1998 
 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse--Winner! 

Honor Books: 
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine--Unit in Heart of the Hero

Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff 
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli 
 

1997 
 The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg--Winner! 
Honor Books: 
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer 
The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw 
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner 
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White 
 

1996 
 The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman--Winner! 
Honor Books: 
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman 
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner 
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy 
 

1995 
 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech--Winner! 
Honor Books: 
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman 
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer 
 

1994 
The Giver by Lois Lowry--Winner! 
Honor Books:
Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly 
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep 
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman 
 

1993 
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant--Winner! 
Honor Books: 
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks 
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack 
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers 
 

1992 
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor--Winner! 
Honor Books: 
Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman 
 

1991 
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli--Winner! 
Honor Book 
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi 
 

1990 
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle 
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples 
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen 
 

1989 
Joyful Noise: Poems of Two Voices by Paul Fleischman--Winner! 
Honor Books 
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton 
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers 
 

1988 
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman--Winner! 
Honor Books 
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer 
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 
 

1987 
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman--Winner! 
Honor Books 
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant 
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer 
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber 
 

1986 
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg 
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen 
 

1985 
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes 
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks 
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox 
 

1984 
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare  50+ page Kids' Wings Unit Available Contact Suzy Red
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt 
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky 
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain 
 

1983 
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley 
Doctor De Soto by William Steig 
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman 
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz 
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton 
 

1982 
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary 
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal 
 

1981 
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Fledgling by Jane Langton 
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle 
 

1980 
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 by Joan Blos--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Road from Home by David Kherdian 
 

1979 
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin--Winner! 
Honor Book 
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson 
 

1978 
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary 
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater 
 

1977 
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Abel's Island by William Steig 
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond 
 

1976 
The Grey King by Susan Cooper--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis 
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep 
 

1975 
M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin 
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier 
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope 
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene 
 

1974 
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox--Winner! 
Honor Book 
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper 
 

1973 
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel 
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss 
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 
 

1972 
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert 
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton 
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin 
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles 
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 
 

1971 
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt 
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl 
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell 
 

1970 
Sounder by William H. Armstrong--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor 
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore 
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele 
 

1969 
The High King by Lloyd Alexander--Winner! 
Honor Books 
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester 
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer 
 

1968 
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg 
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell 
The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer 
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 
 

1967 
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell 
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer 
The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik 
 

1966 
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander 
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell 
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz 
 

1965 
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska--Winner! 
Honor Book 
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt 
 

1964 
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Rascal by Sterling North 
The Loner by Ester Wier 
 

1963 
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger) 
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge 
 

1962 
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis 
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw 
Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz 
 

1961 
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell--Winner! 
Honor Books 
America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald Johnson 
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer 
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson) 
 

1960 
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold--Winner! 
Honor Books 
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George 
America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald Johnson 
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall 
 

1959 
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson 
Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong 
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay 
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele 
 

1958 
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz 
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright 
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson 
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko 
 

1957 
Miracle on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson 
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong 
Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson 
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads 
The Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli 
 

1956 
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist 
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen 
 

1955 
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong--Winn
er!  Honor Books 
Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh  --50 page unit available Contact Suzy Red
Banner in the Sky by James Ullman 
 

1954 
And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold--Winner! 
Honor Books 
All Alone by Claire H. Bishop 
Shadrach by Meindert DeJong 
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong 
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson 
Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff 
 

1953 
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw 
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil 
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh 
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster 
 

1952 
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity 
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling 
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff 
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer 
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff 
 

1951 
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt 
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton 
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson 
The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish 
 

1950 
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill 
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz 
Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery 
George Washington by Genevieve Foster 
Sound of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter and Marion Havighurst 
 

1949 
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Seabird by Holling C. Holling 
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin 
My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett 
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps 
 

1948 
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Pancakes-Paris by Claire H. Bishop 
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger 
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman 
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander 
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry 
 

1947 
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes 
Big Tree by Mary and Conrad Buff 
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell 
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) 
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett 
 

1946 
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry 
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means 
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston 
New Found World by Katherine Shippen 
 

1945 
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes 
The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh 
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster 
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Easton 
 

1944 
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes--Winner! 
Honor Books 
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
Fog Magic by Julia Sauer 
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes 
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates 
 

1943 
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes 
Have You Seen Tom Thumb by Mabel Leigh Hunt 
 

1942 
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster 
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski 
Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin 
 

1941 
Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Blue Willow by Doris Gates 
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr 
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall 
 

1940 
Daniel Boone by James Daugherty--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy 
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson 
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
Boy With a Pack by Stephen W. Meader 
 

1939 
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Nino by Valenti Angelo 
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater 
Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford 
Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton 
Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray 
 

1938 
The White Stag by Kate Seredy--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman 
Bright Island by Mabel Robinson 
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
 

1937 
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski 
Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones 
The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans 
Winterbound by Margery Bianco 
The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes 
Audubon by Constance Rourke 
 

1936 
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Honk, the Moose by Phil Strong 
The Good Master by Kate Seredy 
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray 
All Sail: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry 
 

1935 
Dobry by Monica Shannon--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger 
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke 
Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda von Stockum 
 

1934 
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker 
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster 
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág 
Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) 
New Land by Sarah Schmidt 
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum 
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes 
Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle 
 

1933 
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs 
The Railroad of Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift 
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon 
 

1932 
Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop 
Calico Bush by Rachel Field 
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens 
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery 
Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee 
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis 
 

1931 
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Floating Island by Anne Parrish 
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus 
Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard 
Mountains Are Free by Julia Davis Adams 
Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes 
Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray 
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best 
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen 
 

1930 
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field--Winner! 
Honor Books 
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton 
Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller 
Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely 
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young 
Vaino by Julia Davis Adams 
Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift 
 

1929 
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly--Winner! 
Honor Books 
Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett 
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág 
The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock 
Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs 
Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon 
Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney 
 

1928 
Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young 
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker 
 

1927 
Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James--Winner! 
 

1926 
Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum 
 

1925 
Tales from the Silver Lands by Charles Finger--Winner! 
Honor Books
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore 
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish 
 

1924 
The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes--Winner! 
 

1923 
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting--Winner! 
 

1922 
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon--Winner! 
Honor Books 
The Great Quest by Charles Hawes 
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall 
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen 
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum 
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs