Titles | Order |
People Are Important by Eva Knox Evans | 1953 |
Stick-in-th-Mud by Jean Ketchum | 1954 |
Rainbow Round the World: A Story of UNICEF by Elizabeth Yates | 1955 |
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps | 1956 |
Blue Mystery by Margot Benary-Isbert | 1957 |
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele | 1958 |
Champions of Peace by Edith Patterson Meyer | 1960 |
What Then, Raman? by Shirley L. Arora | 1961 |
The Road to Agra by Aimée Sommerfelt | 1962 |
The monkey and the wild, wild wind by Ryerson Johnson | 1963 |
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy | 1964 |
Meeting With a Stranger by Duane Bradley | 1965 |
Berries Goodman by Emily Cheney Neville | 1966 |
Queenie Peavy by Robert Burch | 1967 |
The Little Fishes by Erik Christian Haugaard | 1968 |
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig | 1969 |
The Cay by Theodore Taylor | 1970 |
Jane Addams, Pioneer for Social Justice; A Biography, by Cornelia Meigs | 1971 |
The Tamarack Tree by Betty Underwood | 1972 |
The Riddle of racism by S. Carl Hirsch | 1973 |
Nilda by Nicholasa Mohr | 1974 |
The Princess and the Admiral by Charlotte Pomerantz | 1975 |
Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield | 1976 |
Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer | 1977 |
Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep | 1978 |
Amifika by Lucille Clifton | Special Recognition, 1978 |
The wheel of King Asoka by Ashok Davar | Special Recognition, 1978 |
Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History Through Indian Art by Jamake Highwater | 1979 |
The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope by David Kherdian | 1980 |
Natural History by M. B. Goffstein | Special Recognition, 1980 |
First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin by Florence Meiman White | 1981 |
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind by Athena V. Lord | 1982 |
Hiroshima No Pika by Maruki Toshi | 1983 |
All the Colors of the Race by Arnold Adoff | Special Recognition, 1983 |
Children as Teachers of Peace by Gerald G. Jampolsky | Special Recognition, 1983 |
Rain of fire by Marion Dane Bauer | 1984 |
The Short Life of Sophie Scholl by Hermann Vinke | 1985 |
Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers by Milton Meltzer | 1986 |
Nobody Wants a Nuclear War: Story and Pictures by Judith Vigna | 1987 |
Waiting for the Rain by Sheila Gordon | 1988 |
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton | tie, 1989 |
Looking Out by Victoria Boutis | tie, 1989 |
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Pat McKissack | 1990 |
The Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting | Honor Book, 1990 |
The Big Book for Peace by Ann Durell | 1991 |
Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss | 1992 |
Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti by Frances Temple | Book for Older Children, 1993 |
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold | Picture Book, 1993 |
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories by Ellen Levine | Book for Older Children, 1994 |
This Land Is My Land by George Littlechild | Picture Book, 1994 |
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell Freedman | Book for Older Children, 1995 |
Sitti's Secrets by Naomi Shihab Nye | Picture Book, 1995 |
The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings | Special Commendation, 1995 |
The Well by Mildred D. Taylor | Book for Older Children, 1996 |
Growing Up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Book for Older Children, 1997 |
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull | Picture Book, 1997 |
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye | Book for Older Children, 1998 |
Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne | Picture Book, 1998 |
Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff | Book for Older Children, 1999 |
Marianthe's Story: Painted Words and Spoken Memories by Aliki | Picture Book, 1999 |
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges | Book for Older Children, 2000 |
Molly Bannaky by Chris K. Soentpiet | Picture Book, 2000 |
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan | Book for Older Children, 2001 |
The Composition by Antonio Skármeta | Picture Book, 2001 |
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo | Book for Older Children, 2002 |
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport | Picture Book, 2002 |
Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis | Book for Older Children, 2003; Special Recognition, 2004 |
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers | Picture Book, 2003 |
Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope by Beverley Naidoo | Books for Older Children, 2004 |
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull | Picture Book, 2004 |
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis | Special Recognition, 2004 |
The Breadwinner Trilogy by Deborah Ellis | Special Recognition, 2004 |
Mud City by Deborah Ellis | Special Recognition, 2004 |
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote by Ann Bausum | Book for Older Children, 2005 |
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen Blumenthal | Book for Older Children, 2006 |
Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights by Jim Haskins | Books for Younger Children, 2006 |
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata | Book for Older Children, 2007 |
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-Tai | Books for Younger Children, 2007 |
We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane Brimner | Book for Older Children, 2008 |
The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave Finds Freedom by Emily Arnold McCully | Books for Younger Children, 2008 |
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle | Books for Older Children, 2009 |
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola | Books for Younger Children, 2009 |
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge | Books for Older Children, 2010 |
Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan by Jeanette Winter | Books for Younger Children, 2010 |
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glaser | tie, Books for Younger Children, 2011 |
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park | tie, Books for Younger Children, 2011 |
Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling | Books for Older Children, 2012 |
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Susan L. Roth | Books for Younger Children, 2012 |
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson | Books for Older Children, 2013 |
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson | Books for Younger Children, 2013 |
Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes | Books for Older Children, 2014 |
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel | Books for Younger Children, 2014 |
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri Kanefield | Books for Older Children, 2015 |
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh | Books for Younger Children, 2015 |
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery | Books for Older Children, 2016 |
New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer | Books for Younger Children, 2016 |
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren Stelson | Books for Older Children, 2017 |
Steamboat School by Deborah Hopkinson | Books for Younger Children, 2017 |