2010: When You Reach Me
          by Rebecca Stead
2009: The Graveyard Book
          by Neil Gaiman
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!           Voices from a Medieval Village           by Laura Amy Schlitz
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky
          by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt           Phelan
2006: Criss Cross
          by Lynne Rae Perkins
2005: Kira-Kira
          by Cynthia Kadohata
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being           the Story of a Mouse, a
          Princess, Some Soup, and a           Spool of Thread
          by Kate DiCamillo
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead
          by Avi
2002: A Single Shard
          by Linda Sue Park
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:           Poems for Innocent and          
          Experienced Travelers
          by Nancy Willard
1981: Jacob Have I Loved
          by Katherine Paterson
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New           England Girl's Journal,
         1830-1832
          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
          by Robert C. O'Brien
1971: Summer of the Swans
          by Betsy Byars
1970: Sounder
          by William H. Armstrong
1969: The High King
          by Lloyd Alexander
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files 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                     (Atheneum)
1964: It's Like This, Cat
          by Emily 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 Sorenson
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
          by Jean Lee Latham
1955: The Wheel on the School
          by Meindert DeJong
1954: ...And Now Miguel
          by Joseph Krumgold
1953: Secret of the Andes
          by Ann Nolan Clark
1952: Ginger Pye
          by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man
          by Elizabeth Yates
1950: The Door in the Wall
          by Marguerite de Angeli

YOUNG ADULT
CHILDRENS FICTION
INFORMATIONAL
PICTURE
POETRY

YOUNG ADULT   Back to top
2010 Hunger Games
         by Suzanne Collins
2009 Wildwood Dancing
         by Juliet Marillier
2008 Bad Kitty
         by Michele Jaffe
2006 The Lightning Thief: Percy          Jackson and the Olympians
         by Rick Riodan
2005 Airborn
         by Kenneth Oppel
2004 Eragon
         by Christopher Paolini
2003 Touching Spirit Bear
         by Ben Mikaelsen
2002 Downsiders
         by Neal Schusterman
2001 Long Way from Chicago: A         
         Novel in Stories
         by Richard Peck
2000 Little Sister
         by Kara Dalkey
1999 SOS Titanic
         by Eve Bunting
1998 Merlin Effect
         by T.A. Barron
1997 In My Father's House
         by Ann Rinaldi
1996 Nothing to Fear
         by Jackie French Koller
1995 Amazing Gracie
         by A. E. Cannon
1994 True Confessions of Charlotte          Doyle
         by Avi
1993 Sniper
         by Theodore Taylor
1992 Don't Look Back
         by Lois Duncan
1991 Other Side of Dark
         by Joan Nixon

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2010 The Magic Thief
         by Sarah Prineas
2009 The Candy Shop War
         by Brandon Mull
2008 The Miraculous Journey of                   Edward Tulane
         by Kate DiCamillo
2007 Princess Academy
         by Shannon Hale
2006 Dragon Rider
         by Cornelia Funke
2005 City of Ember
         by Jeanne Du Prau
2004 Ruby Holler
         by Sharon Creech
2003 Two Princesses of Bamarre
         by Gail Carson Levine
2002 Midnight Magic
         by Avi
2001 Secret of Platform 13
         by Eva lbbotson
2000 Frindle
         by Andrew Clements
1999 Earthquake Terror
         by Peg Kehret
1998 Someone Was Watching
         by David Patneaude
1997 Watchdog and the Coyotes
         by Bill Wallace
1996 Time for Andrew
         by Mary Downing Hahn
1995 Ghosts of Mercy Manor
         by Betty Ren Wright
1994 Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon                    Hatcher          
         by Bruce Coville
1993 Dead Man in Indian Creek
         by Mary Downing Hahn
1992 A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
         by Louis Sachar
1991 Matilda
         by Roald Dahl
1990 This Island Isn't Big Enough for          the Four of Us
         by Gary Greer
1989 Trapped in Death Cave
         by Bill Wallace
1988 Wait Til Helen Comes
         by Mary Downing Hahn
1987 Skinny Jones
         by Barbara Park
1986 Just Me and the Weirdos
         by Jane Sutton
1985 Stone Fox
         by John Gardiner
1984 Lost in the Devil's Desert
         by Gloris Skurzynski
1983 The Chocolate Touch
         by Patrick Catling
1982 Superfudge
         by Judy Blume
1981 Eddie's Menagerie
         by Carolyn Haywood
1981 The Letter, the Witch, and the          Ring          
         by John Bellairs
1980 Ramona and Her Father
         by Beverly Cleary

INFORMATIONAL   Back to top
2010 How Big Is It?: a Big Book all          About Bigness
         by Ben Hillman
2009 The Dangerous Book for Boys
         by Conn and Hal Iggulden
2008 What if you Met a Pirate? An          Historical Voyage of Seafaring          Speculation
         by Jan Adkins
2007 Life-Size Dinosaurs
         by David Bergen
2006 Actual Size
         by Steve Jenkins
2005 How Angel Peterson Got his          Name
         by Gary Paulson
2004 Leonardo's Horse
         by Jean Fritz
2003 Tiger Math : Learning to Graph          from a Baby Tiger
         by Ann Whitehead
2002 The Snake Scientist
         by Sy Montgomery
2001 If You Hopped Like a Frog
         by David Schwartz
2000 A Drop of Water: A Book of          Science and Wonder
         by Walter Wick
1999 Passage to Freedom: The                   Sugihara Story
         by Ken Mochizuki
1998 It's a Spoon, Not a Shovel
         by Caralyn Buehner
1997 Never Take a Pig to Lunch and          Other Poems About the Fun of          Eating
         by Nadine Bernard Westcott
1996 Mummies and Their Mysteries
         by Charlotte Wilcox
1995 Sadako
         by Eleanor Coerr
1994 Stephen Biesty's Incredible                    Cross Sections
         by Richard Platt
1993 Dolphin Adventure
         by Wayne Grover
1992 Ant Colony
         by H. Fischner-Nagel
1991 Bill Peet : An Autobiography
         by Bill Peet
1990 How To Make Pop-Ups
         by Joan Irvine
1989 Your Amazing Senses
         by Ron Van Der Meer
1988 How Much Is A Million
         by David Schwartz
1986 Great Painters
         by Piero Ventura

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2010 When Dinosaurs Came With          Everything
         by Elis Broach; illustrated by David          Small
2009 If I Built a Car
         by Chris Van Dusen
2008 Mommy?
         by Maurice Sendak
2007 Where's the Dragon
         by Jason Hook
2006 Some Dogs Do
         by Jex Alborough
2005 Diary of a Worm
         by Doreen Cronin
2004 Bertie was a Watchdog
         by Rick Walton
2003 Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon
         by Patty Lovell
2002 Sitting Ducks
         by Michael Bedard
2001 Hooway for Wodney Wat
         by Helen Lester
2000 A Bad Case of Stripes
         by David Shannon
1999 Watch Out! Big Bro's Coming!
         by Jez Alborough
1998 Anansi and the Talking Melon
         by Eric Kimmel
1997 A Job for Wittilda
         by Caralyn Buehner
1996 Two of Everything : A Chinese          Folk Tale
         by Lily Toy Hong

POETRY   Back to top
2010 On, Theodore!: Guinea Pig                   Poems
         by Susan Katz; ill. by Stacey Schuett
2009 Dogku
         by Andrew Clements; ill. by Tim          Bowers
2008 Once I Ate a Pie
         by Patricia MacLachlan, Emily                   MacLachlan Charest, and Katy          Schneider
2007 Hotel Deep: Light Verse from          Dark Water
         by Kurt Cyrus
2006 Rolling in the Aisles: a Collection          of Laugh-out-loud Poems
         by Bruce Lansky
2005 Giant Children
         by Brod Bagert
2004 The Moon & Riddles Diner and          the Sunnyside Cafe
         by Nancy Willard
2003 Take Me Out of the Bathtub
         by Alan Katz
2002 Insectlopedia : Poems and                    Paintings
         by Douglas Florian

2010 The Lion & the Mouse
         by Jerry Pinkney
2009 The House in the Night
         by Beth Krommesby Beth          Krommes
2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret
         by Brian Selznick
2007 Flotsam
         by David Wiesner
2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window
         by Chris Raschka
2005 Kitten's First Full Moon
         by Kevin Henkes
2004 The Man Who Walked          Between the Towers
         by Mordicai Gerstein
2003 My Friend Rabbit
         by Eric Rohmann
2002 The Three Pigs
         by David Wiesner
2001 So You Want to Be President:
         illus.by David Small
2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat          by Simms Taback
1999 Snowflake Bentley
         illus. by Mary Azarian
1998 Rapunzel
         by Paul O. Zelinsky
1997 Golem
         by David Wisniewski
1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria
         by Peggy Rathmann
1995 Smoky Night
         illus. by David Diaz
1994 Grandfather's Journey
         illus. by Allen Say
1993 Mirette on the High Wire
         by Emily Arnold McCully
1992 Tuesday
          by David Wiesner
1991 Black and White
         by David Macoulay
1990 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood          Story from China
         by Ed Young
1989 Song and Dance Man
         ill. by Stephen Gammell
1988 Owl Moon
         illus. by John Schoenherr
1987 Hey, Al
         illus. by Richard Egielski
1986 The Polar Express
         by Chris Van Allsburg
1985 Saint George and The Dragon
         illus. by Trina Schart Hyman
1984 The Glorious Flight: Across the          Channel with Louis Bleriot
         by Alice & Martin Provensen
1983 Shadow
         illus. by Marcia Brown
1982 Jumanji
         by Chris Van Allsburg
1981 Fables
         by Arnold Lobel
1980 Ox-Cart Man
         illus. by Barbara Cooney
1979 The Girl Who Loved Wild          Horses
         by Paul Goble
1978 Noah's Ark
         by Peter Spier
1977 Ashanti to Zulu: African          Traditions
         illus. by Leo & Diane Dillon
1976 Why Mosquitoes Buss in          People's Ears
         illus. by Leo & Diane Dillon
1975 Arrow to the Sun
         by Gerald McDermott
1974 Duffy and the Devil
         illus. by Margot Zemach
1973 The Funny Little Woman
         illus. by Blair Lent
1972 One Fine Day
         illus. by Nonny Hogrogian
1971 A Story A Story
         illus. by Gail E. Haley
1970 Sylvester and the Magic          Pebble
         by William Steig
1969 The Fool of the World and the          Flying Ship
         illus. by Uri Shulevitz
1968 Drummer Hoff
         illus. by Ed Emberley
1967 Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
         by Evaline Ness
1966 Always Room for One More
         illus. by Nonny Hogrogian
1965 May I Bring a Friend?
         illus. by Beni Montresor
1964 Where the Wild Things Are
         by Maurice Sendak
1963 The Snowy Day
         by Ezra Jack Keats
1962 Once a Mouse
         illus. by Marcia Brown
1961 Baboushka and the Three          Kings
         illus. by Nicolas Sidjakov
1960 Nine Days to Christmas
         illus. by Marie Hall Ets