| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lloyd Alexander |
The Rope Trick
5 up |
| Julia Alvarez |
Before We Were Free
7 up |
| Edward Irving Wortis |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
6 up |
| Marion Dane Bauer |
Runt
4 up |
| Betsy Byars |
Keeper of the Doves
4 up |
| Cathryn Clinton |
A stone in my hand
6 up |
| Jacqueline Davies |
Where the Ground Meets the Sky
5 up |
| Nancy Farmer |
The House of the Scorpion
6 up |
| Jean Ferris |
Once Upon a Marigold
5 up |
| John Fleischman |
Phineas Gage
5 up |
| Neil Gaiman |
Coraline
5 up |
| Jack Gantos |
What Would Joey Do?
5 up |
| Kristine George |
Swimming upstream
5 up |
| Michelle Y. Green |
A Strong Right Arm
4 up |
| Carl Hiaasen |
Hoot
6 up |
| James Howe |
It came from beneath the bed!
4 up |
| Lois Lowry |
Gooney Bird Greene
4 up |
| Carolyn Marsden |
The gold-threaded dress
4 up |
| Ann M. Martin |
A Corner of the Universe
5 up |
| L.A. Meyer |
Bloody Jack
6 up |
| Walter Dean Myers |
Patrol
4 up |
| Donna Jo Napoli |
Daughter of Venice
6 up |
| Linda Sue Park |
When my Name was Keoko
6 up |
| Elizabeth Partridge |
This Land Was Made for You and Me
6 up |
| Katherine Paterson |
The Same Stuff as Stars
5 up |
| Jerry Spinelli |
Loser
5 up |
| Stephanie S. Tolan |
Surviving the Applewhites
5 up |
| Vivian Vande Velde |
Heir Apparent
6 up |
| Sally M. Walker |
Fossil Fish Found Alive
5 up |
| Jacqueline Woodson |
Hush
6 up |
