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2003 Honor Books:
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2002 Medal Winner: 
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park.... ORDER NOW

2002 Honor Books:
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath.... ORDER NOW
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2001 Medal Winner: 
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck.... ORDER NOW

2001 Honor Books:
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer.... ORDER NOW
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2000 Medal Winner:
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.... ORDER NOW

2000 Honor Books:
Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis   ORDER NOW
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm   ORDER NOW
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1999 Medal Winner: 
Holes 
by Louis Sachar 
1999 Honor Book:
          o A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

1998 Medal Winner: 
Out of the Dust 
by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1998 Honor Books:
          o Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
          o Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff 
          o Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

1997 Medal Winner: 
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg 
Honor Books:
          o A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer 
          o Moorchild by Eloise McGraw 
          o The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner 
          o Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

1996 Medal Winner: 
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Honor Books:
         o What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
          o The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 
          o Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner 
          o The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

1995 Medal Winner: 
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
      Honor Books:
          o Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman 
          o The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1994 Medal Winner: 
The Giver by Lois Lowry
      Honor Books:
          o Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
          o Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
          o Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

1993 Medal Winner: 
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
      Honor Books:
          o What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
          o The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural 
               by Patricia McKissack 
          o Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

1992 Medal Winner: 
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
      Honor Books:
          o Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
          o The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane 
              by Russell Freedman

1991 Medal Winner: 
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
      Honor Book:
          o The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
 

1990 Medal Winner: 
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
      Honor Books:
          o Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
          o Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
          o The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
 

1989 Medal Winner: 
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman 
      Honor Books:
          o In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World 
              by Virginia Hamilton 
          o Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

1988 Medal Winner: 
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
      Honor Books:
          o After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
          o Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1987 Medal Winner: 
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
     Honor Books:
          o A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
          o On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
          o Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens 
               by Patricia Lauber

1986 Medal Winner: 
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
     Honor Books:
          o Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun 
              by Rhoda Blumberg
          o Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

1985 Medal Winner: 
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
      Honor Books:
          o Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
          o The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks 
          o One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

1984 Medal Winner: 
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
      Honor Books:
          o The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
          o A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt 
          o Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
          o The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain 

1983 Medal Winner: 
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
      Honor Books:
          o The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
          o Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
          o Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
          o Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
          o Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982 Medal Winner: 
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers 
        by Nancy Willard
      Honor Books:
          o Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
          o Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)

1981 Medal Winner: 
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
      Honor Books:
          o The Fledgling by Jane Langton
          o A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

1980 Medal Winner: 
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos 
      Honor Book:
          o The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian 

1979 Medal Winner: 
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
      Honor Book:
          o The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978 Medal Winner: 
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
      Honor Books:
          o Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
         o Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

1977 Medal Winner: 
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
      Honor Books:
          o Abel's Island by William Steig
          o A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

1976 Medal Winner: 
The Grey King by Susan Cooper
      Honor Books:
          o The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
          o Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

1975 Medal Winner: 
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
      Honor Books:
          o Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
         o My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier 
          o The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
          o Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

1974 Medal Winner: 
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
      Honor Book:
          o The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper 
1973 Medal Winner: 
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
      Honor Books:
          o Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
          o The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
          o The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1972 Medal Winner: 
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
      Honor Books:
          o Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
          o The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
          o The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
          o Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
          o The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1971 Medal Winner: 
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
      Honor Books:
          o Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
          o Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl 
          o Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

1970 Medal Winner: 
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
      Honor Books:
          o Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
          o The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art 
             by Janet Gaylord Moore
          o Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
 

1969 Medal Winner: 
The High King by Lloyd Alexander
      Honor Books:
          o To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
          o When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories 
             by Isaac Bashevis Singer 

1968 Medal Winner: 
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg 
      Honor Books:
          o Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth 
               by E. L. Konigsburg
          o The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
          o The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
          o The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967 Medal Winner: 
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
      Honor Books:
          o The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
          o Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
          o The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

1966 Medal Winner: 
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
      Honor Books:
          o The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
          o The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell 
          o The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz 

1965 Medal Winner: 
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
      Honor Book:
          o Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964 Medal Winner: 
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
      Honor Books:
          o Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
          o The Loner by Ester Wier

1963 Medal Winner: 
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
      Honor Books:
          o Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland 
                by Leclaire Alger
          o Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1962 Medal Winner: 
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
      Honor Books:
          o Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
          o The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
          o Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz 

1961 Medal Winner: 
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
      Honor Books:
          o America Moves Forward: A History for Peter 
              by Gerald W. Johnson
          o Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
          o The Cricket In Times Square by George Thompson

1960 Medal Winner: 
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
      Honor Books:
          o My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
          o America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
          o The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

1959 Medal Winner: 
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
      Honor Books:
          o The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
          o Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong
          o Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
          o The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

1958 Medal Winner: 
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
      Honor Books:
          o The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
          o Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
          o The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
          o Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

1957 Medal Winner: 
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
      Honor Books:
          o Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
          o The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
          o Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
          o The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
          o Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

1956 Medal Winner: 
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
      Honor Books:
          o The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
          o The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
          o Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

1955 Medal Winner: 
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
      Honor Books:
          o Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
          o Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

1954 Medal Winner: 
...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
      Honor Books:
          o All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
          o Shadrach by Meindert Dejong 
          o Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong 
          o Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
          o Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff 

1953 Medal Winner: 
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
      Honor Books:
          o Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
          o Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
          o Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil 
          o The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
          o Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

1952 Medal Winner: 
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
      Honor Books:
          o Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
          o Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling 
          o The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
          o The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
          o The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff 

1951 Medal Winner: 
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
      Honor Books:
          o Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
          o Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
          o Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
          o The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

1950 Medal Winner: 
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
      Honor Books:
          o Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
          o The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
          o Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
          o George Washington by Genevieve Foster
          o Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin 
             by Walter & Marion Havighurst

1949 Medal Winner: 
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
      Honor Books:
          o Seabird by Holling C. Holling 
          o Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin
          o My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
         o Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

1948 Medal Winner: 
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
      Honor Books:
          o Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
          o Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
          o The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot 
               by Catherine Besterman
          o The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories 
              by Harold Courlander
          o Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

1947 Medal Winner: 
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
      Honor Books:
          o Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
          o Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
          o The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell 
          o The Avion My Uncle Flew by Darwin L. Teilhet
          o The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

1946 Medal Winner: 
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
      Honor Books:
          o Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
          o The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
          o Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
          o New Found World by Katherine Shippen

1945 Medal Winner: 
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
      Honor Books:
          o The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
          o The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
          o Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
          o Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton

1944 Medal Winner: 
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
      Honor Books:
          o These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
          o Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
          o Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
          o Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

1943 Medal Winner: 
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
      Honor Books:
          o The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
          o Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

1942 Medal Winner: 
The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
      Honor Books:
          o Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
          o George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
          o Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski 
          o Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

1941 Medal Winner: 
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
      Honor Books:
          o Blue Willow by Doris Gates
          o Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr 
          o The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
          o Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall 

1940 Medal Winner: 
Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
      Honor Books:
          o The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
          o Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz 
               by Mabel Robinson
          o By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
          o Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

1939 Medal Winner: 
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
      Honor Books:
          o Nino by Valenti Angelo
          o Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
          o Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
          o Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot 
               by Jeanette Eaton
          o Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1938 Medal Winner: 
The White Stag by Kate Seredy
      Honor Books:
          o Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
          o Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
          o On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937 Medal Winner: 
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
      Honor Books:
          o Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
          o Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
          o The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
          o Winterbound by Margery Bianco
          o The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
          o Audubon by Constance Rourke

1936 Medal Winner: 
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
      Honor Books:
          o Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
          o The Good Master by Kate Seredy
          o Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
          o All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry 

1935 Medal Winner: 
Dobry by Monica Shannon
      Honor Books:
          o Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
          o Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
          o Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum 

1934 Medal Winner: 
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs 
      Honor Books:
          o The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
          o Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
          o ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
          o Winged Girl of Knossos by Allena Best
          o New Land by Sarah Schmidt
          o Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum 
          o Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
          o Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

1933 Medal Winner: 
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
      Honor Books:
          o Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
          o The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift 
          o Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

1932 Medal Winner: 
Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
      Honor Books:
          o The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
          o Calico Bush by Rachel Field
          o Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
          o Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
          o Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
          o Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis 

1931 Medal Winner: 
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
      Honor Books:
          o Floating Island by Anne Parrish
          o The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus 
          o Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
          o Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams
          o Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
          o Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
          o Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
          o Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen

1930 Medal Winner: 
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
      Honor Books:
          o A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton 
          o Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
          o Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
          o The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
          o Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
          o Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

1929 Medal Winner: 
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
      Honor Books:
          o Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
          o Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
          o The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
          o Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
          o Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
          o Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

1928 Medal Winner: 

Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
      Honor Books:
          o The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young (Longmans)
          o Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)

1927 Medal Winner: 
Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
      Honor Books:
          o [None recorded]

1926 Medal Winner: 
Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
      Honor Book:
          o The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)

1925 Medal Winner: 
Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
      Honor Books:
         o Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
          o The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1924 Medal Winner: 
The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
      Honor Books:
          o [None recorded]

1923 Medal Winner: 
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
      Honor Books:
          o [None recorded]

1922 Medal Winner: 
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
      Honor Books:
          o The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
          o Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
          o The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
          o The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
          o The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs

 

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