Newbery Award

From the ALA list:

2012 Medal Winner: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux)

Honor Books:
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers)
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin (Henry Holt and Company, LLC)

2011 Medal Winner: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)

Honor Books:
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House Children's Books)
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams)
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins)

2010 Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)

Honor Books: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Henry Holt)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers)
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.)

2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)

Honor Books:

• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)
• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt)
• Savvy by Ingrid Law (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media)
• After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers)

2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)

Honor Books:

• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
• Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)

2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)

Honor Books:

• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm, (Random House)
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (Delacorte Press)
• Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)

2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)

Honor Books:

• Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Random House)
  
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
  
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
  
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
  

2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

Honor Books:

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons/a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)
  
• The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
  
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
  

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, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)

Honor Books:

• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
  
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)
  

2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)

Honor Books:

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
  
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)
  
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
  
• A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
  
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)
  

2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

Honor Books:

• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
  
• Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
  

2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)

Honor Books:

• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
  
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
  
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
  
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
  

2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

Honor Books:

• Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)
  
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
  
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (Putnam)
  

1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)

Honor Book:

• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (Dial)
  

1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)

Honor Books:

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
  
• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
  
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)
  

1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

Honor Books:

• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
  
• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
  
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
  
• Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)
  

1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)

Honor Books:

• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
  
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
  
• Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
  
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)
  

1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)

Honor Books:

• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
  
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)
  

1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)

Honor Books:

• Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins)
  
• Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)
  

1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)

Honor Books:

• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint)
  
• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
  
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)
  

1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)

Honor Books:

• Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
  
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
  

1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)

Honor Book:

• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
  

1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)

Honor Books:

• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)
  
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)
  
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)
  

1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)

Honor Books:

• In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
  
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers (Harper)
  

1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)

Honor Books:

• After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow)
  
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)
  

1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)

Honor Books:

• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)
  
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion)
  
• Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber (Bradbury)
  

1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)

Honor Books:

• Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop)
  
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)
  

1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)

Honor Books:

• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (Knopf)
  
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (Harper)
  
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
  

1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)

Honor Books:

• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
  
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
  
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)
  
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain (Harper)
  

1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)

Honor Books:

• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
  
• Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (Farrar)
  
• Graven Images by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
  
• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
  
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
  

1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)

Honor Books:

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
  
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)
  

1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

Honor Books:

• The Fledgling by Jane Langton (Harper)
  
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
  

1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)

Honor Book:

• The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (Greenwillow)
  

• 1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
  Honor Book:
  
  • The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
    
  
  
  
• 1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
    
  • Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (Lippincott)
    
  
  
  
• 1977 Medal Winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Abel's Island by William Steig (Farrar)
    
  • A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Atheneum)
    
  
  
  
• 1976 Medal Winner: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking)
    
  • Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (Harper)
    
  
  
  
• 1975 Medal Winner: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
    
  • My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Four Winds)
    
  • The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)
    
  • Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene (Dial)
    
  
  
  
• 1974 Medal Winner: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
  Honor Book:
  
  • The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
    
  
  
  
• 1973 Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
    
  • The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (Crowell)
    
  • The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
    
  
  
  
• 1972 Medal Winner: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown)
    
  • The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
    
  • The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)
    
  • Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles (Little, Brown)
    
  • The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
    
  
  
  
• 1971 Medal Winner: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar)
    
  • Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)
    
  • Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
    
  
  
  
• 1970 Medal Winner: Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon)
    
  • The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore (World)
    
  • Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele (Viking)
    
• 1969 Medal Winner: The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
  Honor Books:
  
  • To Be a Slave by Julius Lester (Dial)
    
  • When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar)
    
  
  
  
• 1968 Medal Winner: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
    
  • The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
    
  • The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Scribner)
    
  • The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
    
  
  
  
• 1967 Medal Winner: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
    
  • Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Harper)
    
  • The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum)
    
  
  
  
• 1966 Medal Winner: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
    
  • The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell (Pantheon)
    
  • The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz (Harper)
    
  
  
  
• 1965 Medal Winner: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
  Honor Book:
  
  • Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (Follett)
    
  
  
  
• 1964 Medal Winner: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North (Dutton)
    
  • The Loner by Ester Wier (McKay)
    
  
  
  
• 1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger) (Holt)
    
  • Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge (Houghton)
    
  
  
  
• 1962 Medal Winner: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis (World)
    
  • The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
    
  • Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz (Harper)
    
  
  
  
• 1961 Medal Winner: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
  Honor Books:
  
  • America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
    
  • Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (Houghton)
    
  • The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson) (Farrar)
    
  
  
  
• 1960 Medal Winner: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
  Honor Books:
  
  • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Dutton)
    
  • America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
    
  • The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (Harcourt)
    
  
  
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• 1959 Medal Winner: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper)
    
  • Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
    
  • Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay (Harcourt)
    
  • The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (Harcourt)
    
  
  
  
• 1958 Medal Winner: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz (Westminster)
    
  • Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt)
    
  • The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (Viking)
    
  • Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko (Crowell)
    
• 1957 Medal Winner: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (Harper)
    
  • The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
    
  • Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
    
  • The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads (Viking)
    
  • Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
    
  
  
  
• 1956 Medal Winner: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
    
  • The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist (Harper)
    
  • Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen (Viking)
    
  
  
  
• 1955 Medal Winner: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
    
  • Banner In The Sky by James Ullman (Lippincott)
    
  
  
  
• 1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
  Honor Books:
  
  • All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
    
  • Shadrach by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
    
  • Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
    
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
    
  • Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)
    
  
  
  
• 1953 Medal Winner: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (Harper)
    
  • Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
    
  • Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil (Viking)
    
  • The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
    
  • Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
    
  
  
  
• 1952 Medal Winner: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity (Viking)
    
  • Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
    
  • The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Scribner)
    
  • The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer (Viking)
    
  • The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)
    
  
  
  
• 1951 Medal Winner: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
    
  • Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)
    
  • Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
    
  • The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish (Harper)
    
  
  
  
• 1950 Medal Winner: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill (Viking)
    
  • The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz (Longmans)
    
  • Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday)
    
  • George Washington by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
    
  • Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst (Winston)
    
• 1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Seabird by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
    
  • Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin (Viking)
    
  • My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett (Random House)
    
  • Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Knopf)
    
  
  
  
• 1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
    
  • Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)
    
  • The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)
    
  • The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander (Holt)
    
  • Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
    
  
  
  
• 1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes (Messner)
    
  • Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
    
  • The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Harper)
    
  • The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) (Appleton)
    
  • The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett (Viking)
    
  
  
  
• 1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
    
  • The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)
    
  • Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston (Scribner)
    
  • New Found World by Katherine Shippen (Viking)
    
  
  
  
• 1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
    
  • The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
    
  • Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
    
  • Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton (Harcourt)
    
  
  
  
• 1944 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
  Honor Books:
  
  • These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
    
  • Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (Viking)
    
  • Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
    
  • Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (Coward)
    
  
  
  
• 1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
    
  • Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
    
  
  
  
• 1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
    
  • George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
    
  • Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
    
  • Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)
    
  
  
  
• 1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Blue Willow by Doris Gates (Viking)
    
  • Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)
    
  • The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
    
  • Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)
    
  
  
  
• 1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (Viking)
    
  • Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
    
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
    
  • Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)
    
  
  
  1939 Medal Winner: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
  
• Honor Books:
  
  • Nino by Valenti Angelo (Viking)
    
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater (Little, Brown)
    
  • Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford (Holt)
    
  • Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt)
    
  • Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
    
  
  
  
• 1938 Medal Winner: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman (Little, Brown)
    
  • Bright Island by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
    
  • On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
    
  
  
  
• 1937 Medal Winner: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski (Stokes)
    
  • Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones (Viking)
    
  • The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
    
  • Winterbound by Margery Bianco (Viking)
    
  • The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes (Doubleday)
    
  • Audubon by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
    
  
  
  
• 1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong (Dodd)
    
  • The Good Master by Kate Seredy (Viking)
    
  • Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
    
  • All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry (Winston)
    
  
  
  
• 1935 Medal Winner: Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger (Longmans)
    
  • Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
    
  • Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum (Harper)
    
  
  
  
• 1934 Medal Winner: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
    
  • Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster (Houghton)
    
  • ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág (Coward)
    
  • Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) (Appleton)
    
  • New Land by Sarah Schmidt (McBride)
    
  • Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
    
  • Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
    
  • Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle (Houghton)
    
  
  
  
• 1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
    
  • The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
    
  • Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon (Doubleday)
    
  
  
  
• 1932 Medal Winner: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan)
    
  • Calico Bush by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
    
  • Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann)
    
  • Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery (Longmans)
    
  • Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee (Houghton)
    
  • Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis (Harcourt)
    
  
  
  
• 1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
  Honor Books:
  
  • Floating Island by Anne Parrish (Harper)
    
  • The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus (Harcourt)
    
  • Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard (Doubleday)
    
  • Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams (Dutton)
    
  • Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
    
  • Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Doubleday)
    
  • Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best (Doubleday)
    
  • Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen (Little, Brown)
    
  
  
  
• 1930 Medal Winner: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
  Honor Books:
  
  • A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton (Harper)
    
  • Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller (Doubleday)
    
  • Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely (Longmans)
  • The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young (Longmans)
  • Vaino by Julia Davis Adams (Dutton)
  • Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
    
    
    • 1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
      Honor Books:
      
      • Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett (Longmans)
        
      • Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (Coward)
        
      • The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock (Dutton)
        
      • Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
        
      • Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon (Doubleday)
        
      • Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney (Macmillan)
        
      
      
    • 1928 Medal Winner: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
      Honor Books:
      
      • The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young (Longmans)
        
      • Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
        
      
      
    • 1927 Medal Winner: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
      Honor Books:
      
      • [None recorded]
        
      
      
    • 1926 Medal Winner: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
      Honor Book:
      
      • The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
        
      
      
    • 1925 Medal Winner: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
      Honor Books:
      
      • Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore (Putnam)
        
      • The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish (Macmillan)
        
      
      
    • 1924 Medal Winner: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
      Honor Books:
      
      • [None recorded]
        
      
      
    • 1923 Medal Winner: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)
      Honor Books:
      
      • [None recorded]
        
      
      
    • 1922 Medal Winner: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)
      Honor Books:
      
      • The Great Quest by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
        
      • Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall (Appleton)
        
      • The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen (Macmillan)
        
      • The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
      • The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (Macmillan)
        

The Bluestem Award

The Bluestem Award:  3-5 Children's Choice Award is designed for students in grades 3-5. Its annual master may contain non-fiction, timeless classics as well as current titles, biography,and  other diverse and varied content titles appropriate for this age group. 

2014 Master List Bluestem Book Award
Amato, Mary Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook

Banerjee, Anjali Seaglass Summer 

Beccia, Carlyn I Feel Better with a Frog in my Throat : history's strangest cures 

Cotler, Stephen and Adam McCauley (ill) Cheesie Mack is not a Genius or Anything

Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, not Buddy

Davies, Jacqueline The Lemonade War
Dennis, Brian, Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery Nubs : the true story of a mutt, a marine & a miracle
DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie
Green, Michelle Y A Strong Right Arm: the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson

Hurwitz, Michele Weber Calli be Gold
Jenkins, Steve Bones: skeletons and how they work
Kerley, Barbara and Brian Selznick (ill) The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins : an illuminating history of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, artist and lecturer
Lowry, Lois Number the Stars
MacLachlan, Patricia and Amy June Bates (ill) Waiting for the Magic 

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Emily’s Fortune 

Palacio, R J Wonder

Pennypacker, Sara and Marla Frazee (ill) Clementine 

Scieszka, Jon and Lane Smith (ill) Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio vol 1)
Weeks, Sarah Pie 

Whybrow, Ian and Tony Ross (ill) Little Wolf's Book of Badness

 Master List for the 2012-2013 school year:
Alvarez, Julia How Tia Lola Came to Stay Knopf 2001
Barton, Chris The Day-­‐Glo Brothers Charlesbridge 2009
Bosch, Pseudonymous The Name of this Book is Secret Little Brown 2008
Buyea,Rob Because of Mr. Terupt Delacorte Press 2010
Cassino, Mark The Story of Snow Chronicle 2009
Chin, Jason Redwoods Flash Point 2009
Creech, Sharon Love that Dog HarperCollins 2003
DiCamillo, Kate The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Candlewick 2006
Draper, Sharon Out of My Mind Atheneum 2010
Epstein, Adam and Andrew Jacobson The Familiars HarperCollins 2010
Frazier,Sundee T. Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything In It Delacorte Press 2007
Graff, Lisa The Thing about Georgie HarperCollins 2008
Gutman, Dan Honus and Me HarperCollins 1998
Lord,Cynthia Touch Blue Scholastic 2010
Morpurgo, Michael War Horse Scholastic 1982
Pitchford, Dean Captain Nobody Putnam 2009
Raczka, Bob Guyku Houghton Mifflin 2009
Ramsey, Calvin A. Ruth and the Green Book Carolrhoda 2010
Singer, Marilyn Mirror Mirror Dutton 2010
West, Jacqueline The Shadows (Books of Elsewhere Vol.1) Dial 2010

Master List released for the 2011-2012 school year:
14 Cows for America by Carmen Deedy 

Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm and Andrew Arnold  ### Winner


All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912 : the Day the Titanic Sank by Dan Brown 


Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories by Sandra Markle 


Bad news for outlaws: the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 


Bunnicula: a Rabbit Tale of Mystery by James Howe 


Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise 


Extra Credit by Andrew Clements 


Faith, Hope and Ivy June Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 

Flight of the Phoenix by R.L. LaFevers 


Just Grace by Charise Harper 


Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka

Passage to Freedom: the Sughihara story by Ken Mochizuki 


Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan 


Rules by Cynthia Lord 


Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis 


Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar, Louis 


Sisters Grimm: the Fairy‐Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley 


Swindle by Gordon Korman 


World According to Humphrey by Betty Birney

Master List released for the 2010-2011 school year:
Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows
Nic Bishop Frogs by Nic Bishop
No Talking by Andrew Clements
BFG by Roald Dahl
Kenny and the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizzi
Sky Boys: How they Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson
mmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Year of the Dog by Grace Lin
Being Teddy Roosevelt by Claudia Mills
Hachiko Waits by Leslea Newman
Boys of Steel by Marc Tyler Nobleman
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'ConnorHoudini Box by Brian Selznik
Dodger and Me by Jordan Sonnenblick
Where I Live by Eileen Spinelli
Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln by Judith St. George

Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen
Oggie Cooder by Sarah Weeks
Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award

2013 Master List 

Angleberger, Tom The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Baskin, Nora Raleigh Anything but Typical
Draper, Sharon M. Out of My Mind
Falls, Kat Dark Life
Ferrari, Michael Born to Fly
Friend, Natasha Bounce
Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book
Gephart, Donna How to Survive Middle School
Hawkins, Aaron The Year Money Grew on Trees
Holm, Jennifer L. Turtle in Paradise
LaFleur, Suzanne Love, Aubrey
Lai, Thanhha Inside Out & Back Again
Meyer, Susan Lynn Black Radishes
Mulligan, Andy Trash
Perkins, Lynne Rae As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth
Rhodes, Jewell Parker Ninth Ward
Senzai, N. H. Shooting Kabul
Telgemeier, Raina Smile
Wiles, Deborah Countdown
Williams-Garcia, Rita One Crazy Summer

2012 Master List
Auch, M J One-Handed Catch
Broach, Elise Masterpiece
Burg, Ann E. All the Broken Pieces
Carmichael, Clay Wild Things
Clements, Andrew Extra Credit
Cochrane, Mick The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
Cody, Matthew Powerless
Kelly, Jacqueline The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Lin, Grace Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Magoon, Kekla The Rock and the River
Mass, Wendy Every Soul a Star
O'Connor, Barbara Greetings from Nowhere
Parry, Rosanne Heart of a Shepherd
Paulsen, Gary Woods Runner
Philbrick, Rodman The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Prineas, Sarah The Magic Thief
Scieszka, Jon Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories about Growing Up Scieszka
Smith, Roland Peak
Smith, Sherri L. Flygirl
Westerfeld, Scott Leviathan

Caudill List 2011
Anderson, Laurie Halse Chains
Bartoletti,  Susan Campbell The Boy Who Dared
Cassidy, Cathy Scarlett
Collins,  Suzanne The Hunger Games 
Connor, Leslie Waiting for Normal 
Frost,  Helen Diamond WillowHaddix, Margaret Peterson Found
Herlong,  M. H. The Great Wide Sea 
Hiaasen, Carl Scat
Korman,  Gordon Schooled
Law, Ingrid Savvy 
Mass, Wendy 11  Birthdays
McKissack, Patricia C. A Friendship for Today
Mull,  Brandon Fablehaven
Pearsall, Shelley All Shook Up
Roy,  Jennifer Yellow Star
Schmidt, Gary D. Trouble
Scott,  Michael The Alchemyst
Shafer, Audrey The Mailbox
Sonnenblick,  Jordan Notes from the Midnight Driver

Reading list of 2010 nominees :Naked Mole-Rat Letters by Mary Amato
Home of The Brave by Katherine Applegate
Shark Girl by Kelly L. Bingham
Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Freedom Walkers : The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff
All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Dowling Hahn
Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
Kimchi & Calamri by Rose Kent
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo
A Small White Scar by K.A. Nuzum
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Elephant Run by Roland Smith
The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John
First Light by Rebecca Stead
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of A Tree by Lauren Tarshis
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf

2009 nominees:
M.M.Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley Blume
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone
shug by Jenny HanPenny from Heaven by Jennifer L. HolmAlabama Moon by Watt KeyThe Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
Heat by Mike Lupica
Oh, Rats! : The Story of rats and people by Albert MarrinProject Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
Wolf Brother by Michelle PaverLife as We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferThe Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan The WINNER:

A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian SelznickLetters From Wolfie by Patti Sherlock
Black Storm Comin' by Diane Lee Wilson2008 nominees:
Adam Canfield of the Slash by Michael WineripChicken Boy by Frances O'Roark DowellCode Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph BruchacCrooked River by Shelley PearsallDefiance by Valerie Hobbs

Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick / Winner
East by Edith PattouListening for Lions by Gloria WhelanThe Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The Misadventures of Maude March, or, Trouble Rides a Fast Horse
by Audrey CouloumbisMVP*: *Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas EvansThe Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne BirdsallPrincess Academy by Shannon HaleThe Ruins of Gorlan by John FlanaganShakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
The Schwa Was Here by Neal ShustermanThunder from the Sea by Joan Hiatt HarlowWorth by A. LaFayeYankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman2007 Nominees:
Airborn by Kenneth OppelBecoming Naomi Leon by Pam Muoz RyanChasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah WilesGregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Hachiko Waits by Leslea NewmanHana's Suitcase: A True Story by Karen Levine
Heartbeat by Sharon CreechIda B: And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly)
Save the World by Katherine HanniganLast Shot by John Feinstein
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean FerrisPeter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley PearsonRed Kayak by Priscilla CummingsThe Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker
Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernanSo B. It by Sarah Weeks / WinnerStar of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude2006 Nominees:
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer CholdenkoAny Small Goodness by Tony Johnston
The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrauThe Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniDarby by Jonathan FuquaEragon by Christopher Paolini / winnerGranny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
Jackie's Wild Seattle by Will HobbsJourney to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
The Last Treasure by Janet S. Anderson
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
The Ravenmaster's Secret by Elvira WoodruffThe River Between Us by Richard Peck
Sahara Special by Esme Raji CodellA Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Y. Green
Tadpole by Ruth WhiteThe Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick2005 nominees:
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchDoing Time Online by Jan SieboldHeir Apparent by Vivian Vande VeldeHoot by Carl Hiaasen / WinnerHouse of the Scorpion by Nancy FarmerKite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
Memory Boy by Will Weaver
Overboard by Elizabeth Fama
Phineas Gage by John FleischmanPictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly GiffRuby Holler by Sharon CreechRunt by Marion Dane BauerThe Shrouding Woman by Loretta Ellsworth
Stand Tall by Joan BauerStraw into Gold by Gary Schmidt
Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
Trouble Don't Last by Shelley PearsallUnder the Same Sky by Cynthia DeFeliceWhen My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

2004 List
Belle Teal by Ann M. Martin
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Dovey Coe by Francis O'Roark Dowell
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Fair Weather by Richard Peck
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Foster's War by Carolyn Reeder
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler
Ghost Soldier by Elaine Marie Alphin
Hidden Talents by David Lubar
Legend of Lady Ilena by Patricia Malone
Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz (Winner)
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Wild Man Island by Will Hobbs
Zach's Lie by Roland Smith

Monarch Award

2013 Master List

2013 Monarch Award Master List
Author Illustrator
Title
Publisher

Burleigh, Robert   Wendell Minor
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart
Crosses the Atlantic
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

DiCamillo, Kate & McGhee, Alison   Tony Fucile
Bink and Gollie
Candlewick Press

Gray, Luli     Giuliano Ferri
Ant and Grasshopper
Margaret K. McElderry Books

Griffiths, Andy    Terry Denton
Big Fat Cow that Goes
Kapow, The Feiwel & Friends

Hills, Tad    Tad Hills
How Rocket Learned to Read
Schwartz & Wade

Krasnesky, Thad     David Perkins
That Cat Can't Stay!
Flashlight Press

Litwin, Eric    James Dean
Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes
HarperCollins

McCarthy, Meghan    Meghan McCarthy
Pop!: the Invention of Bubble Gum
Simon & Schuster/PaulaWiseman Books

McElligott, Matthew    Matthew McElligott
Even Monsters Need Haircuts
Walker & Co.

Palatini, Margie    Barry Moser
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Perdomo, Willie    Bryan Collier
Clemente!
Henry Holt and Co.

Rocco, Jon    John Rocco
Blackout
Disney/Hyperion

Schwartz, David M.          Dwight Kuhn, tracings by Yael Schy
Where in the Wild?:Camouflaged Creatures Concealed &Revealed
Tricycle Press

Stead, Philip Christian    Erin E. Stead
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Roaring Brook Press

Vamos, Samantha R.     Rafael Lopez
The Cazuela that the FarmMaiden Stirred
Charlesbridge

Van Dusen, Chris     Chris Van Dusen
The Circus Ship
Candlewick Press

Viorst, Judith    Lane Smith
Lulu and the Brontosaurus
Antheneum Books for Young Readers

Wiesner, David    David Wiesner
Art & Max
Clarion Books

Willems, Mo   Mo Willems
We Are in a Book
Hyperion Book

Wight, Eric   Eric Wright
Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers


2012 Master List
Becker, Bonny A Birthday for Bear
Lichtenheld, Tom Bridget's Beret
Bishop, Nic Butterflies and Moths
Butler, Dori Hillestad The Case of the Lost Boy
Clements, Andrew Dogku
Urbanovic, Jackie Duck at the Door
Rosenthal, Amy Krause Duck! Rabbit!
DiPucchio, Kelly Grace for President
Fleming, Candace Imogene's Last Stand
Stein, David Ezra Interrupting Chicken
Fucile, Tony Let's Do Nothing!
Smith, Jeff Little Mouse Gets Ready
Scillian, Devin Memoirs of a Goldfish
Aylesworth, Jim The Mitten
Floca, Brian Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
Jenkins, Steve Never Smile at a Monkey: and 17 other important things to remember
Long, Loren Otis
Ryder, Joanne Panda Kindergarten
Barton, Chris Shark vs. Train Little, ### winner
Robinson, Sharon Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson

2011 Master List
Broach, Elise When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
Bruel, Nick Bad Kitty Gets a Bath
Coffelt, Nancy Fred Stays with Me
Deedy, Carmen Agra Martina the Beautiful Cockroach A Cuban Folktale
Frazee, Marla A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
Hopkinson, Deborah Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek
Kajikawa, Kimiko Tsunami!
Katz, Susan Oh, Theodore!: Guinea Pig Poems
Larson, Kirby Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival
MacDonald, Margaret Read The Squeaky Door
Rappaport, Doreen Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Scieszka, Jon Cowboy & Octopus
Scotton, Rob Splat the Cat
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories
Shannon, David Too Many Toys
Stevens, Janet Help Me, Mr. Mutt!: Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems
Tavares, Matt Mudball
Thomas, Jan Rhyming Dust Bunnies
Thomson, Melissa Keena Ford and the Second-grade Mix-up
Willems, Mo Your Pal, Mo Willems Presents Leonardo the Terrible Monster

2010 Master List
Aillaud, Cindy Lou Recess at 20 Below Alaska
Banks, Kate Max’s Words
Bishop, Nic Nic Bishop Spiders
Diakite, Penda I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Ernst, Lisa Campbell The Gingerbread Girl
Fleischman, Paul Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
Friend, Catherine The Perfect Nest
Jacobson, Jennifer Richard Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle
Kerley, Barbara What to Do About Alice?
Look, Lenore Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
Madison, Alan Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
MacLachlan, Patricia Emily MacLachlan Charest Once I Ate a Pie
Nolan, Lucy On the Road
Palatini, Margie The Cheese
Pinkney, Jerry The Little Red Hen
Piven, Hanoch My Dog Is as Smelly as Dirty Socks: And Other Funny Family Portraits
Reynolds, Aaron Chicks and Salsa
Rusch, Elizabeth A Day with No Crayons
Watt, Melanie Scaredy Squirrel
Weeks, Sarah Baa-Choo!

2009 Master List

Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea By Chris Butterworth

Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies By Carolyn Crim

Surprising Sharks By Nicola Davies

The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County By Janice Harrington

George Did It By Suzanne Jurmain

Nora's Ark By Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

Library Lion By Michelle Knudsen

Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid By Megan McDonald

Superhero ABC By McLeod, Bob McLeod

Precious and the Boo Hag By Patricia McKissack

Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude By Kevin O'Malley

Clementine By Sara Pennypacker

Cookies: Bite-size Life Lessons By Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas By Cynthia Rylant

Skippyjon Jones By Judith Schachner

The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School By Judy Sierra

The Great Fuzz Frenzy By Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

There is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me By Alice Walker

Today I Will Fly! By Mo Willems

The Blizzard By Betty Ren Wright


2008 Master List

Hi, Fly Guy by Arnold, Tedd

Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen by Best, Cari

Honey…Honey…Lion!: A Story by Brett, Jan

Bad Kitty by Bruel, Nick

The SOS File by Byars, Betsy Cromer

Boxes for Katje by Betsy Duffey, Laurie Myers , and Fleming, Candace

Traction Man Is Here by Grey, Mini

Miss Daisy Is Crazy! by Gutman, Dan

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig and Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu

Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Kalman, Maira

I Stink! by McMullan, Kate & Jim

Aaaarrgghh! Spider! by Monks, Lydia

Dear World by Noda, Takayo

Fancy Nancy by O’Connor, Jane

The Firekeeper’s Son by Park, Linda Sue

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightening by Schanzer, Rosalyn

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Partners by Silverman, Erica

Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs: How They Guard Sheep by Urbigkit, Cat

The2008 Winner :
If I Built a Car by Van Dusen, Chris

Our Tree Named Steve by Zweibel, Alan

Reading List from the "J" Department

September 2015
brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters by Shannon Hale

August 2015
Voyage of the Sea Wolf by Eve Bunting
Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai

March 2014
What the Moon Said by Gayle Rosengren
 
July 2013
Smile by Raina Telgemeier

June 2013
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
One crazy summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

January 2013
Black Radishes by Susan Lynn Meyer
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

June - December 2012 
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Pie by Sarah Weeks
Nest for Celeste by Henry Coles 
Poppy by Avi

May 2012
the whole story of a half girl  by veera hiranandani

March 2012
Just Grace by Charise Mericle Harper
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment by Sundee Tucker Frazier

December 2011
Familiars Adam Epstein/Andrew Jacobson
How Tia Lola Came to Stay Alverez, Julia
Day-Glo Brothers Barton, Chris
Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy: The Hero Revealed Boniface, William ill
Name of this Book Secret "Bosch, Pseudonymous
Because of Mr. Terupt "Buyea, Bob
My Dog, My Hero Byars, Betsy
Story of Snow Cassino, Mark
Redwoods Chin, Jason
Room One Clements, Andrew
Love that Dog Creech, Sharon
Ruby Holler Creech, Sharon
Touch blue Cynthia Lord
Witches Dahl, Roald
Henrietta Hornbuckle's Circus of Life De Guzman, Michael
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane DiCamillo, Kate
Trouble with Chickens Doreen Cronin
Out of My Mind Draper, Sharon
Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It Frazier, Sundee T.
In the Garden with Dr. Carver Grigsby, Susan
Road to Paris Grimes, Nikki
Honus and Me Gutman, Dan
Running Out of Time Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Kubla Khan the Emporer of Everything Krull, Kathleen
Story of Salt "Kurlansky, Mark
Giant-slayer Lawrence, Iain
Keeping Score Linda Sue Park
Thing about Georgie Lisa Graff
Umbrella Summer Lisa Graff
Larger than Life Lara "Mackall, Dandi Daley
Word after word after word MacLachlan
Sixty-eight Rooms "Malone, Marianne
War Horse Michael Morpurgo
Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great Morris, Gerald
Zen Shorts Muth, John
Herbert's Wormhole Nelson, Peter
Lawn Boy Paulsen, Gary
Sit-In Pinkney, Andrea
Captain Nobody Pitchford, Dean
Guyku Raczka, Bob
Ruth and the Green Book "Ramsey, Calvin A.
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat Riddell, Chris
Fearless: The story of racing legend Louise Smith Rosenstock, Barbara
Dark Emperor and other poems of the night Sidman, Joyce
Mirror Mirror Singer, Marilyn
Blue Shoe Townley, Roderick
What Happened on Fox Street Tricia Springstubb
Justin Case: School, Drool, and other Daily Disasters Vail, Rachel
Shadows: The Book of Elsewhere West, Jacqueline
All Star! Honus Wagner and the most famous baseball card ever Yolen, Jane

November 2011
Addy Across the Prairie by Laurie Lowlor

October 2011
Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis
Word after Word After Word by Patricia MacLachlan
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderDear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

September 2011
Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm and Andrew Arnold

All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912 : the Day the Titanic Sank by Dan Brown

Bad news for outlaws: the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Passage to Freedom: the Sughihara story by Ken Mochizuki

Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar, Louis
Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories by Sandra Markle
Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise
Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka

August 2011Dragon of the red dawn by Mary Pope Osborne
14 Cows for America by Carmen Deedy
All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912 : the Day the Titanic Sank by Dan Brown
Bad news for outlaws: the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

April 2011
Ghost Hunter by Michelle Paver

December 2010
Savvy by Ingrid Law

November 2010
Halt's Peril by John Flanagan
The Kings of Clonmel by John Flanagan
Nic Bishop Frogs by Nic Bishop

October 2010
Erak's Ransom by John Flanagan
Diamond Willow by Helen Frost

September 2010
Drawn from New England: Tasha Tudor, A Portrait in Words and Pictures by Bethany Tudor
Ways to Live Forever by Sally NichollsHow to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
Sky Boys: How they Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln by Judith St. George
Boys of Steel by Marc Tyler Nobleman

August 2010
Magic Tree House Christmas in Camelot by Mary Pope Osborne
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Hachiko Waits by Leslea Newman
Houdini Box by Brian Selznik
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
Where I Live by Eileen Spinelli
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
A Friendship for Today by Patricia C. McKissack

July 2010
Ivy & Bean by Annie Barrows
Being Teddy Roosevelt by Claudia Mills
Kenny & the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizzi

May 2009 "Winnies's War" by Jenny Moss
"Oath Breaker" by Michelle Paver
"All the Lovely Bad Ones" by Mary Dowling Hahn
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

April 2009
Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon and Dean HaleGossamer by Lois Lowry
Naked Mole-Rat Letters by Mary Amato
The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff
From Lunch With Russia by Bruce Hale (school, mystery, critters) Chet Gecko Mystery Series
Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell (Vietnam, soldiers, brothers)
The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo (violin, parents, secrets)March 2009
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George (dragons, embroidery, royalty)
The London Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (London, missing cousin, jokers, lies)

December 2008
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

November 2008
Rangers Apprentice the Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan
The Wright Sister by Richard Maurer
Jane Addams : champion of democracy by Judith Bloom Fradin

October 2008
Bull Run by Sid Fleischman
What A Year by Tomie DePaola
On My Way by Tomie DePaola
Here We All Are by Tomie DePaola
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall

September 2008
Tennyson by Lesley M.M. Blume

August 2008
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
The Calder Game by Blue Balliett
No Pretty Pictures : a child of war by Anita Lobel

July 2008The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Syria... in pictures
The Wright 3 by Blue BallietIraq by Byron Augustin
Outcast by Michelle Paver

June 2008
The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Patterson
The Circlemaker by Maxine Rose SchurThe Battle for Skandia by Flanagan, John
A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant
At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant
Rules by Cynthia Lord
The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer

May 2008
Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas By Cynthia Rylant
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
The Two Pincesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson LevineFar From Normal by Kate Klise

April 2008
Stink the Incredible Shrinking Kid by Megan McDonaldClementine By Sara PennypackerSpirit Walker by Michelle PaverSea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea By Chris ButterworthHenry and the Buccaneer Bunnies By Carolyn CrimSurprising Sharks By Nicola DaviesThe Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County By Janice Harrington
George Did It By Suzanne JurmainNora's Ark By Natalie Kinsey-WarnockLibrary Lion By Michelle KnudsenSuperhero ABC By McLeod, Bob McLeodPrecious and the Boo Hag By Patricia McKissackOnce Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude By Kevin O'MalleyCookies: Bite-size Life Lessons By Amy Krouse RosenthalThe Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School By Judy SierraThe Great Fuzz Frenzy By Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens CrummelThere is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me By Alice Walker
The Blizzard By Betty Ren Wright
George Did It By Suzanne JurmainThe Icebound Land: Book Three The Rangers Apprentice by John FlanaganAl Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer CholdenkoWolf Brother by Michelle Paver
The Burning Bridge: Book Two The Rangers Apprentice by John Flanagan
Popcorn: Poems by James Stevenson
Granny Torrelli makes Soup by Sharon Creech
Letters From Wolfie by Patti Sherlock
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

March 2008
Beardance by Will Hobbes
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
Bearstone by Will Hobbes ( reread)
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Singing Hands by Delia Ray

January 2008
The Bonemender by Holly Bennett
Crooked River by Shelley Pearsall

December 2007
Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

November 2007
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
Ranger's Apprentice by Joseph Flanagan

October 2007
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice
MVP* by Douglas Evans
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

September 2007
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

July 2007
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Deliver us from Normal by Kate Klise
Defiance by Valerie Hobbs

June 2007
Runaround by Helen HemphillThe misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis

May 2007
The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer
The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
the higher power of licky by susan patron
More Perfect than the Moon by Patricia MacLachlan
Caleb's Story by Patricia MacLachlan
Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan
Grandfather's Dance by Patricia MacLachlan
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
The White Elephant by Sid Fleischman

April 2007
When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funke
Inkheart by Corneila Funke
Witches by Roald Dahl

January 2007
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
Worth by A. LaFaye

December 2006
Facing the Lion : Growing up Maasi on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer

November 2006
Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
Meow Meow Mischief by Ann Whitehead Nagda

July 2006
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

January 2006
The conch bearer : a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Piglet and Mama by Margaret Wild.

December 2005
The river between us by Richard Peck.

November 2005
A single shard by Linda Sue Park.

October 2005
The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread by Kate DiCamillo.