| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dave Barry |
Peter and the Starcatchers
4 up |
| Joseph Bruchac |
Hidden roots
6 up |
| Gennifer Choldenko |
Al Capone Does My Shirts
5 up |
| Carolyn Coman |
The big house
4 up |
| Sharon Creech |
Heartbeat
5 up |
| Michael De Guzman |
Beekman's Big Deal
5 up |
| Russell Freedman |
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
5 up |
| Patricia Reilly Giff |
A house of tailors
5 up |
| Lorie Ann Grover |
On Pointe
6 up |
| Mary Downing Hahn |
The Old Willis Place
5 up |
| Pete Hautman |
Godless
7 up |
| Cynthia Kadohata |
Kira-Kira
5 up |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
Gifts
6 up |
| Carolyn Marsden |
Silk umbrellas
4 up |
| Ann M. Martin |
Here Today
6 up |
| Margaret McMullan |
How I found the Strong
5 up |
| Sy Montgomery |
The Tarantula Scientist
4 up |
| Gerald Morris |
The princess, the crone, and the dung-cart knight
5 up |
| Donna Jo Napoli |
Bound
6 up |
| Richard Peck |
The teacher's funeral
5 up |
| Rodman Philbrick |
Young Man and the Sea
5 up |
| Daniel Pinkwater |
Looking for Bobowicz
5 up |
| Jack Prelutsky |
If not for the cat
4 up |
| Pam Muñoz Ryan |
Becoming Naomi León
4 up |
| Gary D. Schmidt |
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
6 up |
| Jon Scieszka |
Science Verse
4 up |
| Neal Shusterman |
The Schwa Was Here
6 up |
| Jean Van Leeuwen |
Cabin on Trouble Creek
5 up |
| Andrea Warren |
Escape from Saigon
6 up |
| Gloria Whelan |
Chu Ju's house
5 up |
