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2005: Kira-Kira (Newbery Medal Book), Cynthia Kadohata
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread, Kate DiCamillo
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi
2002: A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park
2001: A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck
2000: Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery Medal Winner, 2000), Christopher Paul Curtis
1999: Holes, Louis Sachar
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
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman, illustrated by Eric Beddows
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman
1987: The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman, illustrated by Peter Sis
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
1985: The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
1983: Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt
1982: A Visit to William Blanke's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, Nancy Willard, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
1981: Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson
1980: A Gathering of Days, Joan W. Blos
1979: The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
1978: Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Donna Diamond
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
1976: The Grey King, Susan Cooper, illustrated by Michael Heslop
1975: M.C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton
1974: The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox, illustrated by Eros Keith
1973: Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George, illustrated by John Schoenherr
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien, illustrated by Zena Bernstein
1971: Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars, illustrated by Ted CoConis
1970: Sounder, William H. Armstrong, illustrated by James Barkley
1969: The High King, Lloyd Alexander
1968: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
1967: Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt
1966: I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1965: Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska, illustrated by Alvin Smith
1964: It's Like This, Cat, Emily Cheney Neville, illustrated by Emil Weiss
1963: A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L' Engle
1962: The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell
1960: Onion John, Joseph Krumgold, illustrated by Symeon Shimin
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
1958: Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith, illustrated by Peter Burchard
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Sorensen, illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham, illustrated by J.O. Cosgrove
1955: The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
1954: ...And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold, illustrated by Jean Charlot
1953: Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark, illustrated by Jean Charlot
1952: Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates, illustrated by Nora S. Unwin
1950: The Door in the Wall: Story of Medieval London, Marguerite de Angeli
1949: King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pe'ne du Bois
1947: Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannet
1946: Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski
1945: Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson
1944: Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes, illustrated by Lynd Ward
1943: Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray, illustrated by Robert Lawson
1942: The Matchlock Gun, Walter D. Edmonds, illustrated by Paul Lantz
1941: Call It Courage, Armstrong Sperry
1940: Daniel Boone, James Daugherty
1939: Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright
1938: The White Stag, Kate Seredy
1937: Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Valenti Angelo
1936: Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink, illustrated by Kate Seredy
1935: Dobry, Monica Shannon, illustrated by Atanas Katchamakoff
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women, Cornelia L. Meigs
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, illustrated by Kurt Wiese
1932: Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer, illustrated by Sydney and Laura Adams Armer
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Coatsworth, illustrated by Lynd Ward
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly, illustrated by Angela Pruszynska
1928: Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse, Will James
1926: Shen of the Sea, Arthur Bowie Chrisman, illustrated by Else Hasselriis
1925: Tales from Silver Lands, Charles Joseph Finger, illustrated by Paul Honore
1924: The Dark Frigate, Charles Boardman Hawes, illustrated by A.L. Ripley
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting
1922: The Story of Mankind, Henrik Willem Van Loon