Louis Sachar, Holes (Frances Foster/Farrar Straus Giroux)

     Honor Book:
          Richard Peck, A Long Way from Chicago (Dial)
 

     1998

       Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (Scholastic)

     Honor Books:
          Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
          Lily's Crossing, Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
          Wringer, Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)
 

     1997

       The View from Saturday, by E.L. Konigsburg

     Honor Books:
          A Girl Named Disaster, by Nancy Farmer
          The Moorchild, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
          The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner
          Belle Prater's Boy, by Ruth White
 

     1996

       The Midwife's Apprentice, by Karen Cushman

     Honor Books:
          What Jamie Saw, by Carolyn Coman
          The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis
          Yolonda's Genius, by Carol Fenner
          The Great Fire, by Jim Murphy
 

     1995

       Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech

     Honor Books:
          Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
          The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, by Nancy Farmer
 

     1994

       The Giver, by Lois Lowry

     Honor Books:
          Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly
          Dragon's Gate, by Laurence Yep
          Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, by Russell Freedman
 

     1993

       Missing May, by Cynthia Rylant

     Honor Books:
          What Hearts, by Bruce Brooks
          The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, by Patricia C.
          McKissack
          Somewhere in the Darkness, by Walter Dean Myers
 

     1992

       Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

     Honor Books:
          Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel, by Avi
          The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, by Russell
          Freedman
 

     1991

       Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

     Honor Book:
          The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
 

     1990

       Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry

     Honor Books:
          Afternoon of the Elves, by Janet Taylor Lisle
          Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind, by Suzanne Fisher Staples
          The Winter Room, by Gary Paulsen
 

     1989

       Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, by Paul Fleischman

     Honor Books:
          In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World, by Virginia
          Hamilton
          Scorpions, by Walter Myers
 

     1988

       Lincoln: A Photobiography, by Russell Freedman

     Honor Books:
          After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
          Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
 

     1987

       The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman

     Honor Books:
          A Fine White Dust, by Cynthia Rylant
          On My Honor, by Marion Dane Bauer
          Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens, by Patricia
          Lauber
 

     1986

       Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan

     Honor Books:
          Commodore Perry in the Land of Shogun, by Rhonda Blumberg
          Dogsong, by Gary Paulsen
 

     1985

       The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley

     Honor Books:
          Like Jake and Me, by Mavis Jukes
          The Moves Make the Man, by Bruce Brooks
          One-Eyed Cat, by Paula Fox
 

     1984

       Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary

     Honor Books:
          The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare
          A Solitary Blue, by Cynthia Voigt
          Sugaring Time, by Kathryn Lasky
          The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, by Bill Brittain
 

     1983

       Dicey's Song, by Cynthia Voigt

     Honor Books:
          The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley
          Doctor DeSoto, by William Steig
          Graven Images, by Paul Fleischman
          Homesick: My Own Story, by Jean Fritz
          Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, by Virginia Hamilton
 

     1982

       A Visit To William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced
           Travelers, by Nancy Willard

     Honor Books:
          Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary
          Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944, by
          Aranka Siegal
 

     1981

       Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson

     Honor Books:
          The Fledgling, by Jane Langton
          A Ring of Endless Light, by Madeline L'Engle
 

     1980

       A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32, by Joan Blos

     Honor Book:
          The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl, by David Kherdian
 

     1979

       The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin

     Honor Book:
          The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson