2005 Nominees
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• Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch
• Doing Time Online by Jan Siebold
• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Winner)
• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
• Memory Boy by Will Weaver
• Overboard by Elizabeth Fama
• Phineas Gage by John Fleischman
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
• Runt by Marion Dane Bauer
• The Shrouding Woman by Loretta Ellsworth
• Stand Tall by Joan Bauer
• Straw into Gold by Gary Schmidt
• Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
• Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
• Under the Same Sky by Cynthia DeFelice
• When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park