Miracles on Maple Hill, by Virginia Sorensen

     Honor Books:
          Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson
          The House of Sixty Fathers, by Meindert DeJong
          Mr. Justice Holmes, by Clara Ingram Judson
          The Corn Grows Ripe, by Dorothy Rhoads
          Black Fox of Lorne, by Marguerite de Angeli
 

     1956

       Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham

     Honor Books:
          The Secret River, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
          The Golden Name Day, by Jennie Linquist
          Men, Microscopes, and Living Things, by Katherine Shippen
 

     1955

       The Wheel on the School, by Meindert DeJong

     Honor Books:
          The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Alice Dalgliesh
          Banner in the Sky, by James Ullman
 

     1954

       ... And Now Miguel, by Joseph Krumgold

     Honor Books:
          All Alone, by Claire Hutchet Bishop
          Shadrach, by Meindert DeJong
          Hurry Home, Candy, by Meindert DeJong
          Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot, by Clara Ingram Judson
          Magic Maize, by Mary and Conrad Buff
 

     1953

       Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

     Honor Books:
          Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
          Moccasin Trail, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
          Red Sails to Capri, by Ann Weil
          The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, by Alice Dalgliesh
          Birthdays of Freedom, Volume 1, by Genevieve Foster
 

     1952

       Ginger Pye, by Eleanor Estes

     Honor Books:
          Americans Before Columbus, by Elizabeth Baity
          Minn of the Mississippi, by Holling C. Holling
          The Defender, by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
          The Light At Tern Rock, by Julia Sauer
          The Apple and the Arrow, by Mary and Conrad Buff
 

     1951

       Amos Fortune, Free Man, by Elizabeth Yates

     Honor Books:
          Better Known As Johnny Appleseed, by Mabel Leigh Hunt
          Gandhi, Fighter Without A Sword, by Jeanette Eaton
          Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People, by Clara Ingram Judson
          The Story of Appleby Capple, by Anne Parrish
 

     1950

       The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite de Angeli

     Honor Books:
          Tree of Freedom, by Rebecca Caudill
          The Blue Cat of Castle Town, by Catherine Coblentz
          Kildee House, by Rutherford Montgomery
          George Washington, by Genevieve Foster
          Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin, by
          Walter and Marion Havighurst
 

     1949

       King of the Wind, by Marguerite Henry

     Honor Books:
          Seabird, by Holling C. Holling
          Daughter of the Mountains, by Louise Rankin
          My Father's Dragon, by Ruth S. Gannett
          Story of the Negro, by Arna Bontemps
 

     1948

       The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pène du Bois

     Honor Books:
          Pancakes-Paris, by Claire Hutchet Bishop
          Li Lun, Lad of Courage, by Carolyn Treffinger
          The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, by Catherine
          Besterman
          The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories, by Harold
          Courlander
          Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry
 

     1947

       Miss Hickory, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

     Honor Books:
          Wonderful Year, by Nancy Barnes
          Big Tree, by Mary and Conrad Buff
          The Heavenly Tenants, by William Maxwell
          The Avion My Uncle Flew, by Cyrus Fisher
          The Hidden Treasure of Glaston, by Eleanore Jewett
 

     1946

       Strawberry Girl, by Lois Lenski

     Honor Books:
          Justin Morgan Had A Horse, by Marguerite Henry
          The Moved-Outers, by Florence Crannell Means
          Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear, by Christine Weston
          New Found World, by Katherine Shippen
 

     1945

       Rabbit Hill, by Robert Lawson

     Honor Books:
          The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes
          The Silver Pencil, by Alice Dalgliesh
          Abraham Lincoln's World, by Genevieve Foster
          Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams, by Jeanette Eaton
 

     1944

       Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes

     Honor Books:
          These Happy Golden Years, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
          Fog Magic, by Julia Sauer
          Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
          Mountain Born, by Elizabeth Yeats
 

     1943

       Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Elizabeth Gray Vining)

     Honor Books:
          The Middle Moffat, by Eleanor Estes
          Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt
 

     1942

       The Matchlock Gun, by Walter D. Edmonds

     Honor Books:
          Little Town On the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
          George Washington's World, by Genevieve Foster
          Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison, by Lois Lenski
          Down Ryton Water, by Eva Roe Gaggin
 

     1941

       Call it Courage, by Armstrong Sperry

     Honor Books:
          Blue Willow, by Doris Gates
          Young Mac of Fort Vancouver, by Mary Jane Carr
          The Long Winter, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
          Nansen, by Anna Gertrude Hall
 

     1940

       Daniel Boone, by James Daugherty

     Honor Books:
          The Singing Tree, by Kate Seredy
          Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz, by Mabel
          Robinson
          By the Shores of Silver Lake, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
          Boy With A Pack, by Stephen W. Meader
 

     1939

       Thimble Summer, by Elizabeth Enright

     Honor Books:
          Nino, by Valenti Angelo
          Mr. Popper's Penguins, by Richard and Florence Atwater
          Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
          Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot, by Jeanette
          Eaton
          Penn, by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Elizabeth Gray Vining)
 

     1938

       The White Stag, by Kate Seredy

     Honor Books:
          Pecos Bill, by James Cloyd Bowman
          Bright Island, by Mabel Robinson
          On the Banks of Plum Creek, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
 

     1937

       Roller Skates, by Ruth Sawyer

     Honor Books:
          Phebe Fairchild: Her Book, by Lois Lenski
          Whistlers' Van, by Idwal Jones
          The Golden Basket, by Ludwig Bemelmans
          Winterbound, by Margery Williams Bianco
          The Codfish Musket, by Agnes Hewes
          Audubon, by Constance Rourke