939	Honor Book	Mr. Popper's Penguins	Atwater, Richard
1939	WINNER	Thimble Summer	Enright, Elizabeth
1938	Honor Book	On the Banks of Plum Creek	Wilder, Laura Ingalls
1938	WINNER	White Stag, The	Seredy, Kate
1937	Honor Book	Aududon	Rourke, Constance
1937	WINNER	Roller Skates	Sawyer, Ruth
1936	Honor Book	All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud	Sperry, Armstrong
1936	WINNER	Caddie Woodlawn	Brink, Carol Ryrie
1936	Honor Book	Good Master, The	Seredy, Kate
1935	Honor Book	A Day on Skates	Van Stockum, Holda
1935	Honor Book	Davy Crockett	Rourke, Constance
1934	WINNER	Invisible Louisa	Meigs, Cornelia
1934	Honor Book	ABC Bunny, The	Gag, Wanda
1933	Honor Book	Swift Rivers	Meigs, Cornelia
1933	Honor Book	Railroad to Freedom, The	Daugherty, James
1933	WINNER	Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze	Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman
1932	Honor Book	Calico Bush	Field, Rachel
1932	Honor Book	Jane's Island	Allee, Marjorie H.
1932	WINNER	Waterless Mountain	Armer, Laura Adams
1931	WINNER	Cat Who Went to Heaven, The	Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane
1930	WINNER	Rachel Field's Hitty: Her First Hundred Years	Wells, Rosemary
1930	Honor Book	Tangle-Coated Horse, The	Young, Ella
1929	Honor Book	Millions of Cats	Gag, Wanda
1929	WINNER	Trumpeter of Krakow, The	Kelly, Eric P.
1928	WINNER	Gay Neck	Mukerji, Dhan Gopal
1928	Honor Book	Wonder Smith and His Son: A Tale from the Golden Childhood of the World, The	Young, Ella
1927	WINNER	Smoky, the Cow Horse	James, Will
1926	WINNER	Shen of the Sea	Chrisman, Arthur Bowie
1925	WINNER	Tales from Silver Lands	Finger, Charles J.
1924	WINNER	Dark Frigate, The	Hawes, Charles Boardman
1923	WINNER	Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, The	Lofting, Hugh
1922	Honor Book	Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, The	Colum, Padraic
1922	WINNER	Story of Mankind, The	van Loon, Hendrik Willem