Reading Into the Past Challenge
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This year, the YSU English Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary! To continue in the spirit with the National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature Gene Luen Yang’s Reading Without Walls Challenge, we are going to be Reading Into the Past! Both challenges ask students to read three books that are outside of their comfort zone. The same guidelines will apply, but instead of encouraging your students to read any three books that meet the criteria below, please have them choose books from among the past 40 years of English Festival books. All students from a participating English Festival school are eligible to participate, even if they will not be attending the Festival. Please send a list of participants to [email protected] by April 1, 2018. We will reward the school with the most students/most books read with a collection of the 2019 English Festival books.
The following list is organized by author, book title year. If more than one year follows the book title, that book was used in multiple years.
Reading Into the Past Challenge
1. Read a book about a character who doesn’t look like you or live like you.
2. Read a book about a topic you don’t know much about.
3. Read a book in a format that you don’t normally read for fun. This might be a chapter book, a graphic novel, a book in verse, a picture book, or a hybrid book.
Bolded type is year, grade level, and guest author that year.
1979: (7-9): Robb White, Deathwatch (1979), J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1979), C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (1979), Ursula LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1979), Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1979), S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1979), Robert Lipsyte, The Contender (1979)
(10-12): James Forman, Ceremony of Innocence (1979), Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1979), Ursula LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1979), J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1979), Robb White, Deathwatch (1979, 1994), Paul Zindel, The Pigman (1979, 1993)
1980: (7-9): Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl (1980), Mollie Hunter, A Stranger Came Ashore (1980), M. E. Kerr, If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? (1980), Scott O'Dell, Child of Fire (1980), Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die (1980), Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1980)
(10-12): Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1980), Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese (1980, 1988), Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl (1980), Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1980), M. E. Kerr, If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? (1980), John Knowles, A Separate Peace (1980)
1981: (7-9): Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1981), John Donovan, Wild in the World (1981), Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown (1981), Sharon Bell Mathis, Listen for the Fig Tree (1981), Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsong (1981), Robert O'Brien, Z for Zachariah (1981) (10-12): Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1981), John Donovan, Wild in the World (1981), Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead (1981), Isabelle Holland, The Man Without a Face (1981), Jack London, Call of the Wild (1981), Andre Norton, Merlin's Mirror (1981), Sandra Scoppettone, The Late Great Me (1981)
1982: Robert Newton Peck (7-9): Vera and Bill Cleaver, Where the Lilies Bloom (1982), Walter Farley, The Great Dane Thor (1982), Felice Holman, Slake's Limbo (1982), Richard Peck, Father Figure (1982), Robert Newton Peck, Millie's Boy (1982), Kin Platt, The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear (1982), H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1982)
(10-12): Vera and Bill Cleaver, Where the Lillies Bloom (1982), Hannah Green, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1982), Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf (1982), Richard Peck, Father Figure (1982), Robert Newton Peck, Millie's Boy (1982), Fred Uhlman, Reunion (1982), Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (1982),
1983: Joan W. Blos (7-9): Lloyd Alexander, Westmark (1983), Joan W. Blos, A Gathering of Days (1983), John Christopher, The White Mountains (1983), E. L. Konigsburg, Father's Arcane Daughter (1983), Conrad Richter, The Light in the Forest (1983), Ouida Sebestyen, Words by Heart (1983, 1987), Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (1983), Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming (1983, 1990)
(10-12): Joan W. Blos, A Gathering of Days (1983), Jean Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston, Farewell to Manzanar (1983, 1999), Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved (1983), Conrad Richter, The Light in the Forest (1983), Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (1983), Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming (1983, 1990), Elie Wiesel, Dawn (1983)
1984: William Sleator (7-9): Mildred Ames, Anna to the Infinite Power (1984), Louis L'Amour, Down the Long Hills (1984), Richard Peck, Ghosts I Have Been (1984), Daniel Pinkwater, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (1984), Aranka Siegel, Upon the Head of the Goat (1984), William Sleator, House of Stairs (1984), Glendon Swarthout, Bless the Beasts and Children (1984)
(10-12): Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave (1984), John Hersey, Hiroshima (1984), Richard Peck, Ghosts I Have Been (1984), Daniel Pinkwater, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (1984), Aranka Siegel, Upon the Head of the Goat (1984), William Sleator, House of Stairs (1984), Glendon Swarthout, Bless the Beasts and Children (1984)
1985: M. E. Kerr (7-9): Frank Bonham, The Missing Persons League (1985), Lois Duncan, Stranger With My Face (1985), Howard Fast, April Morning (1985), M. E. Kerr, ME ME ME ME ME: Not a Novel (1985), M. E. Kerr, What I Really Think of You (1985), Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game (1985), Theodore Taylor, The Cay (1985)
(10-12): Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease (1985), Gunnel Beckman, Admission to the Feast (1985), Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery (1985), Lois Duncan, Stranger with My Face (1985), M. E. Kerr, ME ME ME ME ME: Not a Novel (1985), M. E. Kerr, What I Really Think of You (1985), Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation (1985)
1986: Richard Peck (7-9): Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1986), Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer (1986), Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly (1986), Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow (1986), Richard Peck, The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp (1986), Richard Peck, Representing Super Doll (1986), Mildred D. Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1986) (10-12): Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio (1986), Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986), Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer (1986), Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly (1986), Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country (1986), Richard Peck, The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp (1986), Richard Peck, Representing Super Doll (1986),
1987: Ouida Sebestyen (7-9): Katherine Paterson, The Master Puppeteer (1987), Phillippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden (1987), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling (1987), Ouida Sebestyen, Far from Home (1987), Ouida Sebestyen, Words by Heart (1983, 1987), Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1987), Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1987)
(10-12): Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising (1987, 1995), Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca (1987), Katherine Paterson, Come Sing, Jimmy Jo (1987), Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1987), Ouida Sebestyen, Far from Home (1987), Ouida Sebestyen, IOU's (1987), Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1987)
1988: Robert Cormier (7-9): Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting (1988), Robert Cormier, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1988), Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (1988), Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese (1988), Paula Fox, One-Eyed Cat (1988), L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1988), Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1988)
(10-12): Robert Cormier, After the First Death (1988, 1998), Robert Cormier, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1988, 1998), Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese (1980, 1988), Madeleine L'Engle, The Young Unicorns (1988). Zibby Oneal, A Formal Feeling (1988), William Sleator, Fingers (1988), Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1988)
1989: Rosa Guy (7-9): Sue Ellen Bridgers, Home Before Dark (1989, 2003), Leon Garfield, Smith (1989), Rosa Guy, The Disappearance (1989), Rosa Guy, The Friends (1989), Hadley Irwin, Abby, My Love (1989), Norma Fox Mazer, After the Rain (1989, 2003), Zibby Oneal, The Language of Goldfish (1989)
(10-12): Sue Ellen Bridgers, Home Before Dark (1989), Leon Garfield, Smith (1989), William Goldman, The Princess Bride (1989), Rosa Guy, The Disappearance (1989), Rosa Guy, The Friends (1989), Zibby Oneal, The Language of Goldfish (1989), Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1989)
1990: Cynthia Voigt (7-9): Lloyd Alexander, The El Dorado Adventure (1990), Felice Holman, The Wild Children (1990), Robert Louis Stevenson, The Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1990), Cynthia Voigt, Dicey's Song (1990), Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming (1983, 1990), Cynthia Voigt, A Solitary Blue (1990, 2000)
(10-12): Malcolm Bosse, The Captives of Time (1990), Virginia Hamilton, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1990), Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1990), Cynthia Voigt, Dicey's Song (1990), Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming (1983, 1990), Cynthia Voigt, A Solitary Blue (1990, 2000)
1991: Sue Ellen Bridgers (7-9): Sue Ellen Bridgers, All Together Now (1991), Sue Ellen Bridgers, Notes for Another Life (1991), A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1991), C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1991), Gary Paulsen, Hatchet (1991), Cynthia Rylant, A Kindness (1991), Lawrence Yep, Dragonwings (1991)
(10-12): James Agee, A Death in the Family (1991), Sue Ellen Bridgers, Notes for Another Life (1991), Sue Ellen Bridgers, Permanent Connections (1991, 1998), Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man (1991, 1994), Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree (1991), A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1991), Lawrence Yep, Dragonwings (1991) 1992: Chris Crutcher (7-9): Chris Crutcher, Running Loose (1992), Chris Crutcher, Stotan! (1992, 1998), Donald R. Gallo, ed., Sixteen Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (1992), S.E. Hinton, Tex (1992), Irene Hunt, Across Five Aprils (1992), Janet Linn, The Root Cellar (1992), James Ramsey Ullman, Banner in the Sky (1992)
(10-12): Chris Crutcher, The Crazy Horse Electric Game (1992), Chris Crutcher, Running Loose (1992), Chris Crutcher, Stotan! (1992), Donald R. Gallo, ed., Sixteen Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (1992), Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding [the play] (1992), Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels (1992), Robert C. O'Brien, Z for Zachariah (1992)
1993: Paul Zindel (7-9): Avi, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1993), Donald R. Gallo, ed., Center Stage (1993), Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear (1993), Ouida Sebestyen, The Girl in the Box (1993), Cynthia Voigt, Izzy, Willy-Nilly (1993), Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1993), Paul Zindel, The Pigman (1993)
(10-12): Oliver LaFarge, Laughing Boy (1993), Suzanne Newton, I Will Call It Georgie's Blues (1993), Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (1993, 2012), William Sleator, Singularity (1993), Paul Zindel, The Amazing and Death- Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman (1993), Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1993), Paul Zindel, The Pigman (1979, 1993)
1994: Bruce Brooks (7-9): Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man (1994, 1998), Bruce Brooks, No Kidding (1994), Bruce Brooks, What Hearts (1994, 1998), John Christopher, When the Tripods Came (1994), Linda Crew, Children of the River (1994), M. E. Kerr, Fell (1994), Scott O'Dell, Sing Down the Moon (1994)
(10-12): Avi, Nothing But the Truth (1994), Bruce Brooks, Midnight Hour Encores (1994, 1998), Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man (1991, 1994), Bruce Brooks, What Hearts (1994), Katherine Paterson, Lyddie (1994), Mildred D. Taylor, The Road to Memphis (1994), Robb White, Deathwatch (1979, 1994)
1995: Kathryn Lasky (7-9): Will Hobbs, Downriver (1995), Kathryn Lasky, Beyond the Divide (1995), Kathryn Lasky, The Night Journey (1995), Kathryn Lasky, Pageant (1995),Kathryn Lasky, Surtsey (1995), Carolyn Meyer, White Lilacs (1995), Lensey Namioka, April and the Dragon Lady (1995), Gary Paulsen, The Monument (1995)
(10-12): Alice Childress, Rainbow Jordan (1995), Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising (1987, 1995), Kathryn Lasky, Beyond the Divide (1995), Kathryn Lasky, The Bone Wars (1995), Kathryn Lasky, The Night Journey (1995), Kathryn Lasky, Surtsey (1995), Chap Reaver, A Little Bit Dead (1995), Budge Wilson, The Leaving and Other Stories (1995)
1996: Will Hobbs (7-9): Karen Cushman, Catherine, Called Birdy (1996), Will Hobbs, Beardance (1996), Will Hobbs, The Big Wander (1996), Ellen Levine, Freedom's Children (1996, 2010), Lois Lowry, The Giver (1996), Jean Thesman, The Rain Catchers (1996)
(10-12): Will Hobbs, Beardance (1996), Will Hobbs, Bearstone (1996), Will Hobbs, Changes in Latitudes (1996), Ellen Levine, Freedom's Children (1996, 2010), Cynthia Ryland, I Had Seen Castles (1996), Cynthia Voigt, Jackaroo (1996), Virginia Euwer Wolff, Make Lemonade (1996, 2002)
1997: Harry Mazer (7-9): John Marsden, Letters from the Inside (1997), Harry Maze, The Island Keeper (1997), Harry Maze, The Last Mission (1997), Harry Maze, Who Is Eddie Leonard? (1997), Gary Paulsen, Harris and Me (1997), Suzanne Fisher Staples, Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1997, 2000), Jacqueline Woodson, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (1997, 2005)
(10-12): Avi, The Man Who Was Poe (1997), Brock Cole, Celine (1997), John Marsden, Letters from the Inside (1997), Harry Mazer, The Last Mission (1997), Harry Mazer, Who Is Eddie Leonard? (1997), Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty (1997), Suzanne Fisher Staples, Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1997, 2000)
1998: Robert Cormier, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Chris Crutcher, Bruce Brooks, M.E. Kerr (7-9): Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man (1994, 1998), Bruce Brooks, What Hearts (1994, 1998), Robert Cormier, Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1998), Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (1998, 2003), Chris Crutcher, Stotan! (1992, 1998), Donald R. Gallo, ed., Connections (1998), M. E. Kerr, Gentlehands (1998)
(10-12): Sue Ellen Bridgers, Permanent Connections (1991, 1998), Bruce Brooks, Midnight Hour Encores (1994, 1998), Robert Cormier, After the First Death (1988, 1998), Robert Cormier, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1988, 1998), Chris Crutcher, Ironman (1998, 2008), M. E. Kerr, Deliver Us from Evie (1998), M. E. Kerr, Gentlehands (1998)
1999: Christopher Paul Curtis (7-9): James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, My Brother Sam Is Dead (1999), Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 (1999, 2008), Angela Johnson, Humming Whispers (1999), Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown (1999), Naomi Shihab Nye, ed., This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World (1999), Ruth White, Belle Prater's Boy (1999)
(10-12): Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (1999), Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 (1999), Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster (1999), Jean Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston, Farewell to Manzanar (1983, 1999), Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (1999), Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown (1999), Naomi Shihab Nye, Fuel (1999)
2000: Suzanne Fisher Staples (7-9): Edward Bloor, Tangerine (2000), Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust (2000), Ji Li Jiang, Red Scarf Girl (2000), Suzanne Fisher Staples, Dangerous Skies (2000), Suzanne Fisher Staples, Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1997, 2000), Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief (2000, 2011), Cynthia Voigt, A Solitary Blue (1990, 2000)
(10-12): Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying (2000), Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust (2000), Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (2000), Suzanne Fisher Staples, Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1997, 2000), Suzanne Fisher Staples, Haveli (2000), Rob Thomas, Doing Time (2000), Cynthia Voigt, A Solitary Blue (1990, 2000)
2001: Tim Wynne-Jones (7-9): Joan Bauer, Squashed (2001), Will Hobbs, Ghost Canoe (2001), Anita Lobell, No Pretty Pictures (2001), Walter Dean Myers, Somewhere in the Darkness (2001), Louis Sachar, Holes (2001), Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets (2001), Tim Wynne-Jones, Stephen Fair (2001)
(10-12): Kyoko Mori, Shizuko's Daughter (2001), Heather Quarles, A Door Near Here (2001), Esmerelda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican (2001), Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave (2001), Rich Wallace, Wrestling Sturbridge (2001), Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro (2001), Tim Wynne-Jones, Stephen Fair (2001)
2002: Virginia Euwer Wolff, Paul Janeczko, Tim Wendel (7-9): Joan Abelove, Go and Come Back (2002), David Almond, Skellig (2002), Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World (2002, 2010), Philip Pullman, The Ruby in the Smoke (2002), Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul B. Janeczko, eds., I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You (2002), Virginia Euwer Wolff, Make Lemonade (2002), Virginia Euwer Wolff, The Mozart Season (2002)
(10-12): Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (2002, 2012), Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow (2002), Walter Dean Myers, Monster (2002), Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul B. Janeczko, eds., I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You (2002), Ellen Wittlinger, Hard Love (2002), Virginia Euwer Wolff, Make Lemonade (1996, 2002), Virginia Euwer Wolff, The Mozart Season (2002)
2003: Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Norma Fox Mazer, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Chris Crutcher (7-9): Sue Ellen Bridgers, Home Before Dark (1989, 2003), Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (1998, 2003), Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy (2003, 2008), Norma Fox Mazer, After the Rain (1989, 2003), Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (2003), Sharon Dennis Wyeth, A Piece of Heaven (2003)
(10-12): Sue Ellen Bridgers, All We Know of Heaven (2003), Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Chris Crutcher, Whale Talk (2003), David Klass, You Don't Know Me (2003), Robert Lipsyte, The Contender (2003), Norma Fox Mazer, When She Was Good (2003), Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (2003)
2004: Joan Bauer (7-9): Joan Bauer, Backwater (2004), Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here (2004), Kevin Crossley- Holland, The Seeing Stone (2004), Karen Hesse, Witness (2004), Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe (2004), Randy Powell, Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star (2004), David Rice, Crazy Loco (2004)
(10-12): Joan Bauer, Backwater (2004), Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road (2004), Carolyn Coman, Many Stones (2004), Sylvia Louise Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars (2004), Paul Fleischman, Whirligig (2004), Jon Katz, Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho (2004), An Na, A Step from Heaven (2004)
2005: Jacqueline Woodson (7-9): Carl Hiaasen, Hoot (2005), Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue (2005), Ben Milanese, Touching Spirit Bear (2005), Louise Plummer, The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman (2005), Mildred D. Taylor, The Land (2005), Jacqueline Woodson, Hush (2005), Jacqueline Woodson, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (1997, 2005)
(10-12): Robert Cormier, Heroes (2005), Chris Crowe, Mississippi Trial, 1955 (2005), Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor (2005), Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters (2005), Mildred D. Taylor, The Land (2005), Jacqueline Woodson, Hush (2005), Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly (2005)
2006: Will Hobbs (7-9): Jeanne DuPrau, City of Ember (2006), Jean Ferris, Love Among the Walnuts (2006), John Fleischman, Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science (2006), Will Hobbs, Far North (2006), Will Hobbs, Jackie's Wild Seattle (2006), Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising (2006)
(10-12): Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light (2006), Jean Ferris, Love Among the Walnuts (2006), John Fleischman, Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science (2006), Will Hobbs, Far North (2006), Will Hobbs, The Maze (2006), Angela Johnson, The First Part Last (2006), E. L. Konigsburg, Silent to the Bone (2006)
2007: Joseph Bruchac (7-9): Joseph Bruchac, Bowman's Store: A Journey to Myself (2007), Joseph Bruchac, Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back (2007), Joseph Bruchac, Sacajawea (2007), Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan, Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist (2007), Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade (2007, 2013), Sara Holbrook, Walking on the Boundaries of Change (2007), Gordon Koran, Son of the Mob (2007), Scott Westerfield,Uglies (2007)
(10-12): Joheph Bruchac, Bowman's Store: A Journey to Myself (2007), Joseph Bruchac, Code Talker (2007), Joseph Bruchac, Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back (2007), Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade (2007, 2013), Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist (2007), Kenneth Oppel, Airborn (2007), Ann Rinaldi, The Coffin Quilt (2007), Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (2007)
2008: Joan Bauer, Naomi Shihab Nye, Chris Crutcher, Christopher Paul Curtis (7-9): Joan Bauer, Thwonk (2008), Chris Crutcher, Sledding Hill (2008), Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy (2003, 2008), Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 (1999, 2008), William Nicholson, Seeker (2008), Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson, Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food (2008), Naomi Shihab Nye, Habibi (2008)
(10-12): Peter Abraham, Down the Rabbit Hole (2008), Joan Bauer, Best Foot Forward (2008), Chris Crutcher, Ironman (1998, 2008), David Lubar, Dunk (2008), William Nicholson, Seeker (2008), Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson, Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food (2008), Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle (2008)
2009: Graham Salisbury (7-9): Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Kids on Strike! (2009), Wendy Mass, A Mango-Shaped Space (2009), Richard Peck, A Long Way from Chicago (2009), Graham Salisbury, Blue Skin of the Sea (2009), Graham Salisbury, Under the Blood-Red Sun (2009), Jordan Sonnenblick, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie (2009, 2014), Kate Thompson, The New Policeman (2009)
(10-12): Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Kids on Strike! (2009), Cinda W. Chima, The Warrior Heir (2009), Carl Deuker, Runner (2009), Helen Frost, Keesha's House (2009), Graham Salisbury, Blue Skin of the Sea (2009), Graham Salisbury, Eyes of the Emperor (2009), Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (2009)
2010: Jennifer Armstrong (7-9): Jennifer Armstrong, Shattered: Stories of Children and War (2010), Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World (2002, 2010), Joan Bauer, Peeled (2010), Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery (2010), Ellen Levine, Freedom's Children (1996, 2010), Janet Taylor Lisle, Black Duck (2010), Neal Shusterman, The Schwa Was Here (2010)
10-12): Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2010), Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World (2010), Jennifer Armstrong with Irene Gut Opdyke, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (2010), Julian Houston: New Boy (2010), Ellen Levine, Freedom's Children (1996, 2010), Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise over Fallujah (2010), Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (2010), John Ritter, Under the Baseball Moon (2010)
2011: Megan Whalen Turner (7-9): Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains (2011), Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games (2011), Carl Hiaasen,Scat (2011), Gary Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars (2011, 2015), Allan Stratton Chanda's Wars (2011), Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia (2011), Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief (2000, 2011)
(10-12): Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains (2011), Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games (2011), E. Lockhart, Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2011), Terry Pratchett, Nation (2011), Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia (2011), Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief (2011), Padma Venkatraman, Climbing the Stairs (2011) 2012: Laurie Halse Anderson (7-9): Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (2012), Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever, 1793 (2012), Rebecca Barnhouse, The Coming of the Dragon (2012), Ellen Booraem, The Unnameables, (2012), David Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie (2012), Gary Paulsen, Soldier's Heart (2012), Pamela S. Turner, The Frog Scientist (2012)
(10-12): Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (2002, 2012), Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted (2012), Rebecca Barnhouse, The Coming of the Dragon (2012), Steve Kluger, My Most Excellent Year (2012), Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox (2012)
2013: Chris Crowe, Chris Crutcher, Sharon M. Draper, Nikki Grimes (7-9): Chris Crowe, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (2013), Chris Crowe, Mississippi Trial, 1955 (2013), Chris Crutcher, Athletic Shorts (2013), Chris Crutcher, King of the Mild Frontier (2013), Sharon M. Draper, The Battle of Jericho (2013), Sharon M. Draper, Fire from the Rock (2013), Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade (2007, 2013)
(10-12): Chris Crowe, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (2013), Chris Crutcher, Deadline (2013), Chris Crutcher, King of the Mild Frontier (2013), Sharon M. Draper, The Battle of Jericho (2013), Sharon M. Draper, Copper Sun (2013), Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade (2007, 2013), Nikki Grimes, Dark Sons (2013)
2014: Jordan Sonnenblick (7-9): Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt (2014), Carl Hiaasen, Flush (2014), Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (2014), James Howe, The Misfits (2014), Jordan Sonnenblick, After Ever After (2014), Jordan Sonnenblick, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie (2009, 2014), Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest (2014)
(10-12): Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (2014), A. S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants (2014), Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Grey (2014), Jordan Sonnenblick, After Ever After (2014), Jordan Sonnenblick, Notes from the Midnight Driver (2014), Francisco X. Stork, Marcelo in the Real World (2014), John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back (2014)
2015: Gary D. Schmidt (7-9): Sharon M. Draper. Out of My Mind (2015), Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer, (2015), Patricia Reilly Giff, Water Street, (2015), Gary Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (2015), Gary Schmidt, Okay for Now (2015), Gary Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars (2011, 2015), Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer, (2015)
(10-12): Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, Dash and Lily's Book of Dares (2015), John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (2015), Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (2015), Gary D. Schmidt, Trouble (2015), Gary Paulsen, Paintings from the Cave (2015), Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2015), Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (2015)
2016: Matt de la Peña (7-9): Holly Black, Doll Bones (2016), Matt de la Peña, I Will Save You (2016), Matt de la Peña, A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Joe Louis (2016), Thanhha Lai, Inside Out and Back Again (2016), Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls (2016), Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (2016), Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7’s (2016), Vince Vawter, Paperboy (2016)
(10-12): Matt de la Peña, I Will Save You (2016), Matt de la Peña, A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Joe Louis (2016), Matt de la Peña, We Were Here (2016), Matthew Quick, Boy 21 (2016), Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver (2016), Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (2016), Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire (2016), Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan (2016) 2017: E. Lockhart, Gene Luen Yang (7-9): Kimberely Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (2017), Margarita Engle, Enchanted Air (2017), K.A. Holt, House Arrest (2017), E. Lockhart, Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2017), E. Lockhart, We Were Liars (2017), Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2017), Gene Luen Yang, The Shadow Hero (2017)
(10-12): E. Lockhart, Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2011, 2017), E. Lockhart, We Were Liars (2017), Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun (2017) , Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places (2017), Marcus Sedgwick, Midwinterblood (2017), Gene Luen Yang, Boxers (2017), Gene Luen Yang, Saints (2017)