2009
Medal Winner:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean
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Honor Books:

2008

Medal Winner:

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
  Voices From a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schllitz

Honor Books:

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• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
   

• \Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
   

• Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

2007

Medal Winner:

• The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

Honor Books:

• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

• Rules by Cynthia Lord
   

• Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm

2006

Medal Winner:

• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Honor Books:

• Whittington by Alan Armstrong

• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
   

• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

2005

Medal Winner:

• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Honor Books:

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

• Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson
  and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
   

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

2004

Medal Winner:

• The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Timothy Basil

Honor Books:

• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes

• American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, An by Jim Murphy

2003

Medal Winner:

• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

Honor Books:

• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
   

• Hoot by Carl Hiassen
   

• A Corner of the Universe by Anne M. Martin
   

• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
   

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

2002

Medal Winner:

• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
   

• Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

Honor Books:

• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath

2001

Medal Winner:

• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

Honor Books:

• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
   

• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
   

• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Related Title: Available on DVD)

2000

Medal Winner:

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Honor Books:

• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
   

• Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
   

• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

1999

Medal Winner:

Holes by Louis Sacher

Honor Books:

A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

1998

Medal Winner:

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Honor Books:

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (Related Title: A Talk With Gail Carson Levine)
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

1997

Medal Winner:

The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Honor Books:

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

1996

Medal Winner:

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

Honor Books:

What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

1995

Medal Winner:

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Honor Books:

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

1994

Medal Winner:

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Honor Books:

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

1993

Medal Winner:

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

Honor Books:

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

1992

Medal Winner:

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Honor Books:

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

1991

Medal Winner:

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Honor Books:

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990

Medal Winner:

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Honor Books:

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

1989

Medal Winner:

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

Honor Books:

Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
In the Beginning: Creation Stories From Around the World by Virginia Hamilton

1988

Medal Winner:

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

Honor Books:

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer

1987

Medal Winner::

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Honor Books:

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

1986

Medal Winner:

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Honor Books:

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

1985

Medal Winner:

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

Honor Books:

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

1984

Medal Winner:

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Honor Books:

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Related Title: Keeping the Promise)
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voight

1983

Medal Winner:

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

Honor Books:

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (Related Title: Getting to Know William Steig)
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982

Medal Winner:

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Related Title: A Talk With Nancy Willard)

Honor Books:

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

1981

Medal Winner:

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Related Title: A Talk With Katherine Paterson) (Related Title: Available on DVD)

Honor Books:

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

1980

Medal Winner:

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos

Honor Books:

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

1979

Medal Winner:

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Related Title: Get a Clue!)

Honor Books:

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (Related Title: A Talk With Katherine Paterson)

1978

Medal Winner:

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Related Title: A Talk With Katherine Paterson) (Related Title: Available on DVD)

Honor Books:

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

1977

Medal Winner:

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D.Taylor

Honor Books:

Abel's Island by William Steig (Related Title: Getting to Know William Steig)
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

1976

Medal Winner:

The Grey King by Susan Cooper

Honor Books:

The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep

1975

Medal Winner:

M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

Honor Books:

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

1974

Medal Winner:

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Honor Books:

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

1973

Medal Winner:

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Honor Books:

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

1972

Medal Winner:

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Honor Books:

The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin

1971

Medal Winner:

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

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

Medal Winner:

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

Honor Books:

The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor

1969

Medal Winner:

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

Honor Books:

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

1968

Medal Winner:

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

Honor Books:

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg (Available on audiocassette)
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967

Medal Winner:

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

Honor Books:

The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik
The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1966

Medal Winner:

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Honor Books:

The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (Related Title: Available on DVD)
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

1965

Medal Winner:

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

Honor Books:

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964

Medal Winner:

It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville

Honor Books:

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

1963

Medal Winner:

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Honor Books:

Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud.
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1962

Medal Winner:

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

Honor Books:

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

1961

Medal Winner:

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

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.

1960

Medal Winner:

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

Honor Books:

America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Related Title: Available on DVD)
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

1959

Medal Winner:

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Honor Books:

The Perilous Road by William O. Steele
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
Along Came a Dog by Meindert Dejong

1958

Medal Winner:

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

Honor Books:

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

1957

Medal Winner:

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson

Honor Books:

Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

1956

Medal Winner:

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Honor Books:

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

1955

Medal Winner:

The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

Honor Books:

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

1954

Medal Winner:

...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

Honor Books:

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

1953

Medal Winner:

Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

Honor Books:

Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

1952

Medal Winner:

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

Honor Books:

Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling

1951

Medal Winner:

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

Honor Books:

Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton

1950

Medal Winner:

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Honor Books:

Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
George Washington by Genevieve Foster

1949

Medal Winner:

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

Honor Books:

My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

1948

Medal Winner:

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois

Honor Books:

Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman

1947

Medal Winner:

Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Honor Books:

Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud.
Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell

1946

Medal Winner:

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

Honor Books:

Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
New Found World by Katherine Shippen
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means

1945

Medal Winner:

Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

Honor Books:

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton

1944

Medal Winner:

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Related Title: Available on DVD)

Honor Books:

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

1943

Medal Winner:

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Honor Books:

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

1942

Medal Winner:

The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds

Honor Books:

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster

1941

Medal Winner:

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

Honor Books:

Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr

1940

Medal Winner:

Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

Honor Books:

Boy With a Pack by Stephen W. Meader
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson

1939

Medal Winner:

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

Honor Books:

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
Nino by Valenti Angelo
Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton

1938

Medal Winner:

The White Stag by Kate Seredy

Honor Books:

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

1937

Medal Winner:

Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

Honor Books:

The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
Winterbound by Margery Bianco
Audubon by Constance Rourke

1936

Medal Winner:

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Honor Books:

Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

1935

Medal Winner:

Dobry by Monica Shannon

Honor Books:

Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum

1934

Medal Winner:

Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs

Honor Books:

Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud.
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
New Land by Sarah Schmidt

1933

Medal Winner:

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis

Honor Books:

Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift

1932

Medal Winner:

Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

Honor Books:

Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery

1931

Medal Winner:

The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Honor Books:

Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
Mountains Are Free by Julie Davis Adams
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen
Floating Island by Anne Parrish

1930

Medal Winner:

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

Honor Books:

Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift
Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller

1929

Medal Winner:

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

Honor Books:

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

1928

Medal Winner:

Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Honor Books:

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

1927

Medal Winner:

Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

Honor Books:

1926

Medal Winner:

Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

Honor Books:

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

1925

Medal Winner:

Tales From Silver Lands by Charles Finger

Honor Books:

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

1924

Medal Winner:

The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

Honor Books:

 1923

Medal Winner:

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Honor Books:

1922

Medal Winner:

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

Honor Books:

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