Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

     Honor Books:
          Ramona and Her Father, by Beverly Cleary
          Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey, by Jamake Highwater
 

     1977

       Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor

     Honor Books:
          Abel's Island, by William Steig
          A String in the Harp, by Nancy Bond
 

     1976

       The Grey King by Susan Cooper

     Honor Books:
          The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
          Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
 

     1975

       M.C. Higgins, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton

     Honor Books:
          Figgs & Phantoms, by Ellen Raskin
          My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
          The Perilous Gard, by Elizabeth Marie Pope
          Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe, by Bette Green
 

     1974

       The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox

     Honor Book:
          The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper
 

     1973

       Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George

     Honor Books:
          Frog and Toad Together, by Arnold Lobel
          The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Weiss
          The Witches of Worm, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
 

     1972

       Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O'Brien

     Honor Books:
          Incident At Hawk's Hill, by Allan W. Eckert
          The Planet of Junior Brown, by Virginia Hamilton
          The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin
          Annie and the Old One, by Miska Miles
          The Headless Cupid, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
 

     1971

       The Summer of the Swans, by Betsy Byars

     Honor Books:
          Kneeknock Rise, by Natalie Babbitt
          Enchantress from the Stars, by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
          Sing Down the Moon, by Scott O'Dell
 

     1970

       Sounder, by William H. Armstrong

     Honor Books:
          Our Eddie, by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
          The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art, by
          Janet Moore
          Journey Outside, by Mary Q. Steele
 

     1969

       The High King, by Lloyd Alexander

     Honor Books:
          To Be a Slave, by Julius Lester
          When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories, by Isaac Bashevis
          Singer
 

     1968

       From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg

     Honor Books:
          Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth, by E. L.
          Konigsburg
          The Black Pearl, by Scott O'Dell
          The Fearsome Inn, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
          The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
 

     1967

       Up a Road Slowly, by Irene Hunt

     Honor Books:
          The King's Fifth, by Scott O'Dell
          Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
          The Jazz Man, by Mary H. Weik
 

     1966

       I, Juan de Pareja, by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

     Honor Books:
          The Black Cauldron, by Lloyd Alexander
          The Animal Family, by Randall Jarrell
          The Noonday Friends, by Mary Stolz
 

     1965

       Shadow of A Bull, by Maia Wojciechowska

     Honor Book:
          Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt
 

     1964

       It's Like This, Cat, by Emily Cheney Neville

     Honor Books:
          Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, by Sterling North
          The Loner, by Ester Weir
 

     1963

       A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle

     Honor Books:
          Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland, by Sorche Nic
          Leodhas
          Men of Athens, by Olivia Coolidge
 

     1962

       The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare

     Honor Books:
          Frontier Living, by Edwin Tunis
          The Golden Goblet, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
          Belling the Tiger, by Mary Stolz
 

     1961

       Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell

     Honor Books:
          America Moves Forward: A History for Peter, by Gerald W. Johnson
          Old Ramon, by Jack Schaefer
          The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
 

     1960

       Onion John, by Joseph Krumgold

     Honor Books:
          My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George
          America Is Born: A History for Peter, by Gerald W. Johnson
          The Gammage Cup, by Carol Kendall
 

     1959

       The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare

     Honor Books:
          The Family Under the Bridge, by Natalie Savage Carlson
          Along Came a Dog, by Meindert DeJong
          Chúcaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa, by Francis Kalnay
          The Perilous Road, by William O. Steele
 

     1958

       Rifles for Watie, by Harold V. Keith

     Honor Books:
          The Horsecatcher, by Mari Sandoz
          Gone-Away Lake, by Elizabeth Enright
          The Great Wheel, by Robert Lawson
          Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle, by Leo Gurko