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2023: Freewater, by Amina Luqman-Dawson (J LUQ)
2022: The Last Cuentista, by Donna Barba Higuera (TWN HIG)
2021: When You Trap a Tiger, by Tae Keller (J KEL)
2020: New Kid, by Jerry Craft (J GRAPHIC NOVEL CRA)
2019: Merci Suárez Changes Gears, by Meg Medina (J MED, J CDB MED)
2018: Hello, Universe, by Erin Entrada Kelly (J KEL, YA CDB KEL)
2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill (J BAR, J CDB BAR)
2016: Last Stop on Market Street, by Matt de la Peña (JP DEL, J CDB DEL)
2015: The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander (J ALE, J CDB ALE)
2014: Flora & Ulysses, by Kate DiCamillo (J DIC)
2013: The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate (J APP)
2012: Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos (YA GAN)
2011: Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool (J VAN)
2010: When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead (YA STE)
2009: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (YA GAI)
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz (J 812.6 S)
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron (J PAT)
2006: Criss Cross, by Lynne Rae Perkins (YA PER)
2005: Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata (YA KAD)
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo (J DIC)
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead, by Avi (J AVI)
2002: A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park (J PAR)
2001: A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck (J PBK PEC)
2000: Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis (J CUR)
1999: Holes, by Louis Sacher (YA SAC)
1998: Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse (YA HES)
1997: The View from Saturday, by E.L. Konigsburg (J KON)
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice, by Karen Cushman (YA CUS)
1995: Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech (YA CRE)
1994: The Giver, by Lois Lowry (YA LOW)
1993: Missing May, by Cynthia Rylant (J RYL)
1992: Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (J NAY)
1991: Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli (J PBK SPI)
1990: Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry (J LOW)
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, by Paul Fleischman (J 811 F)
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography, by Russell Freedman (JB LIN)
1987: The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleishman (J FLE)
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan (J MAC)
1985: The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley (YA MCK)
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary (J CLE)
1983: Dicey's Song, by Cynthia Voigt (J VOI)
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, by Nancy Willard (J 811.54 W)
1981: Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson (J PAT)
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32, by Joan W. Blos (J BLO)
1979: The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin (J RAS)
1978: Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson (J PAT)
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor (J PBK TAY)
1976: The Grey King, by Susan Cooper (YA COO)
1975: M.C. Higgins, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton (J HAM)
1974: The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox (J FOX)
1973: Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George (J GEO)
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O'Brien (J OBR)
1971: The Summer of the Swans, by Betsy Cromer Byars (J BYA)
1970: Sounder, by William Howard Armstrong (J ARM)
1969: The High King, by Lloyd Alexander (J ALE)
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg (J KON)
1967: Up a Road Slowly, by Irene Hunt (J HUN)
1966: I, Juan de Pareja, by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (YA TRE)
1965: Shadow of a Bull, by Maia Wojciechowska (J WOJ)
1964: It's Like This, Cat, by Emily Neville (J NEV)
1963: A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (J LEN)
1962: The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare (J SPE)
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell (J ODE)
1960: Onion John, by Joseph Krumgold (J KRU)
1959: The With of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare (YA SPE)
1958: Rifles for Watie, by Harold Keith (J KEI)
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill, by Virginia Sorenson (J SOR)
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham (J LAT)
1955: Wheel on the School, by Meindert DeJong (J DEJ)
1954: ...And Now Miguel, by Joseph Krumgold (J KRU)
1953: Secret of the Andes, by Ann Nolan Clark (J CLA)
1952: Ginger Pye, by Eleanor Estes (J EST)
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man, by Elizabeth Yates (JB FOR)
1950: The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite De Angeli (J DEA)
1949: King of the Wind, by Marguerite Henry (J HEN)
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pene Du Bois (J DUB)
1947: Miss Hickory, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (J BAI)
1946: Strawberry Girl, by Lois Lenski (J LEN)
1945: Rabbit Hill, by Robert Lawson (J LAW)
1944: Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes (J FOR)
1943: Adam of the Road, by Elizabeth Gray Vining (J GRA)
1942: Matchlock Gun, by Walter Dumaux Edmonds (JI EDM)
1941: Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry (J SPE)
1940: Daniel Boone, by James Daughtery (Out of Print)
1939: Thimble Summer, by Elizabeth Enright (J ERN)
1938: The White Stag, by Kate Seredy (Unavailable)
1937: Roller Skates, by Ruth Sawyer (J SAW)
1936: Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink (J BRI)
1935: Dobry, by Monica Shannon (J SHA)
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women, by Cornelia Meigs (JB ALC)
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, by Elizabeth Lewis (J LEW)
1932: Waterless Mountain, by Laura Armer (Out of Print)
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven, by Elizabeth Coatsworth (J COA)
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, by Rachel Field (J FIE)
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow, by Eric P. Kelly (YA KEL)
1928: Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (YA MUK)
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse, by Will James (J JAM)
1926: Shen of the Sea, by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (J CHR)
1925: Tales from Silver Lands, by Charles Finger (J 398.2 F)
1924: The Dark Frigate, by Charles Hawes (YA HAW)
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting (J LOF)
1922: The Story of Mankind, by Hendrick Willem Van Loon (J 909 V)
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