Mark Twain Awards & Nominees
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2008-2009
- Wright 3- by Blue Balliett
- Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters- by Lesley M. Blume
- Uncharted Waters- by Leslie Bulion
- Million Dollar Putt- by Dan Gutman
- Rules- by Cynthia Lord
- A Small White Scar- by K. A. Nuzum
- Archer's Quest- by Linda Sue Park
- Moon Shadow- by Chris Platt
- Sea of Monsters- by Rick Riordan
- Fairies of Nutfolk Wood.- by Barb Bentman Ullman
- Finest Kind- by Lea Wait
- Counting on Grace- by Elizabeth Winthrop
2007-2008
- Lightning Thief- by Rick Riordan - 1st place
- Double Identity- by Margaret Peterson Haddix - 2nd place
- Cryptid Hunters- by Roland Smith
- Naked Mole Rat Letters- by Mary Amato
- Wing Nut- by J. J. Auch
- Shakespeare's Secret- by Elise Broach
- Do You Know The Monkey Man- by Dori Butler
- Defiance- by Valarie Hobbs
- Gentle's Hollow- by Kerry Madden
- Project Mulberry- by Linda Park
- Deadly Drive- by David Patneaude
- Kingdom Keepers- by Pearson Ridley
- First Boy- by Gary Schmidt
- Jack's Run- by Roland Smith
- Each Little Bird That Sings- by Deborah Wiles
- Black Storm Comin'- by Diane Wilson
- When Ratboy Lived Next Door- by Chris Woodworth
2006-2007
- Funerals and Fly Fishing- by Mary Bartek
- Al Capone Does My Shirts - by Gennifer Choldenko
- The Last Holiday Concert- by Andrew Clements
- Report Card- by Andrew Clements
- Escape to West Berlin- by Marie Dahlberg
- Charlie's Raven- by Jean Craighead George
- The Old Willis Place- by Mary Downing Hahn
- The Truth About Sparrows- by Marian Hale
- Thunder From the Sea- by Joan Hiatt Harlow
- Abduction!.- by Peg Kehret
- Worth- by A. LaFaye
- Hoggee- by Anna Myers
- Thin Wood Walls- by David Patneaude
- The Young Man and the Sea- by Rodman Philbrick
- Yankee Girl - by Mary Ann Rodman
- Becoming Naomi Leon- by Pam Runoz Ryan
- Toe- by Tor Seidler
- Cabin on Trouble Creek- by Jean Van Leeuwen
- Wintering Well- by Lea Wait
- Buttermilk Hill- by Ruth White
2005-2006
- Cold in Summer- by Tracey Barrett
- For Freedom - The Story of a French Spy - by Kimberley Bradley
- Sliding into Home- by Don Butler
- Saving Grace- by Priscilla Cummings
- Under the Same Sky- by Cynthia DeFelice
- City of Ember- by Jeanne DuPrau
- Last Dog on Earth- by Daniel Ehranhaft
- Maggie's Door- by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Gorillas of Gill Park- by Amy Gordon
- Jackie's Wild Seattle- by Will Hobbs
- Mountain Solo- by Janette Ingold
- A Simple Gift- by Nancy Ruth Patterson
- How Angel Peterson Got His Name- by Gary Paulson
- Ghost Girl - A Blue Ridge Mountain Story - by Delia Ray
- The Boy Who Saved Baseball- by John Ritter
- The Haunting of Swain's Fancy- by Brenda Seabrooke
- The Impossible Journey- by Gloria Whelan
- Tadpole- by Ruth White
- The Ravenmaster's Secret- by Elvira Woodruff
- Crandall's Castle- by Betty Ren Wright
2004-2005
- Crispin: The Cross of Lead- by Avi
- Stand Tall- by Joan Bauer
- Wenny Has Wings- by Janet Lee Carey
- Week in the Woods- by Andrew Clements
- Ruby Holler- by Sharon Creech
- The Spirit and Gilly Bucket- by Maurine Dahlberg
- Where the Ground Meets the Sky- by Jacqueline Davies
- Darby- by Jonathon S. Fuqua
- Pictures of Hollis Woods- by Patricia Reilly Giff
- The Secret Within- by Theresa Golding
- Hoot- by Carl Hiaasen
- Wild Man Island- by Will Hobbs
- Stranger Next Door- by Peg Kehret
- The Victory Garden- by Lee Kochenderfer
- When My Name Was Keoko- by Linda Sue Park
- Trouble Don't Last- by Shelley Pearsall
- Riding the Flume- by Patricia C. Pfitsch
- Undercurrents- by Willo D. Roberts
- Loser- by Jerry Spinelli
- Surviving the Applewhites- by Stephanie S. Tolan
2003-2004
- Anna Casey's Place in the World- by Adrian Fogelin
- Belle Teal- by Ann M. Martin
- The Christmas Barn- by C. L. Davis
- Dancing in the Cadillac Light- by Kimberly Willis Holt
- Daniel's Walk- by Michael Spooner
- Don't You Know There's a War On- by Avi
- Down the Yukon- by Will Hobbs
- Fair Weather- by Richard Peck
- The Gadget- by Paul Zindel
- The Good Dog- by Avi
- A Long Way Home- by Nancy Graff
- Love, Ruby Lanvender- by Deborah Wiles
- Mountain Pose- by Nancy Hope Wilson
- Parsifal's Page- by Gerald Morris
- Pearl Harbor Warriors- by Dorinda Nicholson
- The School Story- by Andrew Clements
- A Single Shard- by Linda Sue Park
- Touching Spirit Bear- by Ben Mikaelsen
- Zach's Lie- by Roland Smith
2002-2003
- Because of Winn-Dixie- by Kate DeCamillo
- Color Me Dark:The Diary Of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North- by Patricia McKissack
- Coyote Autumn- by Bill Wallace
- Dear Mrs. Ryan, You're Ruining My Life- by Jennifer Jones
- Dream Soul- by Lawrence Yep
- Ereth's Birthday- by Avi
- Fever 1793- by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Gib and the Gray Ghost- by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Gracie's Girl- by Ellen Wittlingert
- The Graduation of Jake Moon- by Barbara Park
- Holding Up the Earth- by Dianne E. Gray
- Jake's Orphan- by Peggy Brooke
- My Brother Made Me Do It- by Peg Kehret
- No More Dead Dogs- by Gordon Korman
- Nory Ryan's Song- by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Play to the Angel- by Maurine F. Dahlberg
- Torn Thread- by Anne Isaacs
- The Wanderer- by Sharon Creech
- When Mack Came Back- by Brad Strickland
- A Year Down Yonder- by Richard Peck
2001-2002
- Backwater- by Joan Bauer
- Through My Eyes- by Ruby Bridges
- Blackwater- by Eve Bunting
- Nowhere To Call Home- by Cynthia DeFelice
- Doye Song- by Kristine L. Franklin
- Dork In Disguise- by Carol Gorman
- The Starplace- by Vicki Grove
- Jason's Gold- by Will Hobbs
- Paperboy- by Isabelle Holland
- Our Only May Amelia- by Jennifer L. Holm
- When Zachary Beaver Came To Town- by Kimberly Willis Holt
- I'm Not Sure Who You Think I Am- by Peg Kehret
- Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories Of Adopted Strays- by Peg Kehret
- Dave At Night- by Gail Carson Levine
- You're A Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman- by Claudia Mills
- Framed In Fire- by David Patneaude
- Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story- by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Speed Of Light- by Sybil Rosen
- Ordinary Miracles- by Stephanie S. Tolan
- Figuring Out Frances- by Gina Pardo-Willner
2000-2001
- Lost in the War- by Nancy Antle
- The Shakespeare Stealer- by Gary Blackwood
- Sooner- by Patrica Calvert
- Stealing Freedom- by Elisa Carbone
- The Ghost of Fossil Glen- by Cynthia Defelice
- Bandit's Moon- by Sid Fleischman
- Reaching Dustin- by Vicki Grove
- A Voice from the Border- by Pamela Smith Hill
- The Maze- by Will Hobbs
- Faraway Summer- by Johanna Hurwitz
- The Great Turkey Walk- by Kathleen karr
- The Empress of Elsewhere- by Theresa Nelson
- A Long Way from Chicago- by Richard Peck
- Holes- by Louis Sachar
- Love From Your Friend, Hannah- by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
- Sasquatch- by Roland Smith
- Gib Rides Home- by Zipha Keatley Snyder
- A Traitor Among Us- by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
- If I Forget, You Remember- by Carol Lynch Williams
- Dear Austin- by Elvira Woodruff
1999-2000
- Journey To Nowhere- by Mary Jane Auch
- Track in the Snow- by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
- Gratefully Yours- by Jane Buchanan
- Wolf Shadows- by Mary Casanova
- Chasing Redbird- by Sharon Creech
- Lone Wolf- by Kristine L. Franklin
- Lily's Crossing- by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie- by Kristiana Gregory
- I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly- by Joyce Hansen
- My Brother, My Enemy- by Madge Harrah
- Out of the Dust- by Karen Hesse
- Ella Enchanted- by Gail Levine
- Run Away Home- by Patricia McKissack
- Jubilee Journey- by Carolyn Meyer
- Losers, Inc.- by Claudia Mills
- Saving Shiloh- by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Treasures in the Dust- by Tracey Porter
- Jaguar- by Roland Smith
- Turtle on a Fence Post- by June Rae Wood
1998-1999 NOMINEES:
- Family Tree- by Katherine Ayres
- Sticks- by Joan Bauer
- Purely Rosie Pearl- by Patricia Cochrane
- The Ballad of Lucy Whipple- by Karen Cushman
- The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker- by Cynthia DeFelice
- Following My Own Footsteps- by Mary Downing Hahn
- The Music of Dolphins- by Karen Hesse
- Far North- by Will Hobbs
- The Window- by Jeanette Ingold
- Earthquake Terror- by Peg Kehret
- Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio- by Peg Kehret
- The View from Saturday- by E. L. Konigsburg
- Shiloh Season- by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Search for the Shadowman- by Joan Lowery Nixon
- Jip: His Story- by Katherine Paterson
- Brian's Winter- by Gary Paulsen
- Crash- by Jerry Spinelli
- Belle Prater's Boy- by Ruth White
- Caleb's Choice- by G. Clifton Wisler
PAST WINNERS AND NOMINEES!!!
1997-1998 Titanic Crossing by Barbara Williams
Nominees:
- Youn Hee and Me- by C. S. Adler
- Poppy- by Avi
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham- by Paul C. Curtis
- An Island Far From Home- by John Donahue
- Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd- by Mame Farrell
- Fig Pudding- by Ralph J. Fletcher
- Sound the Jubilee- by Sandra Forrester
- There's an Owl in the Shower- by Jean Craighead George
- The Crystal Garden- by Vicki Grove
- Possibles- by Vaunda M. Nelson
- Mick Harte Was Here- by Barbara Park
- Lost in Cyberspace- by Richard Peck
- The Haunting of Holroyd Hill- by Brenda Seabrooke
- The Trespassers- by Silpha Keatley Snyder
- The Well- by Mildred D. Taylor
- Real Christmas This Year- by Karen Williams
- Mr. Lincoln's Drummer- by Clifton G. Wisler
- When Pigs Fly- by June Rae Wood
- Out of the Dark- by Betty Ren Wright
1996-1997 Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
Nominees:
- A Question of Trust- by Marion Dane Bauer
- Walk Two Moons- by Sharon Creech
- Julie- by Jean Craighead George
- Uncle Daney's Way- by Jessie Haas
- The Captive- by Joyce Hansen
- Phoenix Rising- by Karen Hesse
- Night of Fear- by Peg Kehret
- The Fear Place- by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- A Dangerous Promise- by Joan Lowery Nixon
- Shadowmaker- by Joan Lowery Nixon
- Mr. Tucket- by Gary Paulsen
- Under the Blood-Red Sun- by Graham Salisbury
- The Circlemaker- by Maxine Rose Schur
- Cat Running- by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Who's There?- by Stephanie Tolan
- True Friends- by Bill Wallace
- Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail- by Elvira Woodruff
- The Magnificent Mummy Maker- by Elvira Woodruff
1995-1996 The Ghosts of Mercy Manor by Betty Ren Wright
Nominees:
- My Name is Brain Brian by Jeanne Betancourt
- Just Call Me Stupid by Tom Birdseye
- Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
- Light on Hogback Hill by Cynthia DeFelice
- Jacob's Rescue by Malka Drucker
- Western Wind by Paula Fox
- Rimwalkers by Vicki Grove
- Ali and the Golden Eagle by Wayne Grove
- Wrapped in a Riddle by Sharon Heisel
- Baby by Patricia MacLachlan
- The Sunita Experiment by Mitali Perkins
- What Are We Going to Do About David? by Willo Davis Roberts
- Fool's Gold by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Timothy of the Cay by Theodore Taylor
- Twin in the Tavern by Barbara Wallace
- Never Say Quit by Bill Wallace
- Battle for the Castle by Elizabeth Winthrop
- Jericho's Journey by Clifton G. Wisler
- The Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake by Elvira Woodruff
1994-1995 The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood
Nominees:
- Blue Heron by Avi
- Squashed by Joan Bauer
- The Clock by Christopher and James Collier
- Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis
- Kindertransport by Olga Drucker
- Jim Ugly by Sid Fleischman
- Take Care of My Girl by Patricia Hermes
- The Original Freddie Ackerman by Hadley Irwin
- Horror at the Haunted House by Peg Kehret
- Attaboy, Sam! by Lois Lowry
- Mother Murphy by Colleen McKenna
- The Dark Thirty by Colleen McKenna
- The Haymeadow by Gary Paulsen
- Liars by P. J. Petersen
- The Keepsake Chest by Katherine Wilson Precek
- Jo and the Bandits by Willo Davis Roberts
- Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
- When the Road Ends by Jean Thesman
- 'Dear Napoleon, I Know You're Dead, But...' by Elvira Woodruff
1993-1994 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Nominees:
- Sharing Susan by Eve Bunting
- Wanted...Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars
- Strider by Beverly Cleary
- Randall's Wall by Carol Fenner
- Monkey Island by Paula Fox
- Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
- Mama, Let's Dance by Patricia Hermes
- Kool Ada by Sheila Klass
- Journey by Patricia MacLachlan
- The Ghost of Lost Island by Liza Ketchum Murrow
- Reluctantly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
- Finding Buck McHenry by Alfred Slote
- The Pennywhistle Tree by Doris Buchanan Smith
- Song of the Gargoyle by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- There's a Girl in my Hammerlock by Jerry Spinelli
- Tuck Triumphant by Theodore Taylor
- A Place to Claim as Home by Patricia Willis
1992-1993 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Nominees:
- Kidnapping Devin Kowalski by Mary Jane Auch
- True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
- Bingobrown, Gypsy Lover by Betsy Byars
- The Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa by Sheila Gordon
- The Fastest Friend in the West by Vicki Grove
- Hummer by Linda Gruenberg
- Littlejim by Gloria Houston
- Hugh Glass, Mountain Man by Robert M. McClung
- Take a Chance, Gramps! by Jean Davies
- Canyons by Gary Paulsen
- Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
- Throw a Hungry Loop by Dona Schenker
- The Trading Game by Alfred Slote
- The Squeaky Wheel by Robert Kimmel Smith
- Libby on Wednesday by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Happily After All by Laura C. Stevenson
- Mississippi Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor
- Come Next Spring by Alana White
- The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore
1991-1992 The Doll in the Garden by Mary Downing Hahn
Nominees:
- The Lump in the Middle by C. S. Adler
- Sarah and Me and the Lady from the Sea by Patricia Beatty
- The Ghost Children by Eve Bunting
- My Daniel by Pam Conrad
- Mazemaker by Catherine Dexter
- The Riddle of Penncroft Farm by Dorthea Jensen
- Nightmare Mountain by Peg Kehret
- Number The Stars by Lois Lowry
- Fire in the Heart by Lisa Ketchum Murrow
- My Mother Got Married and Other Disasters by Barbara Park
- Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulsen
- Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
- What Could Go Wrong? by Willo Davis Roberts
- Who Invited the Undertaker by Ivy Ruckman
- Skeeter by K. Smith
- Bobby Baseball by Robert K. Smith
- Grasshopper Summer by Ann Turner
- Danger in Quicksand Swamp by Bill Wallace
- The Seer by G. Clifton Wisler
1990-1991 All About Sam by Lois Lowry
Nominees:
- Eddie's Blue-Winged Dragon by C. S. Adler
- Pick of the Litter by Mary Jane Auch
- Is Anybody There? by Eve Bunting
- The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown by Betsy Byars
- Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel
- Bood-Bye, My Wishing Star by Vicki Grove
- December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn
- No Strings Attached by Kristi D. Holl
- Her Own Song by Ellen Howard
- Yours Truly, Shirley by Ann M. Martin
- Maudie in the Middle by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor & Lura S. Reynolds
- Caught in the Act by Joan Lowery Nixon
- In the Face of Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon
- Megan's Island by Willo Davis Roberts
- The Sunday Doll by Mary Francis Shura
- A Friend Like That by Alfred Slote
- The Alexandra Ingredient by Linda Leopold Strauss
- Beauty by Bill Wallace
- The Pike River Phantom by Betty Ren Wright
1989-1990 There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
Nominees:
- Cry Uncle! by Mary Jane Auch
- The Witching of Ben Wagner by Mary Jane Auch
- Charlie Pippin by Candy Boyd
- The Man Who Sang in the Dark by E. Clifford
- An Enemy Among Them by Deborah H. DeFord
- Cady by Lillian Eige
- Tallahassee Higgins by Mary Downing Hahn
- Kim/Kimi by Hadley Irwin
- Anastasia's Chosen Career by Lois Lowry
- Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry
- Beetles, Lightly Toasted by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- A Family Apart by Joan Nixon
- Kid in the Red Jacket by Barbara Park
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Sister of the Quints by Stella Pevsner
- Don't Call Me Toad by Mary Francis Shura
- Leave It To Christy by Pamela C. Swallow
- The King of Hearts' Heart by Sam Teague
- Red Dog by Bill Wallace
1988-1989 Sixth Grade Sleepover by Eve Bunting
Nominees:
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- The Blossoms Meet the Vulture Lady by Betsy Byars
- Rasco and the Rats of Nimh by Jane Leslie Conly
- Borrowed Summer by Marion Walker Doren
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
- One Thing for Sure by David Gifaldi
- The Secret Life of Dilly McBean by Dorothy Haas
- You've Been Away all Summer by Sheila Hayes
- A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner
- Middle School Blues by Lou Kassem
- The Luck of the Miss L by Lee Kingman
- Volcano by Patricia Lauber
- The Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick by Kate McMullan
- With You and Without You by Ann Martin
- Carrots and Miggle by Ardath Mayhar
- The 25 Cent Miracle by Theresa Nelson
- The Josie Gambit by Mary Francis Shura
- Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walker
- The Antrian Messenger by G. Clifton Wisler
1987-1988 Baby-Sitting is a Dangerous Job by Willo Davis Roberts
Nominees:
- Easton Stanley and the Mind Control Experiment by Daivd A. Adler
- Who Knew There'd Be Ghosts? by Bill Brittain
- Stay Away From Simon! by Carol Carrick
- Why Me? by Ellen Conford
- Toothpick by Kenneth E. Ethridge
- Shadows on the Pond by Alison Cragin Herzig
- The Rose Beyond the Wall by Kristi D. Holl
- Invisible Lissa by Natalie Honeycutt
- Blackberries in the Dark by Mavis Jukes
- Switcharound by Lois Lowry
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
- Whisper Goodbye by Dorothy N. Morrison
- Me, My Goat, and My Sister's Wedding by Stella Pevsner
- A Blue-Eyed Daisy by Cynthia Rylant
- The Search for Grissi by Mary Francis Shura
- The Explorer of Barkham Street by Mary Stolz
- Shadow on the Snow by Bill Wallace
- The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
- Christina's Ghost by Betty Ren Wright
1986-1987 The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
Nominees:
- A Home is to Share...And Share...And Share...by Judie Angell
- Ghost Cat by Beverly Butler
- Pets, Vets, and Marty Howard by Joan Carris
- If Wishes were Horses by Jean S. Doty
- One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
- Your Former Friend, Matthew by Lou Ann Gaeddert
- Foxy by Helen Griffith
- The Shepherd Moon by H. M. Hoover
- Hot and Cold Summer by Johanna Hurwitz
- Island of the Loons by Dayton O. Hyde
- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
- Night Cry by Phyllis R. Naylor
- Magnum Fault by Raboo Rogers
- Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
- The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates by Susan Shreve
- Blair's Nightmare by Zilpha D. Snyder
- Courage at Indian Deep by Jane R. Thomas
- The Man in the Woods by Rosemary Wells
- Buffalo Moon by Clifton S. Wisler
1985-1986 The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
Nominees:
- Sharack's Crossing by Avi
- The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
- What A Wimp! by Carol Carrick
- Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
- War Comes to Willy Freeman by James L. Collier & Christopher Collier
- The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz
- Max and Me and the Time Machine by Gery Greer & Rob Ruddick
- Daphne's Book by Mary Downing Hahn
- Who Will Take Care of Me? by Patricia Hermes
- Just Like a Real Family by Kristi Holl
- The Wild Children by Felice Holman
- A Night Without Stars by James Howe
- The Griffin Legacy by Jan Klaveness
- Tornado by Hilary Milton
- Beanpole by Barbara Park
- Chester Cricket's New Home by George Selden
- The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare
- Cat Walk by Mary Stolz
- A Time to Fly Free by Stephanie Tolan
1984-1985 A Bundle of Sticks by Pat Rhodes Mauser
Nominees:
- Footsteps on the Stairs by Carole S. Adler
- Just Like Jenny by Sandy Asher
- Before the Lark by Irene Bennett Brown
- The Animal, The Vegatable, and John D. Jones by Betsy Byars
- The Stone Pony by Patricia Calvert
- Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
- Joel: Growing Up a Farm Man by Patricia Demuth
- The Great Bamboozlement by Jane Flory
- Some Glad Morning by Faye Gibbons
- The Gift of the Pirate Queen by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Circle of Fire by William H. Hooks
- Switching Tracks by Dean Hughes
- Tough-Luck Karen by Johanna Hurwitz
- Anastasia At Your Service by Lois Lowry
- The Ghost of Austwick Manor by Reby McDonald
- When The Wind Blows Hard by Denise Orenstein
- IOU's by Ouida Sebestyen
- Lost In The Devil's Desert by Gloria Skurzynski
- The Secret Window by Betty Wright
1983-1984 The Secret Life of the Underwear Champ by Betty Miles
Nominees:
- The Cat That Was Left Behind by Carole S. Adler
- Westmark by Lloyd Alexander
- A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
- The Cybil War by Betsy Byers
- The Sign of the Owl by Deborah Chester
- The Last Run by Mark J. Harris
- Moon & Me by Hadley Irwin
- My Mother the Mayor, Maybe by Pat Kibbe
- Summer of the Green Star by Robert C. Lee
- Anastasia Again! by Lois Lowry
- The Money Room by Eloise McGraw
- Save Queen of Sheba by Louise Moeri
- What Do You Do When Your Mouth Won't Open? by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Happles and Cinnamunger by Mary F. Shura
- Last Was Lloyd by Doris B. Smith
- The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor
- The Comeback Dog by Jane R. Thomas
- Which Way Courage by Eiveen Weiman
- Hannah's Flood by Rhoda Wooldridge
1982-1983 The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
Nominees:
- In Our House Scott Is My Brother by C. S. Adler
- The Journey of the Shadow Bairns by Margaret Anderson
- That's One Ornery Orphan by Patricia Beatty
- Part-Time Boy by Elizabeth Billington
- Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch
- I Get There by Candlelight by Jean Doty
- A Morgan for Melinda by Doris Gates
- Son For a Day by Corinne Gerson
- The Boy Who Wanted A Family by Shirley Gordon
- Jemmy by Jon Hassler
- Now Is Not Too Late by Isabelle Holland
- Arthur, For the Very First Time by Patricia MacLachlan
- Blind Flight by Hilary Milton
- Sarah Bishop by Scott O'Dell
- Just Between Us by Susan Pfeffer
- Blatherskite by Marion Potter
- Blind Outlaw by Glen Rounds
- Home is Where They Take You In by Brenda Seabrooke
- Chester by Mary Francis Shura
1981-1982 The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot by Marian T. Place
Nominees:
- Magic of the Glits by C. S. Adler
- The Silver Coach by C. S. Adler
- Night Journeys by Avi
- Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library by E. Clifford
- Safe as the Grave by C. Cooney
- The Worst Hound Around by Cena Draper
- Outside Shooter by Thomas Dygard
- Wesley Paul, Marathon Runner by Julianna Fogel
- Grey Cloud by C. Graeber
- Prisoners at the Kitchen Table by B. Holland
- Secret of Van Rink's Cellar by Beverly Lee
- Sandy and the Rock Star by Walt Morey
- S. S. Valentine by Terry Phelan
- Words by Heart by O. Sebestyen
- The Barkley Street Six-Pack by Mary F. Shura
- Mr. Wolf and Me by Mary F. Shura
- Foster Mary by Celia Stang
- An Orphan for Nebraska by C. Talbot
- Davey, Come Home by Margaret Teibl
- Time to Keep Silent by Gloria Whelan
1980-1981 Soup for President by Robert Newton Peck
Nominees:
- The Young Boys Gone by Marian Archer
- Conquista! by Clyde Robert Bulla
- Wilkin's Ghost by Robert Burch
- The Rocking Chair Rebellion by E. Clifford
- The Bassumtyte Treasure by jane L. Curry
- North of Danger by Dale Fife
- Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman
- Between Friends by Sheila Garrigue
- Joshua, the Czar, and the Chicken Bone Wish by Barbara Girion
- The Wind is Not a River by Arnold Griese
- The Bears Upstairs by Dorothy Haas
- The Diary of the Strawbridge Place by Helen P. Jacob
- The Witch of Glen Gowrie by William MacKellar
- The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars by Robert Newman
- The Hideaway Summer by Beverly Renner
- A Secret Friend by Marilyn Sachs
- Gray Ghosts of Taylor Ridge by Mary Francis Shura
- My Trip to Alpha 1 by Alfred Slote
- Rachel and Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
1979-1980 The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
Nominees:
- The Eyes of the Amaryllis by Natalie Babbitt
- Andrew and the Alchemist by Barbara Byfield
- Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
- And This is Laura by Ellen Conford
- Warton's Christmas Eve Adventure by Russell E. Erickson
- Me and The Man on the Moon-Eyed Horse by Sid Fleischman
- Phoebe and the General by Judith Griffin
- Betsy's Play School by Caroline Hayward
- Our Snowman Had Olive Eyes by Charlotte Herman
- Frozen Fire: A Tale of Courage by James Houston
- Bargain Bride by Evelyn Lampman
- A Summer to Die by Lori Lowry
- A Horse for XYZ by Louise Moeri
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck
- The Girl Who Had No Name by Bernice Rabe
- The Great Rat Island Adventure by Charlene Talbot
- Hawkins by Barbara Wallace
- Wally by Judie Wolkoff
1978-1979 The Champion of Merrimack County by Roger Drury
Nominees:
- Wiley and the Hairy Man by Molly Garrett Bang
- By Crumbs, It's Mine by Patricia Beatty
- In Her Father's Footsteps by Bianca Bradbury
- Toliver's Secret by Ester Wood Brady
- The Hockey Girls by Scott Corbett
- The Crumb by Jean Slaughter Doty
- McBroom Tells A Lie by Sid Fleischman
- Golden Venture by Jane Flory
- Will you Sign Here, John Hancock by Jean Fritz
- All the Children were Sent Away by Sheila Garrigue
- Beat the Turtle Drum by Constance Greene
- The Potlatch Family by Evelyn Lampman
- Zia by Scott O'Dell
- The Journey Back by Johanna Reiss
- Mr. Yowder and the Lion Roar Capsules by Glen Rounds
- By George, Bloomers by Judith St. George
- Canada Geese by Jack Denton Scott
- The Amazing Bone by William Steig
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
- Connie's New Eyes by Bernard Wolf
1977-1978 Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
Nominees:
- Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Bulla
- Dust of the Earth by Vera Cleaver
- The Luck of Pokey Bloom by Ellen Conford
- The Grey King by Susan Cooper
- Strega Nona by Tomie DePaola
- Bert Breen's Barn by Walter D. Edmonds
- Where Was Patrick henry on the 29th of May? by Jean Fritz
- About Owls by May Garelick
- The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon B. Mathis
- The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck
- View From the Cherry Tree by Willo D. Roberts
- Dorrie's Book by Marilyn Sachs
- Kelly's Creek by Doris B. Smith
- Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal by Theordore Taylor
- Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
1976-1977 The Ghost on Saturday Night by Sid Fleischman
Nominees:
- How Many Miles to Sundown by Patricia Beatty
- After the Goat Man by Betsy Byars
- I Tell A Lie Every So Often by Bruce Clements
- Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen
- My Brother Sam is Dead by James L. Collier
- Me and the Terrible Two by Ellen Conford
- Paintbox on the Frontier by Alberta Constant
- A Toad for Tuesday by Russell Erickson
- Sundance Coyote by Dr. Michael Fox
- Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams by Jean Fritz
- This Time, Tempe Wick? by Patricia Gauch
- Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene
- The Ears of Louis by Constance Greene
- That Crazy April by Lila Perl
- A Billion for Boris by Mary Rodgers
- Harry Cat's Pet Puppy by George Selden
- Nate the Great Goes Undercover by Marjorie Sharmat
- The Truth About Stone Hollow by Zilpha Snyder
- Teetoncey by Theodore Taylor
1975-1976 The Home Run Trick by Scott Corbett
Nominees:
- An American Ghost by Chester Aaron
- Dexter by Clyder Robert Bulla
- Search for the Crescent Moon by Ethel Clifford
- The Wayfarer's Tree by Anne Colver
- Felicia the Critic by Ellen Conford
- Bear Mouse by Berniece Freschet
- At the Mouth of the Luckiest River by Arnold A. Griese
- Jack Jouett's Ride by Gail E. Haley
- Children of Morrow by H. M. Hoover
- A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by K. L. Konigsburg
- Roanoke by Sonia Levitin
- The House on Parchment Street by Patricia A. McKillip
- Poor Richard in France by F. N. Monjo
- In Search of a Sandhill Crane by Keith Robertson
- Pocket Full of Seeds by Marilyn Sachs
- Me, Cholay and Company by Don Schellie
- The Real Thief by William Steig
- The Tavern at the Ferry by Edwin Tunis
- Tinker and the Medicine Man: The Story of a Navajo Boy by Bernard Wolf
1974-1975 How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Nominees:
- The Cat who Wished to be a Man by Lloyd Alexander
- No Ducks in our Bathtub by Martha Alexander
- At the Center of the World by Betty Baker
- First Crop by Gertrude Bell
- The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars
- The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron
- Girls are Equal Too by Dale B. Carlson
- Me Too by Vera and Bill Cleaver
- She, The Adventuress by Dorothy Crayder
- Under the Haystack by Patricia A. Engebrecht
- Gorilla, Gorilla by Carol Fenner
- The Wolf by Michael Fox
- And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz
- Isabelle the Itch by Constance C. Greene
- Clay Pot Boy by Cynthia Jameson
- A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
- Rass by Berniece Rabe
- The Truth About Mary Rose by Marilyn Sachs
- The Genie of Sutton Place by George Selden
- A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith
- A House on Liberty Street by Mary Hays Weik
1973-1974 It's A Mile From Here to Glory by Robert C. Lee
Nominees:
- When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor
- Only the Names Reain by Alex W. Bealer
- It's Not the End of the World by Judy Blume
- The Friends of the Loony lake by Frank Bonham
- Doodle and the Go-Cart by Robert Burch
- The House of Wings by Betsy Byars
- Me and the Eggman by Eleanor Clymer
- The Red Room Riddle by Scott Corbett
- The Ice Ghosts Mystery by Jane Louise Curry
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean C. George
- For Ma and Pa on the Oregon Trail by Wilma P. Hays
- San Domingo: The Medicine Hat by Marguerite Henry
- The Secret of the Crazy Quilt by Florence Hightower
- Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack by M. E. Kerr
- The Magic Moth by Virginia Lee
- The Knee-High Man and Other Tales by Julius Lester
- The Treasure of Topo-El-Bampo by Scott O'Dell
- The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
- Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
- Blackbriar by William Sleator
- The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
1972-1973 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
Nominees:
- The King's Fountain by Lloyd Alexander
- Goody Hall by Natalie Babbitt
- Feldman Fieldmouse by Nathaniel Benchley
- Joseph, The Dreamer by Clyde Robert Bulla
- A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor Cameron
- The Spider, The Cave and the Pottery Bowl by Eleanor Clymer
- Jingo Django by Sid Fleischman
- All Upon a Stone by Jean C. George
- The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
- The Trees Stand Shining by Hettie Jones
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Kate by Jean Little
- Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
- The Vicksburg Veteran by F. N. Monjo
- Deeptrouble by Walt Morey
- The Almost Year by Florence Randall
- The Bear's House by Marilyn Sachs
- The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
- By the Highway Home by Mary Stolz
- Chipmunks on the Doorstep by Edwin Tunis
1971-1972 Sounder by William Armstrong
Nominees:
- Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbit
- Before You Came This Way by Byrd Baylor
- Mystery of Stonehenge by Franklyn M. Branley
- Come Along by Rebecca Caudill
- Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera & William Cleaver
- Weathermonger by Peter Dickinson
- Year of Columbus 1492 by Genevieve Foster
- King's Falcon by Paula Fox
- Portrait of Ivan by Paula Fox
- Cavalcade of Goblins by Alan Garner
- Knights and Armor by Shirley Glubok
- Our Eddie by Sulsmith Ish-kishor
- About the B'Nai Bagels by E. L. Konigsburg
- America's Endangered Wildlife by George Laycock
- One to Grow On by Jean Little
- Odd Destiny by Milton Lomask
- Books of Ghosts and Goblins by Ruth Manning-Sanders
- Goodbye, Dove Square by Janet McNeill
- Tucker's Countryside by George Selden
- Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
- Trouble in the Jungle by John Rowe Townsend
- Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
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