The Pecan Sheller

by Lupe Ruiz-Flores

(Finalist, 2026)

Find Her

by Ginger Reno

(Finalist, 2025)

Safiyyah’s War

by Hiba Noor Khan

(Honor, 2025)

Black Star

by Kwame Alexander

(Honor, 2025)

Undercover Latina

by Aya de León

(Winner, 2023)

Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame

by Supriya Kelkar

(Honor, 2022)

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

by Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis Hudson, and Tony Medina

(Honor, 2019)

The Enemy

by Sara Holbrook

(Winner, 2018)

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley, and P.J. Loughran

(Winner, 2016)

Seeing Red

by Kathryn Erskine

(Honor, 2014)

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

by Kadir Nelson

(Honor, 2012)

Ninth Ward

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

(Honor, 2011)

The Shepherd’s Granddaughter

by Anne Laurel Carter

(Honor, 2009)

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

by Russell Freedman

(Honor, 2007)

The Crazy Man

by Pamela Porter

(Honor, 2006)

Parvana’s Journey

by Deborah Ellis

(Winner, 2003)

Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope

by Beverley Naidoo and Desmond Tutu

(Winner, 2004)

The Birchbark House

by Louise Erdrich

(Honor, 2000)

Seedfolks

by Paul Fleischman and Judy Pedersen

(Honor, 1998)

Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor

by Russell Freedman and Lewis Wickes Hine

(Winner, 1995)

Every Little Bit Olive Tran

by Phuong Truong

(Finalist, 2026)

Kareem Between

by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

(Finalist, 2025)

Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson

by Ann E. Burg and Sophie Blackall

(Finalist, 2025)

Fake Chinese Sounds

by Jing Jing Tsong

(Finalist, 2025)

Yonder

by Ali Standish

(Honor, 2023)

Land of the Cranes

by Aida Salazar

(Honor, 2021)

Ghost Boys

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

(Winner, 2019)

Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story

by Caren Stelson

(Winner, 2017)

Revolution

by Deborah Wiles

(Honor, 2015)

Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights & Civil Rights Set the Stage for MLK Jr.’s Final Hours

by Ann Bausum

(Honor, 2013)

Inside Out & Back Again

by Thanhhà Lại

(Honor, 2012)

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream

by Tanya Lee Stone

(Honor, 2010)

Elijah of Buxton

by Christopher Paul Curtis

(Honor, 2008)

Counting on Grace

by Elizabeth Winthrop

(Honor, 2007)

The Same Stuff as Stars

by Katherine Paterson

(Honor, 2003)

When My Name Was Keoko

by Linda Sue Park

(Honor, 2003)

Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues

by Harriette Gillem Robinet

(Honor, 2001)

Kids on Strike!

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

(Honor, 2000)

Behind the Bedroom Wall

by Laura E. Williams and A. Nancy Goldstein

(Honor, 1997)

Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

by Ellen Levine

(Winner, 1994)

Words Matter: The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance

by Anita Fitch Pazner and Sophie Casson

(Finalist, 2026)

Creaky Acres

by Calista Brill and Nilah Magruder

(Finalist, 2026)

Barracoon

by Zora Neale Hurston, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, and Ibram X. Kendi

(Finalist, 2025)

Save Our Forest!

by Nora Dåsnes

(Finalist, 2025)

Mascot

by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell

(Honor, 2024)

Swim Team

by Johnnie Christmas

(Honor, 2023)

A Wish in the Dark

by Christina Soontornvat

(Winner, 2021)

Fred Korematsu Speaks Up

by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi

(Honor, 2018)

Wolf Hollow

by Lauren Wolk

(Honor, 2017)

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal

by Margarita Engle

(Honor, 2015)

We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March

by Cynthia Y. Levinson

(Winner, 2013)

Sylvia & Aki

by Winifred Conkling

(Winner, 2012)

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

by Phillip Hoose

(Honor, 2010)

Birmingham, 1963

by Carole Boston Weatherford

(Honor, 2008)

Weedflower

by Cynthia Kadohata

(Winner, 2007)

Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924

by Deborah Hopkinson

(Honor, 2004)

The Heart of a Chief

by Joseph Bruchac

(Honor, 1999)

The Other Side of Truth

by Beverley Naidoo

(Winner, 2002)

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

by Francisco Jiménez

(Honor, 1998)

The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis

(Honor, 1996)

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

by Russell Freedman

(Honor, 1994)

The Strongest Heart

by Saadia Faruqi

(Finalist, 2026)

Radiant

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

(Finalist, 2026)

A World Worth Saving

by Kyle Lukoff

(Finalist, 2026)

Amil and the After

by Veera Hiranandani

(Finalist, 2025)

Not Nothing

by Gayle Forman

(Winner, 2025)

World Made of Glass

by Ami Polonsky

(Honor, 2024)

Rez Dogs

by Joseph Bruchac

(Honor, 2022)

Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

by Veronica Chambers

(Honor, 2021)

Piecing Me Together

by Renée Watson

(Honor, 2018)

We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler

by Russell Freedman and Laura Williams McCaffrey

(Honor, 2017)

Brotherhood

by A.B. Westrick

(Honor, 2014)

Birmingham Sunday

by Larry Dane Brimner

(Honor, 2011)

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary

by Elizabeth Partridge

(Winner, 2010)

Rickshaw Girl

by Mitali Perkins and Jamie Hogan

(Honor, 2008)

Sweetgrass Basket

by Marlene Carvell

(Honor, 2006)

Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

by Chris Crowe

(Honor, 2004)

A Group of One

by Rachna Gilmore

(Honor, 2002)

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

(Winner, 2001)

Habibi

by Naomi Shihab Nye

(Winner, 1998)

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

by Jacqueline Woodson

(Honor, 1996)

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze

by Derrick Barnes

(Finalist, 2026)

A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez

by María Dolores Águila

(Finalist, 2026)

Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice

by Anna Lapera

(Finalist, 2025)

I’m from Here Too

by Kashmira Sheth

(Finalist, 2025)

The Lost Year

by Katherine Marsh

(Winner, 2024)

How to Find What You’re Not Looking For

by Veera Hiranandani

(Winner, 2022)

The Night Diary

by Veera Hiranandani

(Honor, 2019)

Midnight Without a Moon

by Linda Williams Jackson

(Honor, 2018)

Full Cicada Moon

by Marilyn Hilton

(Honor, 2016)

Sugar

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

(Winner, 2014)

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

by Sy Montgomery

(Honor, 2013)

A Long Walk to Water

by Linda Sue Park

(Winner, 2011)

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom

by Margarita Engle

(Winner, 2009)

Ain’t Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry

by Scott Nelson and Marc Aronson

(Honor, 2009)

Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America

by Karen Blumenthal

(Winner, 2006)

The Color of My Words

by Lynn Joseph

(Honor, 2001)

True Believer

by Virginia Euwer Wolff

(Honor, 2002)

Through My Eyes

by Ruby Bridges and Margo Lundell

(Winner, 2000)

The Well

by Mildred D. Taylor

(Winner, 1996)