2012 Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

2011 Moon after Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

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

2006  Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

2005  Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

2004  The Tales 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 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 Robin McKinley

1984  Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

1983  Dicey's Song by Cynthia Viogt

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