2001 A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

2000 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

1999 Holes by Louis Sachar

1998 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

1997 The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

1996 The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

1995 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry

1993 Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

1992 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1991 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

1990 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

1987 The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachlan

1985 The Hero and the Crown by Robin Mckinley

1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

1983 Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

1982 A Visit To William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard

1981 Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

1980 A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos

1979 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

1978 Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

1976 The Grey King by Susan Cooper

1975 M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

1974 The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

1973 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (aladdin) by Robert C. O'brien

1971 The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Cromer Byars

1970 Sounder by William H. Armstrong

1969 The High King by Lloyd Alexander

1968 From the Mixed-up File of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

1967 Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

1966 I, Juan De Pareja by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

1965 Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

1964 It's Like This Cat by Emily Cheney Neville

1963 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle

1962 The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'dell

1960 Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

1958 Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

1957 Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen

1956 Carry on Mr Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

1955 The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong

1954 And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

1953 Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

1952 Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

1950 The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli

1949 King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

1948 The Twenty-one Balloons by William Paene Du Bois

1947 Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

1946 Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

1945 Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

1944 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

1943 Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1942 The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

1941 Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

1940 Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

1939 Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

1938 The White Stag by Kate Seredy

1937 Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

1936 Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

1935 Dobry by Monica. Shannon

1934 Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs

1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

1932 Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

1931 The Cat Who Went To Heaven by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

1930 Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

1928 Gay Neck by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

1927 Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James

1926 Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

1925 Tales From the Silver Lands by Charles Finger

1924 The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes

1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

1922 The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon