| 2000 |
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis |
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| 1999 |
Holes, Louis Sacher |
| 1998 |
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse |
| 1997 |
The View from Saturday, E. L. Konigsburg |
| 1996 |
The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman |
| 1995 |
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech |
| 1994 |
The Giver, Lois Lowry |
| 1993 |
Missing May, Cynthia Rylant |
| 1992 |
Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| 1991 |
Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli |
| 1990 |
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry |
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| 1989 |
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman |
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| 1988 |
Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman |
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| 1987 |
The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman |
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| 1986 |
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan |
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| 1985 |
The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley |
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| 1984 |
Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary |
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| 1983 |
Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt |
| 1982 |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, Nancy Willard |
| 1981 |
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson |
| 1980 |
A Gathering of Days, Joan Blos |
| 1979 |
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin |
| 1978 |
The Bridge to Terebithia, Katherine Paterson |
| 1977 |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor |
| 1976 |
Grey King, Susan Cooper |
| 1975 |
M. C. Higgins the Great, Virginia Hamilton |
| 1974 |
The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox |
| 1973 |
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George |
| 1972 |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien |
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| 1971 |
The Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars |
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| 1970 |
Sounder, William H. Armstrong |
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| 1969 |
The High King, Lloyd Alexander |
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| 1968 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg |
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| 1967 |
Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt |
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| 1966 |
I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Barton de Trevino |
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| 1965 |
Shadow of a Bull, Maja Wojciechowska |
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| 1964 |
It's Like This, Cat, Emily Cheney Neville |
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| 1963 |
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle |
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| 1962 |
The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare |
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| 1961 |
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell |
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| 1960 |
Onion John, Joseph Krumgold |
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| 1959 |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare |
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| 1958 |
Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith |
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| 1957 |
Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Sorensen |
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| 1956 |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham |
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| 1955 |
The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong |
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| 1954 |
...And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold |
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| 1953 |
Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark |
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| 1952 |
Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes |
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| 1951 |
Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates |
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| 1950 |
The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli |
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| 1949 |
King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry |
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| 1948 |
The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene Du Bois |
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| 1947 |
Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
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| 1946 |
Strawberry Girl, Lois Lensky |
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| 1945 |
Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson |
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| 1944 |
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes |
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| 1943 |
Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray |
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| 1942 |
The Matchlock Gun, Walter D. Edmonds |
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| 1941 |
Call It Courage, Armstrong Sperry |
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| 1940 |
Daniel Boone, James Daugherty |
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| 1939 |
Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright |
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| 1938 |
The White Stag, Kate Seredy |
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| 1937 |
Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer |
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| 1936 |
Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink |
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| 1935 |
Dobry, Monica Shannon |
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| 1934 |
Invincible Louisa, Cornelia Lynde Meigs |
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| 1933 |
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis |
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| 1932 |
Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer |
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| 1931 |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Coatsworth |
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| 1930 |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field |
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| 1929 |
The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly |
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| 1928 |
Gay-Neck, Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
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| 1927 |
Smoky, the Cowhorse, Will James |
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| 1926 |
Shen of the Sea, Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
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| 1925 |
Tales from Silver Lands, Charles Joseph Finger |
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| 1924 |
The Dark Frigate, Charles Boardman Hawes |
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| 1923 |
The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle, Hugh Loftig |
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| 1922 |
The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem van Loon |
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