| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Matthew Tobin Anderson |
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked
|
| Gennifer Choldenko |
Notes from a liar and her dog
|
| Bonnie Christensen |
Woody Guthrie
|
| Sharon Creech |
Love That Dog
|
| Sis Deans |
Racing the past
|
| Susan Fletcher |
|
| Jan Greenberg |
Vincent Van Gogh
|
| Jessie Haas |
Runaway Radish
|
| Karen Hesse |
Witness
|
| Kimberly Willis Holt |
Dancing in Cadillac light
|
| Polly Horvath |
Everything on a Waffle
|
| Patrice Kindl |
Goose Chase: A Novel
|
| David Klass |
You Don't Know Me
|
| Jane Kurtz |
Jakarta missing
|
| Sy Montgomery |
Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans
|
| Gerald Morris |
Parsifal's page
|
| Richard Mosher |
Zazoo
|
| Walter Dean Myers |
Bad boy
|
| An Na |
A Step From Heaven
|
| Linda Sue Park |
A Single Shard
|
| Gary Paulsen |
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
|
| Jack Prelutsky |
Awful Ogre's Awful Day
|
| Graham Salisbury |
Lord of the deep
|
| Nancy Springer |
I am Morgan le Fay
|
| Mildred D. Taylor |
The Land
|
| Wendelin Van Draanen |
Flipped
|
| Deborah Wiles |
Love, Ruby Lavender
|
| Vera Williams |
Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart
|
| Virginia Euwer Wolff |
True Believer
|
| N. F. Zucker |
Benno'S Bear
|
