Winners, 1922-2003

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2003

• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi--Winner!

• Honor Books
  The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
  Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Gif
  Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
  A Corner of The Universe by Anne M. Martin
  Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
  

2002

• ASingle Shard by Linda Sue Park--Winner!

• Honor Books
  Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
  Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
  

2001

• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck--Winner!

• 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

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis--Winner!

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

1999

• Holes by Louis Sachar --Winner!

• Honor Book
  A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

1998

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse --Winner!

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

1997

• The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg --Winner!

• 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

• The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman --Winner!

• 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

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech --Winner!

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

1994

• The Giver by Lois Lowry --Winner!

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

1993

• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant --Winner!

• 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

• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor --Winner!

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

1991

• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli --Winner!

• Honor Book
  The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry --Winner!

• 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

• Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman --Winner!

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

1988

• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman --Winner!

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

1987

• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman --Winner!

• 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

• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan --Winner!

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

1985

• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley --Winner!

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

1984

• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary --Winner!

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

1983

• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt --Winner!

• Honor Books
  The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
  Doctor De Soto by William Steig
  Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
  Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
  Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982

• A Visit To William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard --Winner!

• 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

• Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson --Winner!

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

1980

• A Gathering Of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 by Joan Blos --Winner!

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

1979

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin --Winner!

• Honor Book
  The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson --Winner!

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

1977

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor --Winner!

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

1976

• The Grey King by Susan Cooper --Winner!

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

1975

• M.C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton --Winner!

• 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

• The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox --Winner!

• Honor Book
  The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

1973

• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George --Winner!

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

1972

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien --Winner!

• 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

• Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars --Winner!

• 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

• Sounder by William H. Armstrong --Winner!

• 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

• The High King by Lloyd Alexander --Winner!

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

1968

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg --Winner!

• 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

• Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt --Winner!

• 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

• I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borten de Trevino --Winner!

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

1965

• Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska --Winner!

• Honor Book
  Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964

• It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville --Winner!

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

1963

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle --Winner!

• Honor Books
  Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
  Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1962

• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare --Winner!

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

1961

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell --Winner!

• 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

• Onion John by Joseph Krumgold --Winner!

• 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

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare --Winner!

• 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

• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith --Winner!

• Honor Books
  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

1957

• Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson --Winner!

• 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

• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham --Winner!

• 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

• The Wheel on the School by Meindert Dejong --Winner!

• Honor Books
  Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
  Banner in the Sky by James Ullman

1954

• And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold --Winner!

• Honor Books
  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

1953

• Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark --Winner!

• 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

• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes --Winner!

• 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

• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates --Winner!

• 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

• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli --Winner!

• 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
  Sound of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst

1949

• King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry --Winner!

• 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

• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois --Winner!

• 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

• Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey --Winner!

• 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

• Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski --Winner!

• 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

• Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson --Winner!

• 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

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes --Winner!

• 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

• Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray --Winner!

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

1942

• The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds --Winner!

• 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

• Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry --Winner!

• 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

• Daniel Boone by James Daugherty --Winner!

• 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

• Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright --Winner!

• Honor Books
  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

1938

• The White Stag by Kate Seredy --Winner!

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

1937

• Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer --Winner!

• 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

• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink --Winner!

• 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

• Dobry by Monica Shannon --Winner!

• 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

• Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs --Winner!

• 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

• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis --Winner!

• 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 Burglon

1932

• Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer --Winner!

• 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

1931

• The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth --Winner!

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

1930

• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field --Winner!

• 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

• The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly --Winner!

• Honor Books
  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

1928

• Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji --Winner!

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

1927

• Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James --Winner!

1926

• Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman --Winner!

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

1925

• Tales From the Silver Lands by Charles Finger --Winner!

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

1924

• The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes --Winner!

1923

• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting --Winner!

1922

• The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon --Winner!

• Honor Books
  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