2010 - All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
2009 -
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2008 - Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
2007 - So B. It by Sarah Weeks
2006 - Eragon by Christopher Paolini
2005 - Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
2004 - Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
2003 - Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
2002 - Holes by Louis Sachar
2001 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
2000 - Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
1999 - Frindle by Andrew Clements
1998 - Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
1997 - The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
1996 - The Giver by Lois Lowry
1995 - Flight #116 is Down by Caroline Cooney
1994 - Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1993 - Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1992 - Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1991 - Matilda by Roald Dahl
1990 - Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
1989 - The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
1988 - Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
