2004 - Richard Peck. The River Between Us.

2003 - Shelley Pearsall. Trouble Don't Last.

2002 - Mildred Taylor. The Land.

2001 - Janet Taylor Lisle. The Art of Keeping Cool.

2000 - Miriam Bat-Ami. Two Suns in the Sky.

1999 - Harriette Gillem Robinet. Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule.

1998 - Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust.

1997 - Katherine Paterson. Jip, His Story.

1996 - Theodore Taylor. The Bomb.

1995 - Graham Salisbury. Under the Blood-Red Sun.

1994 - Paul Fleischman. Bull Run.

1993 - Michael Dorris. Morning Girl.

1992 - Mary Downing Hahn. Stepping on the Cracks.

1991 - Pieter Van Raven. A Time of Troubles.

1990 - Carolyn Reeder. Shades of Gray.

1989 - Lyll Becerra de Jenkins. The Honorable Prison.

1988 - Patricia Beatty. Charley Skedaddle.

1987 - Scott O'Dell. Streams to the River, River to the Sea.

1986 - Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall.

1985 - Avi. The Fighting Ground.

1984 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Sign of the Beaver. 

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