·
2004 Medal Winner:The Tale of Despereaux:
Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)
Honor Books:
o
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
o
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story
of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)
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2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
Honor Books:
o
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy
Farmer (Atheneum)
o
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia
Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)
o
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
o
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M.
Martin (Scholastic)
o
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie
S. Tolan (HarperCollins)
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2002
Medal Winner: A
Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
Honor Books:
o
Everything on a Waffle by Polly
Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
o
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn
Nelson (
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2001
Medal Winner: A
Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck
(Dial)
Honor Books:
o
Hope Was Here by Joan
Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
o
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
o
Joey Pigza Loses
Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and
Giroux)
o
The Wanderer by Sharon
Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
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2000
Medal Winner: Bud,
Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
Honor Books:
o
Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)
o
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer
L. Holm (HarperCollins)
o