| Year |
Author |
Book |
Award |
| 1922 |
Hendrik Willem van Loon |
The Story of Mankind |
Winner |
| Charles Boardman Hawes |
The Great Quest |
Honor |
| Bernard Marshall |
Cedric the Forester |
Honor |
| William Bowen |
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure |
Honor |
| Padraic Colum |
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles |
Honor |
| Cornelia Meigs |
The Windy Hill |
Honor |
| 1923 |
Hugh Lofting |
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle |
Winner |
| 1924 |
Charles Boardman Hawes |
The Dark Frigate |
Winner |
| 1925 |
Charles Finger |
Tales from Silver Lands |
Winner |
| Annie Carroll Moore |
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story |
Honor |
Anne Parrish & Dillwyn Parrish |
The Dream Coach |
Honor |
| 1926 |
Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
Shen of the Sea |
Winner |
| Padraic Colum |
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery |
Honor |
| 1927 |
Will James |
Smoky the Cow Horse |
Winner |
| 1928 |
Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon |
Winner |
| Ella Young |
The Wonder Smith and His Son |
Honor |
| Caroline Snedeker |
Downright Dencey |
Honor |
| 1929 |
Eric P. Kelly |
The Trumpeter of Krakow |
Winner |
| John Bennett |
The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with Seventeen Other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes |
Honor |
| Wanda Gág |
Millions of Cats |
Honor |
| Grace Hallock |
The Boy Who Was |
Honor |
| Cornelia Meigs |
Clearing Weather |
Honor |
| Grace Moon |
Runaway Papoose |
Honor |
| Elinor Whitney Field |
Tod of the Fens |
Honor |
| 1930 |
Rachel Field |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years |
Winner |
| Jeanette Eaton |
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland |
Honor |
| Elizabeth Miller |
Pran of Albania |
Honor |
| Marian Hurd McNeely |
The Jumping-Off Place |
Honor |
| Ella Young |
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales |
Honor |
| Julia Davis Adams |
Vaino, A Boy of New Finland |
Honor |
| Hildegarde Swift |
Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer |
Honor |
| 1931 |
Elizabeth Coatsworth |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven |
Winner |
| Anne Parrish |
Floating Island |
Honor |
| Alida Malkus |
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess |
Honor |
| Ralph Hubbard |
Queer Person |
Honor |
| Julia Davis Adams |
Mountains are Free |
Honor |
| Agnes Hewes |
Spice and the Devil's Cave |
Honor |
| Elizabeth Janet Gray |
Meggy MacIntosh |
Honor |
| Herbert Best |
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes |
Honor |
| Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen |
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer |
Honor |
| 1932 |
Laura Adams Armer |
Waterless Mountain |
Winner |
| Dorothy P. Lathrop |
The Fairy Circus |
Honor |
| Rachel Field |
Calico Bush |
Honor |
| Eunice Tietjens |
Boy of the South Seas |
Honor |
| Eloise Lownsbery |
Out of the Flame |
Honor |
| Marjorie Hill Allee |
Jane's Island |
Honor |
| Mary Gould Davis |
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy |
Honor |
| 1933 |
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis |
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze |
Winner |
| Cornelia Meigs |
Swift Rivers |
Honor |
| Hildegarde Swift |
The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War |
Honor |
| Nora Burglon |
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia |
Honor |
| 1934 |
Cornelia Meigs |
Invincible Louisa |
Winner |
| Caroline Snedeker |
The Forgotten Daughter |
Honor |
| Elsie Singmaster |
Swords of Steel |
Honor |
| Wanda Gág |
ABC Bunny |
Honor |
| Erick Berry |
Winged Girl of Knossos |
Honor |
| Sarah Lindsay Schmidt |
New Land[4] |
Honor |
| Padraic Colum |
The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside |
Honor |
| Agnes Hewes |
Glory of the Seas |
Honor |
| Ann Kyle |
Apprentice of Florence |
Honor |
| 1935 |
Monica Shannon |
Dobry |
Winner |
| Elizabeth Seeger |
Pageant of Chinese History |
Honor |
| Constance Rourke |
Davy Crockett |
Honor |
| Hilda van Stockum |
A Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic |
Honor |
| 1936 |
Carol Ryrie Brink |
Caddie Woodlawn |
Winner |
| Phil Stong |
Honk, the Moose |
Honor |
| Kate Seredy |
The Good Master |
Honor |
| Elizabeth Janet Gray |
Young Walter Scott |
Honor |
| Armstrong Sperry |
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud |
Honor |
| 1937 |
Ruth Sawyer |
Roller Skates |
Winner |
| Lois Lenski |
Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book |
Honor |
| Idwal Jones |
Whistler's Van |
Honor |
| Ludwig Bemelmans |
The Golden Basket |
Honor |
| Margery Williams |
Winterbound |
Honor |
| Constance Rourke |
Audubon |
Honor |
| Agnes Hewes |
The Codfish Musket |
Honor |
| 1938 |
Kate Seredy |
The White Stag |
Winner |
| James Cloyd Bowman |
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time |
Honor |
| Mabel Robinson |
Bright Island |
Honor |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder |
On the Banks of Plum Creek |
Honor |
| 1939 |
Elizabeth Enright |
Thimble Summer |
Winner |
| Valenti Angelo |
Nino |
Honor |
| Richard & Florence Atwater |
Mr. Popper's Penguins |
Honor |
| Phyllis Crawford |
Hello the Boat! |
Honor |
| Jeanette Eaton |
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot |
Honor |
| Elizabeth Janet Gray |
Penn |
Honor |
| 1940 |
James Daugherty |
Daniel Boone |
Winner |
| Kate Seredy |
The Singing Tree |
Honor |
| Mabel Robinson |
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz |
Honor |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder |
By the Shores of Silver Lake |
Honor |
| Stephen W. Meader |
Boy with a Pack |
Honor |
| 1941 |
Armstrong Sperry |
Call It Courage |
Winner |
| Doris Gates |
Blue Willow |
Honor |
| Mary Jane Carr |
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver |
Honor |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder |
The Long Winter |
Honor |
| Anna Gertrude Hall |
Nansen |
Honor |
| 1942 |
Walter D. Edmonds |
The Matchlock Gun |
Winner |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Little Town on the Prairie |
Honor |
| Genevieve Foster |
George Washington's World |
Honor |
| Lois Lenski |
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison |
Honor |
| Eva Roe Gaggin |
Down Ryton Water |
Honor |
| 1943 |
Elizabeth Janet Gray |
Adam of the Road |
Winner |
| Eleanor Estes |
The Middle Moffat |
Honor |
| Mabel Leigh Hunt |
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? |
Honor |
| 1944 |
Esther Forbes |
Johnny Tremain |
Winner |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder |
These Happy Golden Years |
Honor |
| Julia Sauer |
Fog Magic |
Honor |
| Eleanor Estes |
Rufus M. |
Honor |
| Elizabeth Yates |
Mountain Born |
Honor |
| 1945 |
Robert Lawson |
Rabbit Hill |
Winner |
| Eleanor Estes |
The Hundred Dresses |
Honor |
| Alice Dalgliesh |
The Silver Pencil |
Honor |
| Genevieve Foster |
Abraham Lincoln's World |
Honor |
| Jeanette Eaton |
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams |
Honor |
| 1946 |
Lois Lenski |
Strawberry Girl |
Winner |
| Marguerite Henry |
Justin Morgan Had a Horse |
Honor |
| Florence Crannell Means |
The Moved-Outers |
Honor |
| Christine Weston |
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear |
Honor |
| Katherine Shippen |
New Found World |
Honor |
| 1947 |
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
Miss Hickory |
Winner |
| Nancy Barnes |
The Wonderful Year |
Honor |
| Mary & Conrad Buff |
Big Tree |
Honor |
| William Maxwell |
The Heavenly Tenants |
Honor |
| Cyrus Fisher |
The Avion My Uncle Flew |
Honor |
| Eleanore M. Jewett |
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston |
Honor |
| 1948 |
William Pène du Bois |
The Twenty-One Balloons |
Winner |
| Claire Huchet Bishop |
Pancakes-Paris |
Honor |
| Carolyn Treffinger |
Li Lun, Lad of Courage |
Honor |
| Catherine Besterman |
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot |
Honor |
| Harold Courlander |
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories |
Honor |
| Marguerite Henry |
Misty of Chincoteague |
Honor |
| 1949 |
Marguerite Henry |
King of the Wind |
Winner |
| Holling C. Holling |
Seabird |
Honor |
| Louise Rankin |
Daughter of the Mountains |
Honor |
| Ruth S. Gannett |
My Father's Dragon |
Honor |
| Arna Bontemps |
Story of the Negro |
Honor |
| 1950 |
Marguerite de Angeli |
The Door in the Wall |
Winner |
| Rebecca Caudill |
Tree of Freedom |
Honor |
| Catherine Coblentz |
The Blue Cat of Castle Town |
Honor |
| Rutherford George Montgomery |
Kildee House |
Honor |
| Genevieve Foster |
George Washington |
Honor |
| Walter & Marion Havighurst |
Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin |
Honor |
| 1951 |
Elizabeth Yates |
Amos Fortune, Free Man |
Winner |
| Mabel Leigh Hunt |
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed |
Honor |
| Jeanette Eaton |
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword |
Honor |
| Clara Ingram Judson |
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People |
Honor |
| Anne Parrish |
The Story of Appleby Capple |
Honor |
| 1952 |
Eleanor Estes |
Ginger Pye |
Winner |
| Elizabeth Baity |
Americans Before Columbus |
Honor |
| Holling C. Holling |
Minn of the Mississippi |
Honor |
| Nicholas Kalashnikoff |
The Defender |
Honor |
| Julia Sauer |
The Light at Tern Rock |
Honor |
| Mary & Conrad Buff |
The Apple and the Arrow |
Honor |
| 1953 |
Ann Nolan Clark |
Secret of the Andes |
Winner |
| E. B. White |
Charlotte's Web |
Honor |
| Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
Moccasin Trail |
Honor |
| Ann Weil |
Red Sails to Capri |
Honor |
| Alice Dalgliesh |
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain |
Honor |
| Genevieve Foster |
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 |
Honor |
| 1954 |
Joseph Krumgold |
...And Now Miguel |
Winner |
| Claire Huchet Bishop |
All Alone |
Honor |
| Meindert DeJong |
Shadrach |
Honor |
| Meindert DeJong |
Hurry Home, Candy |
Honor |
| Clara Ingram Judson |
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot |
Honor |
| Mary & Conrad Buff |
Magic Maize |
Honor |
| 1955 |
Meindert DeJong |
The Wheel on the School |
Winner |
| Alice Dalgliesh |
The Courage of Sarah Noble |
Honor |
| James Ullman |
Banner in the Sky |
Honor |
| 1956 |
Jean Lee Latham |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch |
Winner |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
The Secret River |
Honor |
| Jennie Lindquist |
The Golden Name Day |
Honor |
| Katherine Shippen |
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things |
Honor |
| 1957 |
Virginia Sorensen |
Miracles on Maple Hill |
Winner |
| Fred Gipson |
Old Yeller |
Honor |
| Meindert DeJong |
The House of Sixty Fathers |
Honor |
| Clara Ingram Judson |
Mr. Justice Holmes |
Honor |
| Dorothy Rhoads |
The Corn Grows Ripe |
Honor |
| Marguerite de Angeli |
Black Fox of Lorne |
Honor |
| 1958 |
Harold Keith |
Rifles for Watie |
Winner |
| Mari Sandoz |
The Horsecatcher |
Honor |
| Elizabeth Enright |
Gone-Away Lake |
Honor |
| Robert Lawson |
The Great Wheel |
Honor |
| Leo Gurko |
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle |
Honor |
| 1959 |
Elizabeth George Speare |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
Winner |
| Natalie Savage Carlson |
The Family Under the Bridge |
Honor |
| Meindert DeJong |
Along Came a Dog |
Honor |
| Francis Kalnay |
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa |
Honor |
| William O. Steele |
The Perilous Road |
Honor |
| 1960 |
Joseph Krumgold |
Onion John |
Winner |
| Jean Craighead George |
My Side of the Mountain |
Honor |
| Gerald W. Johnson |
America Is Born: A History for Peter |
Honor |
| Carol Kendall |
The Gammage Cup |
Honor |
| 1961 |
Scott O'Dell |
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
Winner |
| Gerald W. Johnson |
America Moves Forward: A History for Peter |
Honor |
| Jack Schaefer |
Old Ramon |
Honor |
| George Selden |
The Cricket in Times Square |
Honor |
| 1962 |
Elizabeth George Speare |
The Bronze Bow |
Winner |
| Edwin Tunis |
Frontier Living |
Honor |
| Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
The Golden Goblet |
Honor |
| Mary Stolz |
Belling The Tiger |
Honor |
| 1963 |
Madeleine L'Engle |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Winner |
| Sorche Nic Leodhas |
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland |
Honor |
| Olivia Coolidge |
Men of Athens |
Honor |
| 1964 |
Emily Cheney Neville |
It's Like This, Cat |
Winner |
| Sterling North |
Rascal |
Honor |
| Ester Wier |
The Loner |
Honor |
| 1965 |
Maia Wojciechowska |
Shadow of a Bull |
Winner |
| Irene Hunt |
Across Five Aprils |
Honor |
| 1966 |
Elizabeth Borton de Treviño |
I, Juan de Pareja |
Winner |
| Lloyd Alexander |
The Black Cauldron |
Honor |
| Randall Jarrell |
The Animal Family |
Honor |
| Mary Stolz |
The Noonday Friends |
Honor |
| 1967 |
Irene Hunt |
Up a Road Slowly |
Winner |
| Scott O'Dell |
The King's Fifth |
Honor |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories |
Honor |
| Mary Hays Weik |
The Jazz Man |
Honor |
| 1968 |
E. L. Konigsburg |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
Winner |
| E. L. Konigsburg |
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth |
Honor |
| Scott O'Dell |
The Black Pearl |
Honor |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
The Fearsome Inn |
Honor |
| Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
The Egypt Game |
Honor |
| 1969 |
Lloyd Alexander |
The High King |
Winner |
| Julius Lester |
To Be a Slave |
Honor |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories |
Honor |
| 1970 |
William H. Armstrong |
Sounder |
Winner |
| Sulamith Ish-kishor |
Our Eddie |
Honor |
| Janet Gaylord Moore |
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art |
Honor |
| Mary Q. Steele |
Journey Outside |
Honor |
| 1971 |
Betsy Byars |
Summer of the Swans |
Winner |
| Natalie Babbitt |
Knee-Knock Rise |
Honor |
| Sylvia Engdahl |
Enchantress from the Stars |
Honor |
| Scott O'Dell |
Sing Down the Moon |
Honor |
| 1972 |
Robert C. O'Brien |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
Winner |
| Allan W. Eckert |
Incident at Hawk's Hill |
Honor |
| Virginia Hamilton |
The Planet of Junior Brown |
Honor |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Tombs of Atuan |
Honor |
| Miska Miles |
Annie and the Old One |
Honor |
| Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
The Headless Cupid |
Honor |
| 1973 |
Jean Craighead George |
Julie of the Wolves |
Winner |
| Arnold Lobel |
Frog and Toad Together |
Honor |
| Johanna Reiss |
The Upstairs Room |
Honor |
| Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
The Witches of Worm |
Honor |
| 1974 |
Paula Fox |
The Slave Dancer |
Winner |
| Susan Cooper |
The Dark Is Rising |
Honor |
| 1975 |
Virginia Hamilton |
M. C. Higgins, the Great |
Winner |
| Ellen Raskin |
Figgs & Phantoms |
Honor |
| James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier |
My Brother Sam Is Dead |
Honor |
| Elizabeth Marie Pope |
The Perilous Gard |
Honor |
| Bette Greene |
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe |
Honor |
| 1976 |
Susan Cooper |
The Grey King |
Winner |
| Sharon Bell Mathis |
The Hundred Penny Box |
Honor |
| Laurence Yep |
Dragonwings |
Honor |
| 1977 |
Mildred Taylor |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Winner |
| William Steig |
Abel's Island |
Honor |
| Nancy Bond |
A String in the Harp |
Honor |
| 1978 |
Katherine Paterson |
Bridge to Terabithia |
Winner |
| Beverly Cleary |
Ramona and Her Father |
Honor |
| Jamake Highwater |
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey |
Honor |
| 1979 |
Ellen Raskin |
The Westing Game |
Winner |
| Katherine Paterson |
The Great Gilly Hopkins |
Honor |
| 1980 |
Joan Blos |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal |
Winner |
| David Kherdian |
The Road from Home |
Honor |
| 1981 |
Katherine Paterson |
Jacob Have I Loved |
Winner |
| Jane Langton |
The Fledgling |
Honor |
| Madeleine L'Engle |
A Ring of Endless Light |
Honor |
| 1982 |
Nancy Willard |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn |
Winner |
| Beverly Cleary |
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 |
Honor |
| Aranka Siegal |
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944 |
Honor |
| 1983 |
Cynthia Voigt |
Dicey's Song |
Winner |
| Robin McKinley |
The Blue Sword |
Honor |
| William Steig |
Doctor De Soto |
Honor |
| Paul Fleischman |
Graven Images |
Honor |
| Jean Fritz |
Homesick: My Own Story |
Honor |
| Virginia Hamilton |
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush |
Honor |
| 1984 |
Beverly Cleary |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
Winner |
| Elizabeth George Speare |
The Sign of the Beaver |
Honor |
| Cynthia Voigt |
A Solitary Blue |
Honor |
| Kathryn Lasky |
Sugaring Time |
Honor |
| Bill Brittain |
The Wish Giver |
Honor |
| 1985 |
Robin McKinley |
The Hero and the Crown |
Winner |
| Mavis Jukes |
Like Jake and Me |
Honor |
| Bruce Brooks |
The Moves Make the Man |
Honor |
| Paula Fox |
One-Eyed Cat |
Honor |
| 1986 |
Patricia MacLachlan |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
Winner |
| Rhoda Blumberg |
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun |
Honor |
| Gary Paulsen |
Dogsong |
Honor |
| 1987 |
Sid Fleischman |
The Whipping Boy |
Winner |
| Cynthia Rylant |
A Fine White Dust |
Honor |
| Marion Dane Bauer |
On My Honor |
Honor |
| Patricia Lauber |
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens |
Honor |
| 1988 |
Russell Freedman |
Lincoln: A Photobiography |
Winner |
| Norma Fox Mazer |
After the Rain |
Honor |
| Gary Paulsen |
Hatchet |
Honor |
| 1989 |
Paul Fleischman |
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices |
Winner |
| Virginia Hamilton |
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World |
Honor |
| Walter Dean Myers |
Scorpions |
Honor |
| 1990 |
Lois Lowry |
Number the Stars |
Winner |
| Janet Taylor Lisle |
Afternoon of the Elves |
Honor |
| Suzanne Fisher Staples |
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind |
Honor |
| Gary Paulsen |
The Winter Room |
Honor |
| 1991 |
Jerry Spinelli |
Maniac Magee |
Winner |
| Avi |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
Honor |
| 1992 |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Shiloh |
Winner |
| Avi |
Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel |
Honor |
| Russell Freedman |
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane |
Honor |
| 1993 |
Cynthia Rylant |
Missing May |
Winner |
| Bruce Brooks |
What Hearts |
Honor |
| Patricia McKissack |
The Dark-Thirty |
Honor |
| Walter Dean Myers |
Somewhere in the Darkness |
Honor |
| 1994 |
Lois Lowry |
The Giver |
Winner |
| Jane Leslie Conly |
Crazy Lady! |
Honor |
| Laurence Yep |
Dragon's Gate |
Honor |
| Russell Freedman |
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery |
Honor |
| 1995 |
Sharon Creech |
Walk Two Moons |
Winner |
| Karen Cushman |
Catherine, Called Birdy |
Honor |
| Nancy Farmer |
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm |
Honor |
| 1996 |
Karen Cushman |
The Midwife's Apprentice |
Winner |
| Carolyn Coman |
What Jamie Saw |
Honor |
| Christopher Paul Curtis |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 |
Honor |
| Carol Fenner |
Yolonda's Genius |
Honor |
| Jim Murphy |
The Great Fire |
Honor |
| 1997 |
E. L. Konigsburg |
The View from Saturday |
Winner |
| Nancy Farmer |
A Girl Named Disaster |
Honor |
| Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
The Moorchild |
Honor |
| Megan Whalen Turner |
The Thief |
Honor |
| Ruth White |
Belle Prater's Boy |
Honor |
| 1998 |
Karen Hesse |
Out of the Dust |
Winner |
| Gail Carson Levine |
Ella Enchanted |
Honor |
| Patricia Reilly Giff |
Lily's Crossing |
Honor |
| Jerry Spinelli |
Wringer |
Honor |
| 1999 |
Louis Sachar |
Holes |
Winner |
| Richard Peck |
A Long Way from Chicago |
Honor |
| 2000 |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
Bud, Not Buddy |
Winner |
| Audrey Couloumbis |
Getting Near to Baby |
Honor |
| Jennifer L. Holm |
Our Only May Amelia |
Honor |
| Tomie dePaola |
26 Fairmount Avenue |
Honor |
| 2001 |
Richard Peck |
A Year Down Yonder |
Winner |
| Joan Bauer |
Hope Was Here |
Honor |
| Kate DiCamillo |
Because of Winn-Dixie |
Honor |
| Jack Gantos |
Joey Pigza Loses Control |
Honor |
| Sharon Creech |
The Wanderer |
Honor |
| 2002 |
Linda Sue Park |
A Single Shard |
Winner |
| Polly Horvath |
Everything on a Waffle |
Honor |
| Marilyn Nelson |
Carver: A Life in Poems |
Honor |
| 2003 |
Avi |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
Winner |
| Nancy Farmer |
The House of the Scorpion |
Honor |
| Patricia Reilly Giff |
Pictures of Hollis Woods |
Honor |
| Carl Hiaasen |
Hoot |
Honor |
| Ann M. Martin |
A Corner of the Universe |
Honor |
| Stephanie S. Tolan |
Surviving the Applewhites |
Honor |
| 2004 |
Kate DiCamillo |
The Tale of Despereaux |
Winner |
| Kevin Henkes |
Olive's Ocean |
Honor |
| Jim Murphy |
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 |
Honor |
| 2005 |
Cynthia Kadohata |
Kira-Kira |
Winner |
| Gennifer Choldenko |
Al Capone Does My Shirts |
Honor |
| Russell Freedman |
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights |
Honor |
| Gary D. Schmidt |
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy |
Honor |
| 2006 |
Lynne Rae Perkins |
Criss Cross |
Winner |
| Alan Armstrong |
Whittington |
Honor |
| Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow |
Honor |
| Shannon Hale |
Princess Academy |
Honor |
| Jacqueline Woodson |
Show Way |
Honor |
| 2007 |
Susan Patron |
The Higher Power of Lucky |
Winner |
| Jennifer L. Holm |
Penny from Heaven |
Honor |
| Kirby Larson |
Hattie Big Sky |
Honor |
| Cynthia Lord |
Rules |
Honor |
| 2008 |
Laura Amy Schlitz |
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village |
Winner |
| Christopher Paul Curtis |
Elijah of Buxton |
Honor |
| Gary D. Schmidt |
The Wednesday Wars |
Honor |
| Jacqueline Woodson |
Feathers |
Honor |
| 2009 |
Neil Gaiman |
The Graveyard Book |
Winner |
| Kathi Appelt |
The Underneath |
Honor |
| Margarita Engle |
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom |
Honor |
| Ingrid Law |
Savvy |
Honor |
| Jacqueline Woodson |
After Tupac and D Foster |
Honor |
| 2010 |
Rebecca Stead |
When You Reach Me |
Winner |
| Phillip Hoose |
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice |
Honor |
| Jacqueline Kelly |
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate |
Honor |
| Grace Lin |
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon |
Honor |
| Rodman Philbrick |
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg |
Honor |
| 2011 |
Clare Vanderpool |
Moon Over Manifest |
Winner |
| Jennifer L. Holm |
Turtle in Paradise |
Honor |
| Margi Preus |
Heart of a Samurai |
Honor |
| Joyce Sidman |
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night |
Honor |
| Rita Williams-Garcia |
One Crazy Summer |
Honor |
| 2012 |
Jack Gantos |
Dead End in Norvelt |
Winner |
| Thanhha Lai |
Inside Out & Back Again |
Honor |
| Eugene Yelchin |
Breaking Stalin's Nose |
Honor |
| 2013 |
Katherine Applegate |
The One and Only Ivan |
Winner |
| Laura Amy Schlitz |
Splendors and Glooms |
Honor |
| Steve Sheinkin |
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon |
Honor |
| Sheila Turnage |
Three Times Lucky |
Honor |
| 2014 |
Kate DiCamillo |
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures |
Winner |
| Holly Black |
Doll Bones |
Honor |
| Kevin Henkes |
The Year of Billy Miller |
Honor |
| Amy Timberlake |
One Came Home |
Honor |
| Vince Vawter |
Paperboy |
Honor |
| 2015 |
Kwame Alexander |
The Crossover |
Winner |
| Cece Bell |
El Deafo |
Honor |
| Jacqueline Woodson |
Brown Girl Dreaming |
Honor |
| 2016 |
Matt de la Peña |
Last Stop on Market Street |
Winner |
| Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
The War That Saved My Life |
Honor |
| Victoria Jamieson |
Roller Girl |
Honor |
| Pam Muñoz Ryan |
Echo |
Honor |
| 2017 |
Kelly Barnhill |
The Girl Who Drank the Moon |
Winner |
| Ashley Bryan |
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan |
Honor |
| Adam Gidwitz |
The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog |
Honor |
| Lauren Wolk |
Wolf Hollow |
Honor |
| 2018 |
Erin Entrada Kelly |
Hello, Universe |
Winner |
| Derrick Barnes |
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut |
Honor |
| Jason Reynolds |
Long Way Down |
Honor |
| Renée Watson |
Piecing Me Together |
Honor |
| 2019 |
Meg Medina |
Merci Suárez Changes Gears |
Winner |
| Veera Hiranandani |
The Night Diary |
Honor |
| Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
The Book of Boy |
Honor |
| 2020 |
Jerry Craft |
New Kid |
Winner |
| Kwame Alexander |
The Undefeated |
Honor |
| Christian McKay Heidicker |
Scary Stories for Young Foxes |
Honor |
| Jasmine Warga |
Other Words for Home |
Honor |
| Alicia D. Williams |
Genesis Begins Again |
Honor |
| 2021 |
Tae Keller |
When You Trap a Tiger |
Winner |
| Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
Fighting Words |
Honor |
| Erin Entrada Kelly |
We Dream of Space |
Honor |
| Christina Soontornvat |
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team |
Honor |
| Christina Soontornvat |
A Wish in the Dark |
Honor |
| Carole Boston Weatherford |
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom |
Honor |
| 2022 |
Donna Barba Higuera |
The Last Cuentista |
Winner |
| Rajani LaRocca |
Red, White, and Whole |
Honor |
| Darcie Little Badger |
A Snake Falls to Earth |
Honor |
| Kyle Lukoff |
Too Bright to See |
Honor |
| Andrea Wang |
Watercress |
Honor |
| 2023 |
Amina Luqman-Dawson |
Freewater |
Winner |
| Andrea Beatriz Arango |
Iveliz Explains It All |
Honor |
| Christina Soontornvat |
The Last Mapmaker |
Honor |
| Lisa Yee |
Maizy Chen's Last Chance |
Honor |
| 2024 |
Dave Eggers |
The Eyes and the Impossible |
Winner |
| M.T. Anderson |
Elf Dog and Owl Head |
Honor |
| Erin Bow |
Simon Sort of Says |
Honor |
| Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson |
Eagle Drums |
Honor |
| Pedro Martín |
MexiKid: A Graphic Memoir |
Honor |
| Daniel Nayeri |
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams |
Honor |
| 2025 |
Erin Entrada Kelly |
The First State of Being |
Winner |
| Ruth Behar |
Across So Many Seas |
Honor |
| Lesa Cline-Ransome |
One Big Open Sky |
Honor |
| Chanel Miller |
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All |
Honor |
| Kate O'Shaughnessy |
The Wrong Way Home |
Honor |