1996 Nominees
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• All About Sam by Lois Lowry
• Baby by Patricia MacLachlan
• Backyard Dragon by Betsy Sterman
• Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
• Buried in Ice by Owen Beattie
• Canyons by Gary Paulsen
• Crazy Lady! by Jane Conly
• The Dark Thirty by Patricia McKissack
• The Day Elvis Came to Town by Jan Marino
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (Winner)
• Heart of a Champion by Carl Deuker
• Horror at the Haunted House by Peg Kehret
• Jennifer Murdley's Toad by Bruce Coville
• Little House on Rocky Ridge by Roger Lea MacBride
• The Place of Lions by Eric Campbell
• Someone Was Watching by David Patneaude
• Squashed by Joan Bauer
• Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn
• Timothy of the Cay by Theodore Taylor
• Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer