| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2010 |
|
Suzanne Collins |
The Hunger Games |
| 2009 |
|
Jeff Kinney |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| 2008 |
|
Cynthia Lord |
Rules |
| 2007 |
|
Carl Hiaasen |
Flush |
| 2006 |
|
Mary Downing Hahn |
The Old Willis Place |
| 2005 |
|
Kate DiCamillo |
The Tale of Despereaux |
| 2004 |
|
Jerry Spinelli |
Loser |
| 2003 |
|
Sharon Creech |
Love That Dog |
| 2002 |
|
Kate DiCamillo |
Because of Winn-Dixie |
| 2001 |
|
Christopher Paul Curtis |
Bud, Not Buddy |
| 2000 |
|
Louis Sachar |
Holes |
| 1999 |
|
Gail Carson Levine |
Ella Enchanted |
| 1998 |
|
Peg Kehret |
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio |
| 1997 |
|
Barbara Park |
Mick Harte was Here |
| 1996 |
|
Mary Downing Hahn |
Time for Andrew |
| 1995 |
|
Susan Cooper |
The Boggart |
| 1994 |
|
Bruce Coville |
Jennifer Murdley\u2019s Toad |
| 1993 |
|
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Shiloh |
| 1992 |
|
Jerry Spinelli |
Maniac Magee |
| 1991 |
|
Lois Lowry |
Number the Stars |
| 1990 |
|
Amy Ehrlich |
Where it Stops Nobody Knows |
| 1989 |
|
Gary Paulsen |
Hatchet |
| 1988 |
|
Mary Downing Hahn |
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story |
| 1987 |
|
Elizabeth Winthrop |
The Castle in the Attic |
| 1986 |
|
Robert Kimmel Smith |
The War with Grandpa |
| 1985 |
|
Beverly Cleary |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
| 1984 |
|
Pat Rhoades Mauser |
A Bundle of Sticks |
| 1983 |
|
Judy Blume |
Tiger Eyes |
| 1982 |
|
Francine Pascal |
The Hand-Me-Down Kid |
| 1981 |
|
James Howe |
Bunnicula |
| 1980 |
|
David Budbill |
Bones on Black Spruce Mountain |
| 1979 |
|
Susan Beth Pfeffer |
Kid Power Strikes Back |
| 1978 |
|
Lois Duncan |
Summer of fear |
| 1977 |
|
Stella Pevsner |
A Smart Kid Like You |
| 1976 |
|
Jean Merrill |
The toothpaste millionaire |
| 1975 |
|
Betsy Byars |
Eighteenth Emergency |
| 1974 |
|
George A. Woods |
Catch a Killer |
| 1973 |
|
Donald E. Caufield |
Never Steal a Magic Cat |
| 1972 |
|
Mel Ellis |
Flight of the white wolf |
| 1971 |
|
B. K. Erwin |
Go to the Room of the Eyes |
| 1970 |
|
Walt Morey |
Kävik the Wolf Dog |
| 1969 |
|
M. W. Thompson |
Two in the Wilderness |
| 1968 |
|
Jacqueline Jackson |
The Taste of Spruce Gum |
| 1967 |
|
Phillip Viereck |
The Summer I Was Lost |
| 1966 |
|
Beverly Cleary |
Ribsy |
| 1965 |
|
Sterling North |
Rascal |
| 1964 |
|
Kelly Ray Masters |
The Bristle Face |
| 1963 |
|
Sheila Burnford |
The Incredible Journey |
| 1962 |
|
Honore Lampman |
City under the Back Steps |
| 1961 |
|
Thelma Bell |
Captain Ghost |
| 1960 |
|
Phoebe Erickson |
Double or Nothing |
| 1959 |
|
Margaret Carver Leighton |
Comanche of the Seventh |
| 1958 |
|
Beverly Cleary |
Fifteen |
| 1957 |
|
Mildred Mastin Pace |
Old Bones, the Wonder Horse |
