2000s

Honor Books:
• Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by SD Schindler (Random House)
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic Nonfiction, an imprint of Scholastic)
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

Honor Books:
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons/a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)
• The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

Honor Books:
• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)

Honor Books:
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
• A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)

Honor Books:
• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
• Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)

Honor Books:
• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)

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

1990s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Book:
• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (Dial)

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)

• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
• Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)

Honor Books:
• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
• Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)

Honor Books:
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)

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

Honor Books:
• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint)
• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)

Honor Books:
• Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

Honor Book:
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)

Honor Books:
• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)

1980s Top of List and Quick Search

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

Honor Books:
• After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow)
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)

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

Honor Books:
• Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop)
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)

Honor Books:
• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (Knopf)
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (Harper)
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (Bradbury)

Honor Books:
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain (Harper)

Honor Books:
• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
• Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (Farrar)
• Graven Images by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)

Honor Books:
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)

Honor Books:
• The Fledgling by Jane Langton (Harper)
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)

Honor Book:
• The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (Greenwillow)

1970s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Book:
• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

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

Honor Books:
• Abel's Island by William Steig (Farrar)
• A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking)
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (Harper)

Honor Books:
• Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Four Winds)
• The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)
• Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene (Dial)

Honor Book:
• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)

Honor Books:
• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (Crowell)
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
• Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown)
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles (Little, Brown)
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
• Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar)
• Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

Honor Books:
• Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon)
• The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore (World)
• Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele (Viking)

1960s Top of List and Quick Search

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

Honor Books:
• Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
• The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
• The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Scribner)
• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
• The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
• Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Harper)
• The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
• The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
• The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell (Pantheon)
• The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz (Harper)

Honor Book:
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (Follett)

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

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

Honor Books:
• Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis (World)
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
• Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz (Harper)

Honor Books:
• America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
• Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (Houghton)
• The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson) (Farrar)

Honor Books:
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Dutton)
• America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
• The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (Harcourt)

1950s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper)
• Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
• Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay (Harcourt)
• The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
• The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz (Westminster)
• Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt)
• The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (Viking)
• Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko (Crowell)

Honor Books:
• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (Harper)
• The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
• Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
• The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads (Viking)
• Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)

Honor Books:
• The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
• The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist (Harper)
• Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
• Banner In The Sky by James Ullman (Lippincott)

Honor Books:
• All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
• Shadrach by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
• Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
• Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
• Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)

Honor Books:
• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (Harper)
• Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
• Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil (Viking)
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
• Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)

Honor Books:
• Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity (Viking)
• Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
• The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Scribner)
• The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer (Viking)
• The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)

Honor Books:
• Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
• Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)
• Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
• The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish (Harper)

Honor Books:
• Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill (Viking)
• The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz (Longmans)
• Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday)
• George Washington by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
• Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst (Winston)

1940s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• Seabird by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
• Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin (Viking)
• My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett (Random House)
• Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Knopf)

Honor Books:
• Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
• Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)
• The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)
• The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander (Holt)
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

Honor Books:
• Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes (Messner)
• Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
• The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Harper)
• The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) (Appleton)
• The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
• The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)
• Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston (Scribner)
• New Found World by Katherine Shippen (Viking)

Honor Books:
• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
• The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
• Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
• Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
• Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (Viking)
• Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
• Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (Coward)

Honor Books:
• The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
• Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)

Honor Books:
• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
• George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
• Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
• Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Blue Willow by Doris Gates (Viking)
• Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)
• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
• Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)

Honor Books:
• The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (Viking)
• Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
• By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
• Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)

1930s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• Nino by Valenti Angelo (Viking)
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater (Little, Brown)
• Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford (Holt)
• Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt)
• Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)

Honor Books:
• Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman (Little, Brown)
• Bright Island by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

Honor Books:
• Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski (Stokes)
• Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones (Viking)
• The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
• Winterbound by Margery Bianco (Viking)
• The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes (Doubleday)
• Audubon by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
• Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong (Dodd)
• The Good Master by Kate Seredy (Viking)
• Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
• All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry (Winston)

Honor Books:
• Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger (Longmans)
• Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
• Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum (Harper)

Honor Books:
• The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
• Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster (Houghton)
• ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág (Coward)
• Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) (Appleton)
• New Land by Sarah Schmidt (McBride)
• Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
• Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
• Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle (Houghton)

Honor Books:
• Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
• The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
• Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon (Doubleday)

Honor Books:
• The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan)
• Calico Bush by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
• Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann)
• Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery (Longmans)
• Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee (Houghton)
• Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
• Floating Island by Anne Parrish (Harper)
• The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus (Harcourt)
• Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard (Doubleday)
• Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams (Dutton)
• Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
• Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Doubleday)
• Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best (Doubleday)
• Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen (Little, Brown)

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

1920s Top of List and Quick Search

Honor Books:
• Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett (Longmans)
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (Coward)
• The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock (Dutton)
• Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
• Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon (Doubleday)
• Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney (Macmillan)

Honor Books:
• The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young (Longmans)
• Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)

Honor Books:
• [None recorded]

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

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

Honor Books:
• [None recorded]

Honor Books:
• [None recorded]

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

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