2009 Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; illustrated by by Dave McKean

Honor Books:

• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small 
• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
• Savvy by Ingrid Law 
• After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2008 Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

Honor Books:

• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

2007 Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron; illustrated by Matt Phelan

Honor Books:

• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm.  Read an Education Oasis review of the book »
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson. Read an Education Oasis review of the book »
• Rules by Cynthia Lord 

2006 Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Honor Books:

• Whittington by Alan Armstrong; illustrated by S.D. Schindler 
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti 
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale 
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Hudson Talbott

2005 Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Honor Books:

• 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 
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
  by Jim Murphy

• 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 Ann M. Martin
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
• Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
  

• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

• Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

• 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

• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

• Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
• Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
  

• Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
  

• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

• In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

• After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

• 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

• Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

• 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

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

• The Fledgling by Jane Langton
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

• The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian

• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

• Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
• Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

• Abel's Island by William Steig
• A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

• Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
• Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

• 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

• Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
• Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

• 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

• To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
• When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  

• 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

• 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
  

• The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
• The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
• The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
  

• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
  

• Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
• The Loner by Ester Wier
  

• Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseudonym: Leclaire Alger
• Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

• Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz

• America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
• Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
• The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseudonym; George Thompson

• 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

• 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

• The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
• Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
• The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
• Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

• 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

• The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
• Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
  

• Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
• Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

• All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
• Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
• Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong
• Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
• Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff

• 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
  

• 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

• 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

• 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 and
  Marion Havighurst
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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, pseudonym
• The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

• 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
  

• 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
  

• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
• Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
• Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

• The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
• Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Nino by Valenti Angelo
• 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

• Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
• Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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

• The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
• Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
• ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
• Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseudonym (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
  

• 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 Burglon

• 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

• 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
• Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen

• 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

• Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
• The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
• Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
• Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
• Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

• The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
• Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

• None

• The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

• Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
• The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

• None

• None

• The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
• Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
• The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by
  William Bowen
• The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
• The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs