The House Before Falling Into the Sea

by Ann Suk Wang and Hanna Cha

(Finalist, 2025)

Black Star

by Kwame Alexander

(Honor, 2025)

A Seed in the Sun

by Aida Salazar

(Finalist, 2023)

The Blackbird Girls

by Anne Blankman

(Finalist, 2020)

Midnight Without a Moon

by Linda Williams Jackson

(Honor, 2018)

Full Cicada Moon

by Marilyn Hilton

(Honor, 2016)

Belle, the Last Mule at Gee’s Bend: A Civil Rights Story

by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Bettye Stroud, and John Holyfield

(Honor, 2012)

The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom

by Emily Arnold McCully

(Winner, 2008)

Counting on Grace

by Elizabeth Winthrop

(Honor, 2007)

Henry and the Kite Dragon

by Bruce Edward Hall and William Low

(Honor, 2005)

The Birchbark House

by Louise Erdrich

(Honor, 2000)

Behind the Bedroom Wall

by Laura E. Williams and A. Nancy Goldstein

(Honor, 1997)

Shades of Gray

by Carolyn Reeder

(Honor, 1990)

Nilda

by Nicholasa Mohr

(Winner, 1974)

Chase Me, Catch Nobody!

by Erik Christian Haugaard

(Honor, 1981)

Song of the Trees

by Mildred D. Taylor and Jerry Pinkney

(Honor, 1976)

A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez

by María Dolores Águila

(Finalist, 2026)

They Call Me Teach

by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

(Winner, 2025)

World Made of Glass

by Ami Polonsky

(Honor, 2024)

How to Find What You’re Not Looking For

by Veera Hiranandani

(Winner, 2022)

Show Me a Sign

by Ann Clare Lezotte

(Finalist, 2020)

Steamboat School

by Deborah Hopkinson and Ron Husband

(Winner, 2017)

Revolution

by Deborah Wiles

(Honor, 2015)

Sylvia & Aki

by Winifred Conkling

(Winner, 2012)

Elijah of Buxton

by Christopher Paul Curtis

(Honor, 2008)

Weedflower

by Cynthia Kadohata

(Winner, 2007)

Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam

by Walter Dean Myers and Ann Grifalconi

(Winner, 2003)

Bat 6

by Virginia Euwer Wolff

(Winner, 1999)

The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo

by Tom Feelings

(Commended, 1996)

The Little Fishes

by Erik Christian Haugaard

(Winner, 1968)

Rain of Fire

by Marion Dane Bauer

(Winner, 1984)

The Wheel of King Asoka

by Ashok Davar

(Commended, 1978)

My Brother Sam Is Dead

by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

(Honor, 1975)

Ceecee: Underground Railroad Cinderella

by Shana Keller and Laura Freeman

(Finalist 2026)

Barrio Rising: The Protest That Built Chicano Park

by María Dolores Águila and Magdalena Mora

(Finalist, 2025)

The Lost Year

by Katherine Marsh

(Winner, 2024)

Ophie’s Ghosts

by Justina Ireland

(Finalist, 2022)

Brother’s Keeper

by Julie Lee

(Finalist, 2020)

Wolf Hollow

by Lauren Wolk

(Honor, 2017)

The Whispering Town

by Jennifer Elvgren and Fabio Santomauro

(Honor, 2015)

Ruth and the Green Book

by Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Floyd Cooper

(Honor, 2011)

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow

by Amy Lee-Tai and Felicia Hoshino

(Winner, 2007)

Sweetgrass Basket

by Marlene Carvell

(Honor, 2006)

When My Name Was Keoko

by Linda Sue Park

(Honor, 2003)

Seven Brave Women

by Betsy Hearne and Bethanne Andersen

(Winner, 1998)

The Well

by Mildred D. Taylor

(Winner, 1996)

Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

(Honor, 1990)

The Island on Bird Street

by Uri Orlev

(Honor, 1985)

Child of the Owl

by Laurence Yep

(Winner, 1978)

The Tamarack Tree

by Bea Holmes and Betty Underwood

(Winner, 1972)

Radiant

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

(Finalist, 2026)

Amil and the After

by Veera Hiranandani

(Finalist, 2025)

Yonder

by Ali Standish

(Honor, 2023)

Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame

by Supriya Kelkar

(Honor, 2022)

The Night Diary

by Veera Hiranandani

(Honor, 2019)

Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

by Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans

(Honor, 2016)

Brotherhood

by A.B. Westrick

(Honor, 2014)

A Long Walk to Water

by Linda Sue Park

(Winner, 2011)

Night Boat to Freedom

by Margot Theis Raven and E.B. Lewis

(Honor, 2007)

A Pocket Full of Seeds

by Marilyn Sachs

(Honor, 1974)

The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark

by Carmen Agra Deedy and Henri Sorensen

(Honor, 2001)

Cezanne Pinto

by Mary Stolz

(Honor, 1995)

The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis

(Honor, 1996)

December Stillness

by Mary Downing Hahn

(Honor, 1989)

Let the Circle Be Unbroken

by Mildred D. Taylor

(Honor, 1982)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

(Honor, 1977)

The Cay

by Theodore Taylor

(Winner, 1970)

The Pecan Sheller

by Lupe Ruiz-Flores

(Finalist, 2026)

Safiyyah’s War

by Hiba Noor Khan

(Honor, 2025)

Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny

by Margarita Engle

(Finalist, 2023)

Black Is a Rainbow Color

by Angela Joy and Ekua Holmes

(Honor, 2021)

The Enemy

by Sara Holbrook

(Winner, 2018)

New Shoes

by Susan Lynn Meyer and Eric Velasquez

(Winner, 2016)

Inside Out & Back Again

by Thanhhà Lại

(Honor, 2012)

The Storyteller’s Candle / La velita de los cuentos

by Lucia M. Gonzalez and Lulu Delacre

(Honor, 2009)

Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom

by Tim Tingle and Jeanne Rorex Bridges

(Honor, 2007)

The Crazy Man

by Pamela Porter

(Honor, 2006)

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

(Winner, 2001)

The Day Gogo Went to Vote

by Elinor Batezat Sisulu and Sharon Wilson

(Honor, 1997)

Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs

by Mary E. Lyons

(Honor, 1993)

Trouble at the Mines

by Doreen Rappaport and Joan Sandin

(Honor, 1988)

A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind

by Athena V. Lord

(Winner, 1982)

Dragonwings

by Laurence Yep

(Honor, 1976)

The Perilous Road

by William O. Steele

(Winner, 1958)