| Titles | Order |
| The Little Fishes by Erik Christian Haugaard | Fiction, 1967 |
| London Bridge is Falling Down by Peter Spier | Picture Book, 1967 |
| The Spring Rider by John Lawson | Fiction, 1968 |
| Dark venture by Audrey White Beyer | Honor, Fiction, 1968 |
| The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig | Honor, Fiction, 1968 |
| Smith by Leon Garfield | Honor, Fiction, 1968 |
| Young Mark by Edith M. Almedingen | Honor, Fiction, 1968 |
| Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel | Picture Book, 1968 |
| All in free but Janey by Elizabeth Johnson | Honor, Picture Book, 1968 |
| Gilgamesh by Bernarda Bryson | Honor, Picture Book, 1968 |
| Jorinda and Joringel by Jacob Grimm | Honor, Picture Book, 1968 |
| Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins | Honor, Picture Book, 1968 |
| A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin | Fiction, 1969 |
| Flambards by K. M. Peyton | Honor, Fiction, 1969 |
| The Pigman by Paul Zindel | Honor, Fiction, 1969 |
| Turi's poppa by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino | Honor, Fiction, 1969 |
| Adventures of Paddy Pork by John S. Goodall | Picture Book, 1969 |
| Monkey in the Jungle by Edna Mitchell Preston | Honor, Picture Book, 1969 |
| New Moon Cove by Ann Atwood | Honor, Picture Book, 1969 |
| Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle | Honor, Picture Book, 1969 |
| The Intruder by John Rowe Townsend | Fiction, 1970 |
| Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver | Honor, Fiction, 1970 |
| Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats | Picture Book, 1970 |
| A Story, a Story by Gail E. Haley | Honor, Picture Book, 1970 |
| A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor Cameron | Fiction, 1971 |
| Come by Here by Olivia E. Coolidge | Honor, Fiction, 1971 |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien | Honor, Fiction, 1971 |
| Thomas by Hester Burton | Honor, Fiction, 1971 |
| If I Built a Village by Kazue Mizumura | Picture Book, 1971 |
| The Angry Moon by William Sleator | Honor, Picture Book, 1971 |
| A Firefly Named Torchy by Bernard Waber | Honor, Picture Book, 1971 |
| If All The Seas Were One Sea by Janina Domanska | Honor, Picture Book, 1971 |
| Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff | Fiction, 1972 |
| Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham | Picture Book, 1972 |
| The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper | Fiction, 1973 |
| The Cat Who Wished to be a Man by Lloyd Alexander | Honor, Fiction, 1973 |
| An Island in a Green Sea by Mabel Esther Allan | Honor, Fiction, 1973 |
| No Way of Telling by Emma Smith | Honor, Fiction, 1973 |
| King Stork by Howard Pyle | Picture Book, 1973 |
| The Magic Tree: A Tale from the Congo by Gerald McDermott | Honor, Picture Book, 1973 |
| The Silver Pony by Lynd Ward | Honor, Picture Book, 1973 |
| Who, Said Sue, Said Whoo? by Ellen Raskin | Honor, Picture Book, 1973 |
| M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton | Fiction, 1974 |
| And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz | Honor, Fiction, 1974 |
| The Summer After the Funeral by Jane Gardam | Honor, Fiction, 1974 |
| Tough Chauncey by Doris Buchanan Smith | Honor, Fiction, 1974 |
| Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Muriel Feelings | Picture Book, 1974 |
| All Butterflies: An ABC by Marcia Brown | Honor, Picture Book, 1974 |
| Herman the Helper by Robert Kraus | Honor, Picture Book, 1974 |
| A Prairie Boy's Winter by William Kurelek | Honor, Picture Book, 1974 |
| Transport 7-41-R by Terry Degens | Fiction, 1975 |
| The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis | Honor, Fiction, 1975 |
| Anno's Alphabet by Mitsumasa Anno | Picture Book, 1975 |
| The Bear's Bicycle by Emilie Warren McLeod | Honor, Picture Book, 1975 |
| Scram, Kid! by Ann McGovern | Honor, Picture Book, 1975 |
| She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl by Eloise Greenfield | Honor, Picture Book, 1975 |
| Unleaving by Jill Paton Walsh | Fiction, 1976 |
| Dragonwings by Laurence Yep | Honor, Fiction, 1976 |
| A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter | Honor, Fiction, 1976 |
| A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond | Honor, Fiction, 1976 |
| Thirteen by Remy Charlip | Picture Book, 1976 |
| Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1976 |
| Pyramid by David Macaulay | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1976 |
| Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? by Jean Fritz | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1976 |
| The Desert Is Theirs by Byrd Baylor | Honor, Picture Book, 1976 |
| Six Little Ducks by Chris Conover | Honor, Picture Book, 1976 |
| Song of the Boat by Lorenz B. Graham | Honor, Picture Book, 1976 |
| Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep | Fiction, 1977 |
| Blood Feud by Rosemary Sutcliff | Honor, Fiction, 1977 |
| The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall | Honor, Fiction, 1977 |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor | Honor, Fiction, 1977 |
| Chance, Luck, and Destiny by Peter Dickinson | Non-Fiction, 1977 |
| The Colonial Cookbook by Lucille Recht Penner | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1977 |
| From Slave to Abolitionist by Lucille Schulberg Warner | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1977 |
| Watching the wild apes : the primate studies of Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas by Kevles | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1977 |
| Granfa' Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason by Wallace Tripp | Picture Book, 1977 |
| The Amazing Bone by William Steig | Honor, Picture Book, 1977 |
| Anno's Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno | Honor, Picture Book, 1977 |
| Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove | Honor, Picture Book, 1977 |
| The changing city by Jörg Müller | Special Citation, 1977 |
| The changing countryside by Jörg Müller | Special Citation, 1977 |
| The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin | Fiction, 1978 |
| Alan and Naomi by Myron Levoy | Honor, Fiction, 1978 |
| Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater | Honor, Fiction, 1978 |
| Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary | Honor, Fiction, 1978 |
| Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany by Ilse Koehn | Non-Fiction, 1978 |
| Castle by David Macaulay | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1978 |
| Settlers and Strangers: Native Americans of the Desert Southwest and History As They Saw It by Betty Baker | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1978 |
| Anno's Journey by Mitsumasa Anno | Picture Book, 1978 |
| On to Widecombe Fair by Patricia Lee Gauch | Honor, Picture Book, 1978 |
| The Story of Edward by Philippe Dumas | Honor, Picture Book, 1978 |
| What do you feed your donkey on?: Rhymes from a Belfast childhood by Colette O'Hare | Honor, Picture Book, 1978 |
| Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman | Fiction, 1979 |
| All Together Now by Sue Ellen Bridgers | Honor, Fiction, 1979 |
| Silas and Ben-Godik by Cecil Bødker | Honor, Fiction, 1979 |
| The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope by David Kherdian | Non-Fiction, 1979 |
| The Iron Road: A Portrait of American Railroading by Richard F. Snow | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1979 |
| Self Portrait: Margot Zemach by Margot Zemach | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1979 |
| The Story of American Photography: An Illustrated History for Young People by Martin W. Sandler | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1979 |
| The Snowman by Raymond Briggs | Picture Book, 1979 |
| Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora | Honor, Picture Book, 1979 |
| Cross-Country Cat by Mary Calhoun | Honor, Picture Book, 1979 |
| Conrad's War by Andrew Davies | Fiction, 1980 |
| The Alfred Summer by Jan Slepian | Honor, Fiction, 1980 |
| Me and My Million by Clive King | Honor, Fiction, 1980 |
| The Night Swimmers by Betsy Byars | Honor, Fiction, 1980 |
| Building: The Fight Against Gravity by Mario Salvadori | Non-Fiction, 1980 |
| Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1980 |
| How the Forest Grew by William Jaspersohn | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1980 |
| Stonewall by Jean Fritz | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1980 |
| The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg | Picture Book, 1980 |
| The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang | Honor, Picture Book, 1980 |
| Why the Tides Ebb and Flow by Joan Chase Bowden | Honor, Picture Book, 1980 |
| Graham Oakleys Magical Changes by Graham Oakley | Special Citation, 1980 |
| The Leaving by Lynn Hall | Fiction, 1981 |
| Flight of the Sparrow by Julia Cunningham | Honor, Fiction, 1981 |
| Ida Early Comes over the Mountain by Robert Burch | Honor, Fiction, 1981 |
| John Diamond by Leon Garfield | Honor, Fiction, 1981 |
| The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn Lasky | Non-Fiction, 1981 |
| The Hospital Book by James Howe | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1981 |
| Junk Food, Fast Food, Health Food: What Americans Eat and Why by Lila Perl | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1981 |
| You can't be timid with a trumpet : notes from the orchestra by Stan Skardinski | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1981 |
| Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak | Picture Book, 1981 |
| Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg | Honor, Picture Book, 1981 |
| On Market Street by Arnold Lobel | Honor, Picture Book, 1981 |
| Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker | Honor, Picture Book, 1981 |
| Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park | Fiction, 1982 |
| Ask Me No Questions by Ann Schlee | Honor, Fiction, 1982 |
| The Scarecrows by Robert Westall | Honor, Fiction, 1982 |
| The Voyage Begun by Nancy Bond | Honor, Fiction, 1982 |
| Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal | Non-Fiction, 1982 |
| Dinosaurs of North America by Helen Roney Sattler | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1982 |
| Lobo of the Tasaday by John Nance | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1982 |
| A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard | Picture Book, 1982 |
| The Friendly Beasts, an old English Christmas Carol by Tomie DePaola | Honor, Picture Book, 1982 |
| Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton | Fiction, 1983 |
| Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt | Honor, Fiction, 1983 |
| Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz | Honor, Fiction, 1983 |
| The Road to Camlann: The Death of King Arthur by Rosemary Sutcliff | Honor, Fiction, 1983 |
| Behind Barbed Wire: Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. Davis | Non-Fiction, 1983 |
| Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1983 |
| The Jewish Americans: A History in Their Own Words 1650-1950 by Milton Meltzer | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1983 |
| A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams | Picture Book, 1983 |
| Doctor De Soto by William Steig | Honor, Picture Book, 1983 |
| Friends by Helme Heine | Honor, Picture Book, 1983 |
| Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie | Honor, Picture Book, 1983 |
| A Little Fear by Patricia Wrightson | Fiction, 1984 |
| Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones | Honor, Fiction, 1984 |
| A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt | Honor, Fiction, 1984 |
| Unclaimed Treasures by Patricia MacLachlan | Honor, Fiction, 1984 |
| The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz | Non-Fiction, 1984 |
| Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1984 |
| Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World by Polly Schoyer Brooks | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1984 |
| The Tipi by David Yue | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1984 |
| Jonah and the Great Fish by Warwick Hutton | Picture Book, 1984 |
| Dawn by Molly Bang | Honor, Picture Book, 1984 |
| The Guinea Pig ABC by Kate Duke | Honor, Picture Book, 1984 |
| The Rose in My Garden by Arnold Lobel | Honor, Picture Book, 1984 |
| The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks | Fiction, 1985 |
| Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith | Honor, Fiction, 1985 |
| The Changeover by Margaret Mahy | Honor, Fiction, 1985 |
| Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg | Non-Fiction, 1985 |
| Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1985 |
| Mama Don't Allow by Thacher Hurd | Picture Book, 1985 |
| How Much Is a Million? by David M. Schwartz | Honor, Picture Book, 1985 |
| Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes | Honor, Picture Book, 1985 |
| The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg | Honor, Picture Book, 1985 |
| 1, 2, 3 Board Book by Tana Hoban | Special Citation, 1985 |
| In Summer Light by Zibby Oneal | Fiction, 1986 |
| Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones | Honor, Fiction, 1986 |
| Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad | Honor, Fiction, 1986 |
| Auks, rocks, and the odd dinosaur : inside stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History by Peggy Thomson | Non-Fiction, 1986 |
| Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America by Brent K. Ashabranner | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1986 |
| The truth about Santa Claus by James Cross Giblin | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1986 |
| The Paper Crane by Molly Bang | Picture Book, 1986 |
| Gorilla by Anthony Browne | Honor, Picture Book, 1986 |
| The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg | Honor, Picture Book, 1986 |
| The Trek by Ann Jonas | Honor, Picture Book, 1986 |
| Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry | Fiction, 1987 |
| Georgia Music by Helen V. Griffith | Honor, Fiction, 1987 |
| Isaac Campion by Janni Howker | Honor, Fiction, 1987 |
| The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall | Non-Fiction, 1987 |
| Being Born by Sheila Kitzinger | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1987 |
| The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1987 |
| Steamboat in a Cornfield by John Hartford | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1987 |
| Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe | Picture Book, 1987 |
| Cherries and Cherry Pits by Vera B. Williams | Honor, Picture Book, 1987 |
| In Coal Country by Judith Hendershot | Honor, Picture Book, 1987 |
| Old Henry by Joan W. Blos | Honor, Picture Book, 1987 |
| The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor | Fiction, 1988 |
| Granny Was a Buffer Girl by Berlie Doherty | Honor, Fiction, 1988 |
| Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman | Honor, Fiction, 1988 |
| Memory by Margaret Mahy | Honor, Fiction, 1988 |
| Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton | Non-Fiction, 1988 |
| African Journey by John Chiasson | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1988 |
| Little by Little: A Writer's Education by Jean Little | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1988 |
| The Boy of the Three-Year Nap by Dianne Snyder | Picture Book, 1988 |
| Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea by Vera B. Williams | Honor, Picture Book, 1988 |
| Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker | Honour, 1988 |
| The Village by the Sea by Paula Fox | Fiction, 1989 |
| Eva by Peter Dickinson | Honor, Fiction, 1989 |
| Gideon Ahoy! by William Mayne | Honor, Fiction, 1989 |
| The Way Things Work by David Macaulay | Non-Fiction, 1989 |
| The Rainbow People by Laurence Yep | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1989 |
| Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish (A Borzoi book) by Philip M. Isaacson | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1989 |
| Shy Charles by Rosemary Wells | Picture Book, 1989 |
| Island Boy by Barbara Cooney | Honor, Picture Book, 1989 |
| The Nativity by Julie Vivas | Honor, Picture Book, 1989 |
| Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli | Fiction, 1990 |
| Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman | Honor, Fiction, 1990 |
| Stonewords: A Ghost Story by Pam Conrad | Honor, Fiction, 1990 |
| The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz | Non-Fiction, 1990 |
| Insect Metamorphosis: From Egg to Adult by Nancy Goor | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1990 |
| Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young | Picture Book, 1990 |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Jr. Martin | Honor, Picture Book, 1990 |
| Valentine and Orson by Nancy Ekholm Burkert | Honor, Picture Book, 1990 |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi | Fiction, 1991 |
| Judy Scuppernong by Brenda Seabrooke | Honor, Fiction, 1991 |
| Paradise Cafe and Other Stories by Martha Brooks | Honor, Fiction, 1991 |
| Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Cynthia Rylant | Non-Fiction, 1991 |
| Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England by Diane Stanley | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1991 |
| The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1991 |
| The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson | Picture Book, 1991 |
| Aardvarks, Disembark! by Ann Jonas | Honor, Picture Book, 1991 |
| Sophie and Lou by Petra Mathers | Honor, Picture Book, 1991 |
| Missing May by Cynthia Rylant | Fiction, 1992 |
| Nothing but the Truth: A Play by Ronn Smith | Honor, Fiction, 1992 |
| Somewhere In The Darkness by Walter Dean Myers | Honor, Fiction, 1992 |
| Talking With Artists: Volume 1 by Pat Cummings | Non-Fiction, 1992 |
| The Handmade Alphabet by Laura Rankin | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1992 |
| Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1992 |
| Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young | Picture Book, 1992 |
| In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming | Honor, Picture Book, 1992 |
| Ajeemah and His Son (Willa Perlman Books) by James Berry | Fiction, 1993 |
| The Giver by Lois Lowry | Honor, Fiction, 1993 |
| Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. Mckissack | Non-Fiction, 1993 |
| Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1993 |
| The Fortune-Tellers by Lloyd Alexander | Picture Book, 1993 |
| Komodo! by Peter Sis | Honor, Picture Book, 1993 |
| Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott | Honor, Picture Book, 1993 |
| Scooter by Vera B. Williams | Fiction, 1994 |
| Flour Babies by Anne Fine | Honor, Fiction, 1994 |
| Western Wind by Paula Fox | Honor, Fiction, 1994 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman | Non-Fiction, 1994 |
| A Tree Place: And Other Poems by Constance Levy | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1994 |
| Unconditional Surrender: U. S. Grant and the Civil War by Albert Marrin | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1994 |
| Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say | Picture Book, 1994 |
| Owen by Kevin Henkes | Honor, Picture Book, 1994 |
| A Small Tall Tale From The Far Far North by Peter Sis | Honor, Picture Book, 1994 |
| Some of the Kinder Planets by Tim Wynne-Jones | Fiction, 1995 |
| Earthshine by Theresa Nelson | Honor, Fiction, 1995 |
| Jericho by Janet Hickman | Honor, Fiction, 1995 |
| Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober | Non-Fiction, 1995 |
| The Great Fire by Jim Murphy | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1995 |
| It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library) by Robie H. Harris | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1995 |
| John Henry by Julius Lester | Picture Book, 1995 |
| Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs | Honor, Picture Book, 1995 |
| Poppy by Avi | Fiction, 1996 |
| Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White | Honor, Fiction, 1996 |
| The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw | Honor, Fiction, 1996 |
| Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story by Andrea Warren | Non-Fiction, 1996 |
| The Boy Who Lived with the Bears: And Other Iroquois Stories (Parabola Storytime series) by Joseph Bruchac | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1996 |
| Haystack by Bonnie Geisert | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1996 |
| In the Rain with Baby Duck by Amy Hest | Picture Book, 1996 |
| Fanny's Dream by Caralyn Buehner | Honor, Picture Book, 1996 |
| Home Lovely by Lynne Rae Perkins | Honor, Picture Book, 1996 |
| The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto | Fiction, 1997 |
| Harlem by Walter Dean Myers | Honor, Fiction, 1997 |
| Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff | Honor, Fiction, 1997 |
| A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick | Non-Fiction, 1997 |
| Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1997 |
| Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David A. Adler | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1997 |
| The Adventures Of Sparrowboy by Brian Pinkney | Picture Book, 1997 |
| Home on the Bayou by G. Brian Karas | Honor, Picture Book, 1997 |
| Potato: A Tale From The Great Depression by Kate Lied | Honor, Picture Book, 1997 |
| The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez | Fiction, 1998 |
| My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt | Honor, Fiction, 1998 |
| While No One Was Watching by Jane Leslie Conly | Honor, Fiction, 1998 |
| Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage | Non-Fiction, 1998 |
| Chuck Close: Up Close by Jan Greenberg | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1998 |
| Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life by Russell Freedman | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1998 |
| And If the Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks | Picture Book, 1998 |
| Popcorn: Poems by James Stevenson | Honor, Picture Book, 1998 |
| Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne | Honor, Picture Book, 1998 |
| Holes by Louis Sachar | Fiction, 1999 |
| Monster by Walter Dean Myers | Honor, Fiction, 1999 |
| The Trolls by Polly Horvath | Honor, Fiction, 1999 |
| The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins | Non-Fiction, 1999 |
| Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1999 |
| William Shakespeare & the Globe by Aliki | Honor, Non-Fiction, 1999 |
| Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley | Picture Book, 1999 |
| Dance! With Bill T. Jones by Bill T. Jones | Honor, Picture Book, 1999 |
| The Owl and the Pussycat [Marshall] by Edward Lear | Honor, Picture Book, 1999 |
| Tibet: Through the Red Box by Peter Sís | Special Citation, 1999 |
| The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley | Fiction, 2000 |
| 145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers | Honor, Fiction, 2000 |
| King of Shadows by Susan Cooper | Honor, Fiction, 2000 |
| Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson | Non-Fiction, 2000 |
| Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter by Alan Govenar | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2000 |
| Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2000 |
| Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson | Picture Book, 2000 |
| Buttons by Brock Cole | Honor, Picture Book, 2000 |
| A Day, A Dog by Gabrielle Vincent | Honor, Picture Book, 2000 |
| Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson | Fiction and Poetry, 2001 |
| Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2001 |
| Troy by Adèle Geras | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2001 |
| The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash | Non-Fiction, 2001 |
| Rocks in His Head by Carol Otis Hurst | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2001 |
| Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa by Don Brown | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2001 |
| Cold Feet by Cynthia DeFelice | Picture Book, 2001 |
| Five Creatures by Emily Jenkins | Honor, Picture Book, 2001 |
| The Stray Dog by Marc Simont | Honor, Picture Book, 2001 |
| Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury | Fiction and Poetry, 2002 |
| Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. Williams | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2002 |
| Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2002 |
| This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards) by Elizabeth Partridge | Non-Fiction, 2002 |
| Handel, Who Knew What He Liked by M. T. Anderson | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2002 |
| Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People by Bonnie Christensen | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2002 |
| "Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate by Bob Graham | Picture Book, 2002 |
| Little Rat Sets Sail by Monika Bang-Campbell | Honor, Picture Book, 2002 |
| I Stink! by Kate McMullan | Honor, Picture Book, 2002 |
| The Jamie and Angus Stories by Anne Fine | Fiction and Poetry, 2003 |
| Feed by M. T. Anderson | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2003 |
| Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2003 |
| Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2003 |
| To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers by Wendie C. Old | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2003 |
| Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman | Non-Fiction, 2003 |
| Big Momma Makes the World by Phyllis Root | Picture Book, 2003 |
| Blues Journey by Walter Dean Myers | Honor, Picture Book, 2003 |
| Dahlia by Barbara McClintock | Honor, Picture Book, 2003 |
| The Fire-Eaters by David Almond | Fiction, 2004 |
| The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2004 |
| God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2004 |
| An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book) by Jim Murphy | Non-Fiction, 2004 |
| The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon by Bea Uusma Schyffert | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2004 |
| Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2004 |
| The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein | Picture Book, 2004 |
| The Shape Game by Anthony Browne | Honor, Picture Book, 2004 |
| Snow Music by Lynne Rae Perkins | Honor, Picture Book, 2004 |
| The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman | Fiction, 2005 |
| Kalpana's Dream by Judith Clarke | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2005 |
| The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip M. Hoose | Non-Fiction, 2005 |
| Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2005 |
| Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2005 |
| Traction Man is Here! by Mini Grey | Picture Book, 2005 |
| The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster | Honor, Picture Book, 2005 |
| That New Animal by Emily Jenkins | Honor, Picture Book, 2005 |
| A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson | Honor, 2005 |
| The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo | Fiction and Poetry, 2006 |
| Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)) by Julie Larios | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2006 |
| Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2006 |
| If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty | Non-Fiction, 2006 |
| A Mother's Journey by Sandra Markle | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2006 |
| Wildfire by Taylor Morrison | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2006 |
| Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert | Picture Book, 2006 |
| MAMA: a TRUE story, in which a BABY HIPPO loses his MAMA during a TSUNAMI, but finds a new home, and a new MAMA by Jeanette Winter | Honor, Picture Book, 2006 |
| Sky Boys by Deborah Hopkinson | Honor, Picture Book, 2006 |
| The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson | Fiction and Poetry, 2007 |
| Clementine by Sara Pennypacker | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2007 |
| Rex Zero and the End of the World by Tim Wynne-Jones | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2007 |
| The Strongest Man in the World by Louis Cyrus | Non-Fiction, 2007 |
| Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2007 |
| Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Griffin Burns | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2007 |
| Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories by Laura Vaccaro Seeger | Picture Book, 2007 |
| 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental | Honor, Picture Book, 2007 |
| Wolves by Emily Gravett | Honor, Picture Book, 2007 |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie | Fiction and Poetry, 2008 |
| Savvy by Ingrid Law | Honor, Fiction, 2008 |
| Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2008 |
| The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis | Non-Fiction, 2008 |
| Frogs by Nic Bishop | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2008 |
| What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! by Barbara Kerley | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2008 |
| At Night by Jonathan Bean | Picture Book, 2008 |
| A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee | Honor, Picture Book, 2008 |
| Fred Stays with Me! by Nancy Coffelt | Honor, Picture Book, 2008 |
| The Arrival by Shaun Tan | Special Citation, 2008 |
| Nation by Terry Pratchett | Fiction and Poetry, 2009 |
| The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2009 |
| The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2009 |
| The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming | Non-Fiction, 2009 |
| Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2009 |
| The Way We Work by David Macaulay | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2009 |
| Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy | Picture Book, 2009 |
| Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli | Honor, Picture Book, 2009 |
| Old Bear by Kevin Henkes | Picture book, Honor, 2009 |
| When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead | Fiction, 2010 |
| A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2010 |
| The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan | Honor, Fiction and Poetry, 2010 |
| Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge | Non-Fiction, 2010 |
| Anne Frank: Her life in words and pictures from the archives of The Anne Frank House by Menno Metselaar | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2010 |
| Smile by Raina Telgemeier | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2010 |
| I Know Here by Laurel Croza | Picture Book, 2010 |
| It's a Secret by John Burningham | Honor, Picture Book, 2010 |
| The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney | Honor, Picture Book, 2010 |
| Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones | Fiction, 2011 |
| Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke | Honor, Fiction, 2011 |
| Chime by Franny Billingsley | Honor, Fiction, 2011 |
| The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin | Non-Fiction, 2011 |
| Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2011 |
| Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2011 |
| Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Salley Mavor | Picture Book, 2011 |
| Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman | Honor, Picture Book, 2011 |
| Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson | Honor, Picture Book, 2011 |
| No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson | Fiction, 2012 |
| Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein | Honor, Fiction, 2012 |
| Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet | Honor, Fiction, 2012 |
| Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck Close | Non-Fiction, 2012 |
| Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O'Keeffe Painted What She Pleased by Amy Novesky | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2012 |
| Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett | Picture Book, 2012 |
| And the Soldiers Sang by J. Patrick Lewis | Honor, Picture Book, 2012 |
| And Then It's Spring by Julie Fogliano | Honor, Picture Book, 2012 |
| Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell | Fiction, 2013 |
| A Corner of White: Book 1 of The Colors of Madeleine by Jaclyn Moriarty | Honor, Fiction, 2013 |
| Seraphina by Rachel Hartman | Honor, Fiction, 2013 |
| Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Awards)) by Robert Byrd | Non-Fiction, 2013 |
| Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2013 |
| Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Award - Author Winner Title(s)) by Andrea Pinkney | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2013 |
| Building Our House by Jonathan Bean | Picture Book, 2013 |
| Black Dog by Levi Pinfold | Honor, Picture Book, 2013 |
| Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier | Honor, Picture Book, 2013 |
| Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith | Fiction, 2014 |
| Boxers & Saints Boxed Set by Gene Luen Yang | Honor, Fiction, 2014 |
| Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein | Honor, Fiction, 2014 |
| The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin | Non-fiction, 2014 |
| The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest--and Most Surprising--Animals on Earth by Steve Jenkins | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2014 |
| Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2014 |
| Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown | Picture Book, 2014 |
| Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me by Daniel Beaty | Honor, Picture Book, 2014 |
| Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan | Honor, Picture Book, 2014 |
| The Girl Savage by Katherine Rundell | Fiction, 2015 |
| The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose | Honor, Fiction, 2015 |
| Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson | Honor, Fiction, 2015 |
| Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2015 |
| The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming | Non-Fiction, 2015 |
| Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire | Honor, Non-Fiction, 2015 |
| The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee | Picture Book, 2015 |
| It's Only Stanley by Jon Agee | Honor, Picture Book, 2015 |
| Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for All the Letters by Oliver Jeffers | Honor, Picture Book, 2015 |
| The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge | Fiction, 2016 |
| Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead | Honor, Fiction, 2016 |
| The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz | Honor, Fiction, 2016 |
| Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) by Steve Sheinkin | Nonfiction, 2016 |
| Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson | Honor, Nonfiction, 2016 |
| Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards)) by Carole Boston Weatherford | Honor, Nonfiction, 2016 |
| Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph by Roxane Orgill | Picture Book, 2016 |
| One Day, The End.: Short, Very Short, Shorter-Than-Ever Stories by Rebecca Kai Dotlich | Honor, Picture Book, 2016 |
| Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie | Honor, Picture Book, 2016 |
| The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Fiction & Poetry, 2017 |
| The Best Man by Richard Peck | Honor, Fiction & Poetry, 2017 |
| One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes | Honor, Fiction & Poetry, 2017 |
| Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman | Nonfiction, 2017 |
| Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet | Honor, Nonfiction, 2017 |
| Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin | Honor, Nonfiction, 2017 |
| Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) by Ashley Bryan | Picture Book, 2017 |
| Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz | Honor, Picture Book, 2017 |
| Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell | Honor, Picture Book, 2017 |
| The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater — not in English Common Knowledge | Honor, Nonfiction, 2018 |
| A Different Pond by Bao Phi — not in English Common Knowledge | Honor, Picture book, 2018 |
| The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez — not in English Common Knowledge | Honor, Fiction, 2018 |
| A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Seth Fishman — not in English Common Knowledge | Honor, Nonfiction, 2018 |
| The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson | Honor, Fiction, 2018 |
| Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, 2018 |
| The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction, 2018 |
| They Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki | Picture Book, Honor 2018 |
| When's My Birthday? by Julie Fogliano — not in English Common Knowledge | Honor, Picture Book, 2018 |
| The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke | Picture Book, 2019 |
| The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction and Poetry, 2019 |
| This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, 2019 |
| Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo | Fiction, Honor, 2020 |
| Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan | Nonfiction, 2020 |
| It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear | Nonfiction, Honor, 2020 |
| King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender | Fiction, 2020 |
| Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe | Picture Book, Honor, 2020 |
| Saturday by Oge Mora | Picture Book, 2020 |
| When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller | Fiction, Honor, 2020 |
