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

 
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