|
2005 Medal Winner:
Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Honor Books:
 | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by
Gary D. Schmidt |
 | Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer
Choldenko |
 | The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and
the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman |
2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of
Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool
of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy
Basil Ering
Honor Books:
 | Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes |
 | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy |
2003 Medal Winner: Crispin:
The Cross of Lead by Avi
Honor Books:
 | The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer |
 | Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff |
 | Hoot by Carl Hiaasen |
 | A Corner of The Universe by Anne M. Martin |
 | Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan |
2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
Honor Books:
 | Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath |
 | Carver: A Life in Poems
by Marilyn Nelson |
2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Honor Books:
 | Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo |
 | Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer |
 | Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos |
 | The Wanderer by Sharon Creech |
2000 Medal Winner: Bud,
Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books:
 |
Getting
Near to a Baby by Audrey Couloumbis |
 | Our
Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm |
 | 26
Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola |
1999 Medal Winner: Holes
by Louis Sachar
Honor Book:
 |
A
Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck |
1998 Medal Winner: Out of the
Dust by Karen Hesse
Honor Books:
 |
Ella
Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine |
 | Lily's
Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff |
 | Wringer
by Jerry Spinelli |
1997 Medal Winner: The View from
Saturday
by E.L. Konigsburg
Honor Books:
 |
A
Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer |
 | Moorchild
by Eloise McGraw |
 | The
Thief by Megan Whalen Turner |
 | Belle
Prater's Boy by Ruth White |
1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's
Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Honor Books:
 |
What
Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman |
 | The
Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis |
 | Yolonda's
Genius by Carol Fenner |
 | The
Great Fire by Jim Murphy |
1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
Honor Books:
 |
Catherine,
Called Birdy by Karen Cushman |
 | The
Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer |
1994 Medal Winner: The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Honor Books:
 |
Crazy
Lady by Jane Leslie Conly |
 | Dragon's
Gate by Laurence Yep |
 | Eleanor
Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman |
1993 Medal Winner: Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant
Honor Books:
 |
What
Hearts by Bruce Brooks |
 | The
Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia
McKissack |
 | Somewhere
in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers |
1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Honor Books:
 |
Nothing
But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi |
 | The
Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell
Freedman |
1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
Honor Book:
 |
The
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi |
1990 Medal Winner: Number the
Stars by Lois Lowry
Honor Books:
 |
Afternoon
of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle |
 | Shabanu,
Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples |
 | The
Winter Room by Gary Paulsen |
1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise:
Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Honor Books:
 |
In
The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia
Hamilton |
 | Scorpions
by Walter Dean Myers |
1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A
Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Honor Books:
 |
After
The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer |
 | Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen |
1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping
Boy by Sid Fleischman
Honor Books:
 |
A
Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant |
 | On
My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer |
 | Volcano:
The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber |
1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain
and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Honor Books:
 |
Commodore
Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg |
 | Dogsong
by Gary Paulsen |
1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the
Crown
by Robin McKinley
Honor Books:
 |
Like
Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes |
 | The
Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks |
 | One-Eyed
Cat by Paula Fox |
1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr.
Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Honor Books:
 |
The
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Spear |
 | A
Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voight |
 | Sugaring
Time by Kathryn Lasky |
 | The
Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain |
1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt
Honor Books:
 |
The
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley |
 | Doctor
DeSoto by William Steig |
 | Graven
Images by Paul Fleischman |
 | Homesick:
My Own Story by Jean Fritz |
 | Sweet
Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton |
1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William
Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy
Willard
Honor Books:
 |
Ramona
Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary |
 | Upon
the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka
Siegal |
1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I
Loved by Katherine Paterson
Honor Books:
 |
The
Fledgling by Jane Langton |
 | A
Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle |
1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of
Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
Honor Book:
 |
The
Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian |
1979 Medal Winner: The Westing
Game by Ellen Raskin
Honor Book:
 |
The
Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson |
1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to
Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Honor Books:
 |
Ramona
and Her Father by Beverly Cleary |
 | Anpao:
An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater |
1977 Medal Winner: Roll of
Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor Books:
 |
Abel's
Island by William Steig |
 | A
String in the Harp by Nancy Bond |
1976 Medal Winner: The Grey King
by Susan Cooper
Honor Books:
 |
The
Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis |
 | Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep |
1975 Medal Winner: M. C. Higgins, the Great
by Virginia Hamilton
Honor Books:
 |
Figgs
& Phantoms by Ellen Raskin |
 | My
Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier |
 | The
Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope |
 | Philip
Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene |
1974 Medal Winner: The Slave Dancer by
Paula Fox (Bradbury)
Honor Book:
 |
The
Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper |
1973 Medal Winner: Julie of the
Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Honor Books:
 |
Frog
and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel |
 | The
Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss |
 | The
Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
1972 Medal Winner: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of
NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Honor Books:
 |
Incident
At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert |
 | The
Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton |
 | The
Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin |
 | Annie
and the Old One by Miska Miles |
 | The
Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
1971 Medal Winner: Summer of the
Swans by Betsy Byars
Honor Books:
 |
Knee
Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt |
 | Enchantress
From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl |
 | Sing
Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell |
1970 Medal Winner: Sounder
by William H. Armstrong
Honor Books:
 |
Our
Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor |
 | The
Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord
Moore |
 | Journey
Outside by Mary Q. Steele |
1969 Medal Winner: The High King
by Lloyd Alexander
Honor Books:
 |
To
Be a Slave by Julius Lester |
 | When
Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
1968 Medal Winner: From the
Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Honor Books:
 |
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg |
 | The
Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell |
 | The
Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
 | The
Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
1967 Medal Winner: Up a Road
Slowly by Irene Hunt
Honor Books:
 |
The
King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell |
 | Zlateh
The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
 | The
Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik |
1966 Medal Winner: I, Juan de
Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Honor Books:
 |
The
Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander |
 | The
Animal Family by Randall Jarrell |
 | The
Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz |
1965 Medal Winner: Shadow of a
Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
Honor Book:
 |
Across
Five Aprils by Irene Hunt |
1964 Medal Winner: It's Like
This, Cat by Emily Neville
Honor Books:
 |
Rascal:
A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North |
 | The
Loner by Ester Wier |
1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in
Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Honor Books:
 |
Thistle
and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas,
pseud. (Leclaire Alger) |
 | Men
of Athens by Olivia Coolidge |
1962 Medal Winner: The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor Books:
 |
Frontier
Living by Edwin Tunis |
 | The
Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
 | Belling
The Tiger by Mary Stolz |
1961 Medal Winner: Island of the
Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Honor Books:
 |
America
Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson |
 | Old
Ramon by Jack Schaefer |
 | The
Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson) |
1960 Medal Winner: Onion John
by Joseph Krumgold
Honor Books:
 |
My
Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George |
 | America
Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson |
 | The
Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall |
1959 Medal Winner: The Witch of
Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor Books:
 |
The
Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson |
 | Along
Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong |
 | Chucaro:
Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay |
 | The
Perilous Road by William O. Steele |
1958 Medal Winner: Rifles for
Watie by Harold Keith
Honor Books:
 |
The
Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz |
 | Gone-Away
Lake by Elizabeth Enright |
 | The
Great Wheel by Robert Lawso |
 | Tom
Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko |
1957 Medal Winner: Miracles on
Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
Honor Books:
 |
Old
Yeller by Fred Gipson |
 | The
House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong |
 | Mr.
Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson |
 | The
Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads |
 | Black
Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli |
1956 Medal Winner: Carry On, Mr.
Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Honor Books:
 |
The
Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
 | The
Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist |
 | Men,
Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen |
1955 Medal Winner: The Wheel on
the School by Meindert DeJong
Honor Books:
 |
Courage
of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh |
 | Banner
In The Sky by James Ullman |
1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguel by
Joseph Krumgold
Honor Books:
 |
All
Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop |
 | Shadrach
by Meindert Dejong |
 | Hurry
Home, Candy by Meindert Dejon |
 | Theodore
Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson |
 | Magic
Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff |
1953 Medal Winner: Secret of the Andes by
Ann Nolan Clark
Honor Books:
 |
Charlotte's
Web by E. B. White |
 | Moccasin
Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
 | Red
Sails to Capri by Ann Weil |
 | The
Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh |
 | Birthdays
of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster |
1952 Medal Winner: Ginger Pye
by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
Honor Books:
 |
Americans
Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity |
 | Minn
of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling |
 | The
Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff |
 | The
Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer |
 | The
Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff |
1951 Medal Winner: Amos Fortune,
Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Honor Books:
 |
Better
Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt |
 | Gandhi,
Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton |
 | Abraham
Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson |
 | The
Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish |
1950 Medal Winner: The Door in the Wall
by Marguerite de Angeli
Honor Books:
 |
Tree
of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill |
 | The
Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz |
 | Kildee
House by Rutherford Montgomery |
 | George
Washington by Genevieve Foster |
 | Song
of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion
Havighurst |
1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind by
Marguerite Henry
Honor Books:
 |
Seabird
by Holling C. Holling |
 | Daughter
of the Mountain by Louise Rankin |
 | My
Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett |
 | Story
of the Negro by Arna Bontemps |
1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One
Balloons by William Pène du Bois
Honor Books:
 |
Pancakes-Paris
by Claire Huchet Bishop |
 | Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger |
 | The
Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman |
 | The
Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander |
 | Misty
of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry |
1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory by
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Honor Books:
 |
Wonderful
Year by Nancy Barnes |
 | Big
Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff |
 | The
Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell |
 | The
Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) |
 | The
Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett |
1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry
Girl by Lois Lenski
Honor Books:
 |
Justin
Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry |
 | The
Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means |
 | Bhimsa,
the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston |
 | New
Found World by Katherine Shippen |
1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill by Robert
Lawson
Honor Books:
 |
The
Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes |
 | The
Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh |
 | Abraham
Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster |
 | Lone
Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton |
1944 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremain by
Esther Forbes
Honor Books:
 |
These
Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
 | Fog
Magic by Julia Sauer |
 | Rufus
M. by Eleanor Estes |
Mountain
Born by Elizabeth Yates
1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the
Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Honor Books:
 |
The
Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes |
 | Have
You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt |
1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun by
Walter Edmonds
Honor Books:
 |
Little
Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
 | George
Washington's World by Genevieve Foster |
 | Indian
Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski |
 | Down
Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin |
1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courage by
Armstrong Sperry
Honor Books:
 |
Blue
Willow by Doris Gates |
 | Young
Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr |
 | The
Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
 | Nansen
by Anna Gertrude Hall |
1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Boone by James
Daugherty
Honor Books:
 |
The
Singing Tree by Kate Seredy |
 | Runner
of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson |
 | By
the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
 | Boy
with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader |
1939 Medal Winner: Thimble Summer
by Elizabeth Enright
Honor Books:
 |
Nino
by Valenti Angel |
 | Mr.
Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater |
 | Hello
the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford |
 | Leader
By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton |
 | Penn
by Elizabeth Janet Gray |
1938 Medal Winner: The White Stag
by Kate Seredy
Honor Books:
 |
Pecos
Bill by James Cloyd Bowman |
 | Bright
Island by Mabel Robinson |
 | On
the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
1937 Medal Winner: Roller Skates
by Ruth Sawyer
Honor Books:
 |
Phoebe
Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski |
 | Whistler's
Van by Idwal Jones |
 | The
Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans |
 | Winterbound
by Margery Bianco |
 | The
Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes |
 | Audubon
by Constance Rourke |
1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawn by
Carol Ryrie Brink
Honor Books:
 |
Honk,
the Moose by Phil Stong |
 | The
Good Master by Kate Seredy |
 | Young
Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray |
 | All
Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry |
1935 Medal Winner: Dobry
by Monica Shannon
Honor Books:
 |
Pageant
of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger |
 | Davy
Crockett by Constance Rourke |
 | Day
On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum |
1934 Medal Winner: Invincible
Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
Honor Books:
 |
The
Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker |
 | Swords
of Steel by Elsie Singmaster |
 | ABC
Bunny by Wanda Gág |
 | Winged
Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) |
 | New
Land by Sarah Schmidt |
 | Big
Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum |
 | Glory
of the Seas by Agnes Hewes |
 | Apprentice
of Florence by Ann Kyle |
1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of
the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
Honor Books:
 |
Swift
Rivers by Cornelia Meigs |
 | The
Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift |
 | Children
of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglo |
1932 Medal Winner: Waterless Mountain by
Laura Adams Armer
Honor Books:
 |
The
Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop |
 | Calico
Bush by Rachel Field |
 | Boy
of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens |
 | Out
of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery |
 | Jane's
Island by Marjorie Allee |
 | Truce
of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis |
 | Ood-Le-Uk
the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen |
1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who
Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Honor Books:
 |
Floating
Island by Anne Parrish |
 | The
Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus |
 | Queer
Person by Ralph Hubbard |
 | Mountains
are Free by Julie Davis Adams |
 | Spice
and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes |
 | Meggy
MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray |
 | Garram
the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best |
1930 Medal Winner: Hitty, Her
First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Honor Books:
 |
A
Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton |
 | Pran
of Albania by Elizabeth Miller |
 | Jumping-Off
Place by Marion Hurd McNeely |
 | The
Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young |
 | Vaino
by Julia Davis Adams |
 | Little
Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift |
1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter
of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Honor Books:
 |
Pigtail
of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett |
 | Millions
of Cats | |