2009 Medal Winner

The Graveyeard Book by Neil Gaiman

Honor Books

Savvy by Ingrid Law

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Stuggle For Freedom by Margarita Engle

2008 Medal Winner
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!  Voices from

  a  Medeival Village by Laura AmySchlitz
Honor Books
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

2007 Medal Winner
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Honor Books
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord

2006 Medal Winner
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Honor Books
Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's

  Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti 
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale 
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

2005 Medal Winner
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Honor Books

Al Capone Does My Shirts  by Gennifer

  Choldenko

The Voice that Challenged a Nation:

  Marian Anderson and the Struggle for

  Equal Rights by Russell Freedman 
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by

  Gary D. Schmidt

2004 Medal Winner

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of  a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of  Thread 

by Kate DiCamillo
Honor Books
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and

  Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever

  Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

2003 Medal Winner
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Honor Books
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly

  Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen 
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S.

  Tolan

2002 Medal Winner

A Single Shard  by Linda Sue Park

Honor Books
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001 Medal Winner
A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck
Honor Books
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

2000 Medal Winner
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books
Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey

  Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

1959 Medal Winner
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
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by

  Francis Kalnay
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele 

1958 Medal Winner
Rifles for Watie by Harold 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

1957 Medal Winner
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia

  Sorensen
Honor Books
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert

  DeJong
Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

1956 Medal Winner
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee

  Latham
Honor Books
The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan

  Rawlings
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by

  Katherine Shippen

1955 Medal Winner
The Wheel on the School by Meindert

  DeJong
Honor Books
Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

1954 Medal Winner
...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
Honor Books
All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by

  Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff

1953 Medal Winner
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Honor Books
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil 
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice

  Dalgliesh
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve

  Foster

1952 Medal Winner
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Honor Books
Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth

  Baity
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C.

  Holling
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary &

  Conrad Buff

1951 Medal Winner

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

Honor Books
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by

  Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by

  Jeanette Eaton
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by

  Clara Ingram Judson
The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne

  Parrish

1950 Medal Winner
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de

  Angeli
Honor Books
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine

  Coblentz
Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
George Washington by Genevieve Foster
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
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise

  Rankin
My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

1948 Medal Winner
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène

  du Bois
Honor Books
Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn

  Treffinger

The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny

  Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West

  African Stories by Harold Courlander
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

1947 Medal Winner
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Honor Books
Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher,

  pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor

  Jewett

1946 Medal Winner
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Honor Books
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite

  Henry
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell

  Means
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine

  Weston
New Found World by Katherine Shippen

1945 Medal Winner
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Honor Books
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve

  Foster 
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams

  by Jeanetter Eaton

1944 Medal Winner
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Honor Books
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls

  Wilder
Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

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

  Leigh Hunt

1942 Medal Winner
The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
Honor Books
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls

  Wilder
George Washington's World by Genevieve

  Foster
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison

  by Lois Lenski
Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

1941 Medal Winner
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Honor Books
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary

  Jane Carr
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

1940 Medal Winner

Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

Honor Books

The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy

Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of

  Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura

  Ingalls Wilder

Boy With a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

1939 Medal Winner
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Honor Books
Nino by Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard &

  Florence
Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

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

  Ingalls Wilder

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

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

  Sperry

1935 Medal Winner
Dobry by Monica Shannon
Honor Books
Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth

  Seeger
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
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
The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline

  Snedeker
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry,

  pseud. (Allena Best)
New Land by Sarah Schmidt
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

1933 Medal Winner
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth

  Lewis
Honor Books
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the

  Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
Children of the Soil: A Story of

  Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

1932 Medal Winner
Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
Honor Books
The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
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
Floating Island by Anne Parrish
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan

  Princess by Alida Malkus
Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams
Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes

  Hewes
Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes

  by Herbert Best
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide &

  Margaret Johansen

1930 Medal Winner
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel

  Field
Honor Books
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of

  Madame Roland  by Jeanette Eaton
Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd

  McNeely
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales

  by Ella Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

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

1928 Medal Winner
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan

  Gopal Mukerji
Honor Books
The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella

  Young
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

1927 Medal Winner
Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
Honor Books
None recorded

1926 Medal Winner
Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Honor Book
The Voyagers: Being Legends and

  Romances of Atlantic Discovery by

  Padraic Colum

1925 Medal Winner
Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger 

Honor Books
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by

  Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1924 Medal Winner
The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
Honor Books
None recorded

1923 Medal Winner
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh

  Lofting
Honor Books
None recorded

1922 Medal Winner
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem

  van Loon

Honor Books
The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of

  Adventure by William Bowen
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived  Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs