2013 - Katherine Applegate. The One and Only Ivan
2012 - Jack Gantos. Dead End in Norvelt
2011 - Clare Vanderpool. Moon Over Manifest
2010 - Rebecca Stead. When You Reach Me
2009 - Neil Gaiman. The Graveyard Book
2008 - Laura Amy Schlitz. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
2007 - Susan Patron. The Higher Power of Lucky
2006 - Lynne Rae Perkins. Criss Cross
2005 - Cynthia Kadohata. Kira-Kira
2004 - Kate DiCamillo. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
2003 - Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead
2002 - Linda Sue Park. A Single Shard
2001 - Richard Peck. A Year Down Yonder
2000 - Christopher Curtis. Bud, Not Buddy
1999 - Louis Sachar. Holes
1998 - Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust
1997 - E.L. Konigsburg. The View From Saturday
1996 - Karen Cushman. The Midwife's Apprentice
1995 - Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons
1994 - Lois Lowry. The Giver
1993 - Cynthia Rylant. Missing May
1992 - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Shiloh
1991 - Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee
1990 - Lois Lowry. Number the Stars
1989 - Paul Fleischman. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1988 - Russell Freedman. Lincoln: A Photobiography
1987 - Sid Fleischman. The Whipping Boy
1986 - Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall
1985 - Robin McKinley. The Hero and the Crown
1984 - Beverly Cleary. Dear Mr. Henshaw
1983 - Cynthia Voigt. Dicey's Song
1982 - Nancy Willard. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
1981 - Katherine Paterson. Jacob Have I Loved
1980 - Joan Blos. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
1979 - Ellen Raskin. The Westing Game
1978 - Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia
1977 - Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 - Susan Cooper. The Grey King
1975 - Virginia Hamilton. M.C. Higgins, the Great
1974 - Paula Fox. The Slave Dancer
1973 - Jean Craighead George. Julie of the Wolves
1972 - Robert C. O'Brien. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971 - Betsy Byars. The Summer of the Swans
1970 - William H. Armstrong. Sounder
1969 - Lloyd Alexander. The High King
1968 - E.L. Konigsburg. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1967 - Irene Hunt. Up a Road Slowly
1966 - Elizabeth Borton de Treviño. I, Juan de Pareja
1965 - Maia Wojciechowska. Shadow of a Bull
1964 - Emily C. Neville. It's Like This, Cat
1963 - Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time
1962 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Bronze Bow
1961 - Scott O'Dell. Island of the Blue Dolphins
1960 - John Krumgold. Onion John
1959 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1958 - Harold V. Keith. Rifles for Watie
1957 - Virginia Sorensen. Miracles on Maple Hill
1956 - Jean Lee Latham. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1955 - Meindert DeJong. The Wheel on the School
1954 - John Krumgold. ... And Now Miguel
1953 - Ann Nolan Clark. Secret of the Andes
1952 - Eleanor Estes. Ginger Pye
1951 - Elizabeth Yates. Amos Fortune, Free Man
1950 - Marguerite de Angeli. The Door in the Wall
1949 - Marguerite Henry. King of the Wind
1948 - William Pène du Bois. The Twenty-One Balloons
1947 - Carolyn S. Bailey. Miss Hickory
1946 - Lois Lenski. Strawberry Girl
1945 - Robert Lawson. Rabbit Hill
1944 - Esther Forbes. Johnny Tremain
1943 - Elizabeth Janet Gray. Adam of the Road
1942 - Walter D. Edmonds. The Matchlock Gun
1941 - Armstrong Sperry. Call It Courage
1940 - James Daugherty. Daniel Boone
1939 - Elizabeth Enright. Thimble Summer
1938 - Kate Seredy. The White Stag
1937 - Ruth Sawyer. Roller Skates
1936 - Carol Ryrie Brink. Caddie Woodlawn
1935 - Monica Shannon. Dobry
1934 - Cornelia Meigs. Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
1933 - Elizabeth Lewis. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1932 - Laura Adams Armer. Waterless Mountain
1931 - Elizabeth Coatsworth. The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1930 - Rachel Field. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
1929 - Eric P Kelly. The Trumpeter of Krakow: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century
1928 - Dhan Mukerji. Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1927 - Will James. Smoky, the Cow Horse
1926 - Arthur Chrisman. Shen of the Sea
1925 - Charles Finger. Tales from Silver Lands
1924 - Charles Hawes. The Dark Frigate
1923 - Hugh Lofting. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
1922 - Hendrik Van Loon. The Story of Mankind