2002 Nominees
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  • Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix
  • Backwater by Joan Bauer 
  • Bandit's Moon by Sid Fleischman 
  • Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo 
  • Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis 
  • Burning Up by Caroline Cooney 
  • Can You Feel the Thunder? by Lynn E. McElfresh 
  • Crash by Jerry Spinelli 
  • Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine 
  • Holes by Louis Sachar (Winner)
  • A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt by C. Coco De Young 
  • Million Dollar Shot by Don Gutman 
  • Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise 
  • Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong 
  • Sunwing by Kenneth Oppel 
  • Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka 
  • The Trolls by Polly Horvath 
  • When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt 
  • You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman by Claudia Mills
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