Author Title Year Keller, Tae When You Trap a Tiger 2021 - Winner Craft, Jerry New Kid 2020 - Winner Medina, Meg Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2019 - Winner Kelly, Erin Entrada Hello, Universe 2018 - Winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2017 - Winner Last Stop on Market Street Last Stop on Market Street 2016 - Winner The Crossover The Crossover 2015 - Winner Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2014 - Winner The One and Only Ivan The One and Only Ivan 2013 - Winner Gantos, Jack Dead End in Norvelt 2012 - Winner Vanderpool, Clare Moon Over Manifest 2011 - Winner Stead, Rebecca When You Reach Me 2010 - Winner Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book 2009 - Winner Schlitz, Laura Amy Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village 2008 - Winner Patron, Susan The Higher Power of Lucky 2007 - Winner Perkins, Lynne Rae Criss Cross 2006 - Winner Kadohata, Cynthia Kira-Kira 2005 - Winner The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, DiCamillo, Kate Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread 2004 - Winner Avi Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2003 - Winner Park, Linda Sue A Single Shard 2002 - Winner Peck, Richard A Year Down Yonder 2001 - Winner Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy 2000 - Winner Sachar, Louis Holes 1999 - Winner Hesse, Karen Out of the Dust 1998 - Winner Konigsburg, E. L. The View from Saturday 1997 - Winner Cushman, Karen The Midwife's Apprentice 1996 - Winner Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons 1995 - Winner Lowry, Lois The Giver 1994 - Winner Rylant, Cynthia Missing May 1993 - Winner Reynolds Naylor, Phyllis Shiloh 1992 - Winner Spinelli, Jerry Maniac Magee 1991 - Winner Lowry, Lois Number the Stars 1990 - Winner Fleischman, Paul Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices 1989 - Winner Freedman, Russell Lincoln: A Photobiography 1988 - Winner Fleischman, Sid The Whipping Boy 1987 - Winner MacLachlan, Patricia Sarah, Plain and Tall 1986 - Winner McKinley, Robin The Hero and the Crown 1985 - Winner Cleary, Beverly Dear Mr. Henshaw 1984 - Winner Voigt, Cynthia Dicey's Song 1983 - Winner Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Willard, Nancy Experienced Travelers 1982 - Winner Paterson, Katherine Jacob Have I Loved 1981 - Winner Blos, Joan W. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 1980 - Winner Raskin, Ellen The Westing Game 1979 - Winner Paterso, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia 1978 - Winner Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1977 - Winner Cooper, Susan The Grey King 1976 - Winner Hamilton, Virginia M. C. Higgins, the Great 1975 - Winner Fox, Paula The Slave Dancer 1974 - Winner Craighead George, Jean Julie of the Wolves 1973 - Winner O'Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1972 - Winner Byars, Betsy Summer of the Swans 1971 - Winner Armstrong, William H. Sounder 1970 - Winner Alexander, Lloyd The High King 1969 - Winner Konigsburg, E. L. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1968 - Winner Hunt, Irene Up a Road Slowly 1967 - Winner Borton de Trevino, Elizabeth I, Juan de Pareja 1966 - Winner Wojciechowska, Maia Shadow of a Bull 1965 - Winner Neville, Emily It's Like This, Cat 1964 - Winner L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time 1963 - Winner George Speare, Elizabeth The Bronze Bow 1962 - Winner O'Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins 1961 - Winner Krumgold, Joseph Onion John 1960 - Winner George Speare, Elizabeth The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1959 - Winner Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie 1958 - Winner Sorensen, Virginia Miracles on Maple Hill 1957 - Winner Latham, Jean Lee Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1956 - Winner DeJong, Meindert The Wheel on the School 1955 - Winner Krumgold, Joseph ...And Now Miguel 1954 - Winner Nolan Clark, Ann Secret of the Andes 1953 - Winner Estes, Eleanor Ginger Pye 1952 - Winner Yates, Elizabeth Amos Fortune, Free Man 1951 - Winner de Angeli, Marguerite The Door in the Wall 1950 - Winner Henry, Marguerite King of the Wind 1949 - Winner Pène du Bois, William The Twenty-One Balloons 1948 - Winner Sherwin Bailey, Carolyn Miss Hickory 1947 - Winner Lenski, Lois Strawberry Girl 1946 - Winner Lawson, Robert Rabbit Hill 1945 - Winner Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain 1944 - Winner Gray, Elizabeth Janet Adam of the Road 1943 - Winner Edmonds, Walter The Matchlock Gun 1942 - Winner Sperry, Armstrong Call It Courage 1941 - Winner Daugherty, James Daniel Boone 1940 - Winner Enright, Elizabeth Thimble Summer 1939 - Winner Seredy, Kate The White Stag 1938 - Winner Sawyer, Ruth Roller Skates 1937 - Winner Brink, Carol Ryrie Caddie Woodlawn 1936 - Winner Shannon (aka Mrs. Elbert Wing), Monica Dobry 1935 - Winner Meigs, Cornelia The Story of the Author of Little Women: Invincible Louisa 1934 - Winner Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze 1933 - Winner Armer, Laura Adams Waterless Mountain 1932 - Winner Coatsworth, Elizabeth The Cat Who Went to Heaven 1931 - Winner Field, Rachel Hitty. Her First Hundred Years 1930 - Winner Kelly, Eric P. Trumpeter of Krakow 1929 - Winner Mukerji, Dhan Gopal Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon 1928 - Winner James, Will Smoky, the Cowhorse 1927 - Winner Chrisman, Arthur B. Shen of the Sea 1926 - Winner Finger, Charles Joseph Tales From Silver Lands 1925 - Winner Hawes, Charles Boardman The Dark Frigate 1924 - Winner Lofting, Hugh The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle 1923 - Winner Van Loon, Hendrik Willem Story of Mankind 1922 - Winner