2019 Ghost by Jason Reynolds
2018 A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
2017The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
2016 Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
2015 Legend by Marie Lu
2014 Wonder by R. J. Palacio
2013 Smile by Raina Telgemeier
2012 Powerless by Matthew Cody
2011 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2010 All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
2009 The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2008 Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
2007 So B. It by Sarah Weeks
2006 Eragon by Christopher Paolini
2005 Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
2004 Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
2003 Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
2002 Holes by Louis Sachar
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K Rowling
2000 Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
1999 Frindle by Andrew Clements
1998 Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
1997 The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
1996 The Giver by Lois Lowry
1995 Flight #116 is Down by Caroline Cooney
1994 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1993 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1992 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1991 Matilda by Roald Dahl
1990 Wait Til Helen Comes: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
1989 Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
1988 Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks
