We Miss You, George Floyd

by Shannon Gibney and Leeya Rose Jackson

(Finalist, 2026)

Every Little Bit Olive Tran

by Phuong Truong

(Finalist, 2026)

Not Nothing

by Gayle Forman

(Winner, 2025)

Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson

by Ann E. Burg and Sophie Blackall

(Finalist, 2025)

My Red, White, and Blue

by Alana Tyson and London Ladd

(Finalist, 2024)

Warrior Girl

by Carmen Tafolla

(Finalist, 2024)

Swim Team

by Johnnie Christmas

(Honor, 2023)

Ida in the Middle

by Nora Lester Murad

(Finalist, 2024)

Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna

by Alda P. Dobbs

(Finalist, 2022)

Land of the Cranes

by Aida Salazar

(Honor, 2021)

Seeing Red

by Kathryn Erskine

(Honor, 2014)

Counting on Grace

by Elizabeth Winthrop

(Honor, 2007)

¡Si, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A.

by Diana Cohn, Paul Mirocha, and Francisco Delgado

(Honor, 2003)

Parvana’s Journey

by Deborah Ellis

(Winner, 2003)

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

(Winner, 2001)

Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl

by Mildred Pitts Walter

(Honor, 1997)

Taste of Salt

by Frances Temple

(Winner, 1993)

Looking Out

by Victoria Boutis

(Winner, 1989)

Lupita Mañana

by Patricia Beatty

(Honor, 1982)

Alan and Naomi

by Myron Levoy

(Honor, 1978)

My Brother Sam Is Dead

by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

(Honor, 1975)

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze

by Derrick Barnes

(Honor, 2026)

Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice

by Anna Lapera

(Finalist, 2025)

Fake Chinese Sounds

by Jing Jing Tsong

(Finalist, 2025)

Mascot

by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell

(Honor, 2024)

School Trip

by Jerry Craft

(Finalist, 2024)

Fight Back

by A.M. Dassu

(Finalist, 2023)

The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

by Michael Leali

(Finalist, 2023)

Treasure of the World

by Tara Sullivan

(Finalist, 2022)

Rick

by Alex Gino

(Finalist, 2020)

Each Kindness

by Jacqueline Woodson and E.B. Lewis

(Winner, 2013)

Weedflower

by Cynthia Kadohata

(Winner, 2007)

Selavi, That Is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope

by Youme Landowne

(Winner, 2005)

When My Name Was Keoko

by Linda Sue Park

(Honor, 2003)

When Sophie Gets Angry…Really, Really Angry

by Molly Bang

(Honor, 2000)

The Well

by Mildred D. Taylor

(Winner, 1996)

Shades of Gray

by Carolyn Reeder

(Honor, 1990)

Waiting for the Rain

by Sheila Gordon

(Winner, 1988)

A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind

by Athena V. Lord

(Winner, 1982)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

(Honor, 1977)

The Cay

by Theodore Taylor

(Winner, 1970)

What Then, Raman?

by Shirley Lease Arora and Hans Guggenheim

(Winner, 1961)

The Strongest Heart

by Saadia Faruqi

(Finalist, 2026)

Faith Takes the Train

by Kesi Augustine and Mokshini

(Finalist, 2026)

Black Star

by Kwame Alexander

(Honor, 2025)

I’m from Here Too

by Kashmira Sheth

(Finalist, 2025)

Land of Broken Promises

by Jane Kuo

(Finalist, 2024)

Indigo and Ida

by Heather Murphy Capps

(Finalist, 2024)

The First Rule of Climate Club

by Carrie Firestone

(Finalist, 2023)

Linked

by Gordon Korman

(Finalist, 2022)

Unsettled

by Reem Faruqi

(Finalist, 2022)

The Day You Begin

by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López

(Winner, 2019)

Ninth Ward

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

(Honor, 2011)

The Crazy Man

by Pamela Porter

(Honor, 2006)

The Composition

by Antonio Skarmeta and Alfonso Ruano

(Winner, 2001)

Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope

by Beverley Naidoo and Desmond Tutu

(Winner, 2004)

Marianthe’s Story: Painted Words and Spoken Memories

by Aliki

(Winner, 1999)

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

by Jacqueline Woodson

(Honor, 1996)

Journey of the Sparrows

by Fran Leeper Buss

(Winner, 1992)

Trouble at the Mines

by Doreen Rappaport and Joan Sandin

(Honor, 1988)

Chase Me, Catch Nobody!

by Erik Christian Haugaard

(Honor, 1981)

Berries Goodman

by Emily Cheney Neville

(Winner, 1966)

Stick-in-the-Mud: A Tale of a Village, a Custom & a Little Boy

by Jean Ketchum and Fred Ketchum

(Winner, 1954)

Maeve Mulvaney Has Had Enough

by Kelly Mangan

(Finalist, 2026)

The Pecan Sheller

by Lupe Ruiz-Flores

(Finalist, 2026)

Kareem Between

by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

(Finalist, 2025)

Find Her

by Ginger Reno

(Finalist, 2025)

The Walk

by Winsome Bingham and E.B. Lewis

(Finalist, 2024)

Top Story

by Kelly Yang

(Finalist, 2024)

Saving Sunshine

by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan

(Finalist, 2024)

Alice Austen Lived Here

by Alex Gino

(Finalist, 2023)

Starfish

by Lisa Fipps

(Finalist, 2022)

Fighting Words

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

(Finalist, 2020)

Piecing Me Together

by Renée Watson

(Honor, 2018)

The Shepherd’s Granddaughter

by Anne Laurel Carter

(Honor, 2009)

Mud City

by Deborah Ellis

(Commended, 2004)

Hot Day on Abbott Avenue

by Karen English and Javaka Steptoe

(Honor, 2005)

The Heart of a Chief

by Joseph Bruchac

(Honor, 1999)

The Other Side of Truth

by Beverley Naidoo

(Winner, 2002)

Habibi

by Naomi Shihab Nye

(Winner, 1998)

I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This

by Jacqueline Woodson

(Honor, 1995)

Nicolas, Where Have You Been?

by Leo Lionni

(Honor, 1988)

Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa

by Sheila Gordon

(Honor, 1991)

Nobody Wants a Nuclear War: Story and Pictures

by Judith Vigna

(Winner, 1987)

The Great Gilly Hopkins

by Katherine Paterson

(Honor, 1979)

Meeting with a Stranger

by Duane Bradley

(Winner, 1965)

Call Me Gray

by Andrew Larsen and Bells Larsen

(Finalist, 2026)

Creaky Acres

by Calista Brill and Nilah Magruder

(Finalist, 2026)

Brave

by Weshoyot Alvitre

(Finalist, 2026)

A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home

by Maysa Odeh and Aliaa Betawi

(Honor, 2025)

Top Story

by Kelly Yang

(Finalist, 2024)

Hands

by Torrey Maldonado

(Finalist, 2024)

Dream, Annie, Dream

by Waka T. Brown

(Finalist, 2023)

Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution

by Sherri Winston

(Finalist, 2023)

Rez Dogs

by Joseph Bruchac

(Honor, 2022)

The Day Saida Arrived

by Susana Gómez Redondo and Sonja Wimmer

(Finalist, 2020)

Sugar

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

(Winner, 2014)

Rickshaw Girl

by Mitali Perkins and Jamie Hogan

(Honor, 2008)

The Same Stuff as Stars

by Katherine Paterson

(Honor, 2003)

The Color of My Words

by Lynn Joseph

(Honor, 2001)

The Breadwinner

by Deborah Ellis

(Commended, 2004)

Seedfolks

by Paul Fleischman and Judy Pedersen

(Honor, 1998)

Bein’ with You This Way

by W. Nikola-Lisa and Michael Bryant

(Honor, 1995)

December Stillness

by Mary Downing Hahn

(Honor, 1989)

Music, Music for Everyone

by Vera B. Williams

(Honor, 1985)

All in a Day

by Mitsumasa Anno

(Honor, 1987)

Amifika

by Lucille Clifton

(Commended, 1978)

Song of the Trees

by Mildred D. Taylor and Jerry Pinkney

(Honor, 1976)