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P A S T
W I N N E R S |
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Year |
Title |
Author |
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2025 |
Ice Cream Man: How
Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better |
Glenda Armand and Kim
Freeman |
|
2024 |
The
Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale |
Charly Palmer |
|
2023 |
Memoirs of a Tortoise |
Devin Scillian |
|
2022 |
The Oldest Student:
How Mary Walker Learned to Read |
Rita Lorraine
Hubbard |
|
2021 |
If I Built a School |
Chris Van Dusen |
|
2020 |
El Chupacabras |
Adam Rubin |
|
2019 |
Sergeant Reckless: The
True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero |
Patricia McCormick |
|
2018 |
The Last Kids on Earth |
Max Brallier |
|
2017 |
Roller Girl |
Victoria Jamieson |
|
2016 |
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop |
Laban Carrick Hill |
|
2015 |
The Day the Crayons
Quit |
Drew Daywalt |
|
2014 |
Ten Rules You
Absolutely Must Not Break if you Want to Survive the School Bus |
John Grandits |
|
2013 |
Postcards From Camp |
Simms Taback |
|
2012 |
The Strange Case of
Origami Yoda |
Tom Angleberger |
|
2011 |
The Uglified Ducky: A
Maynard Noose Tale |
Willy Claflin |
|
2010 |
Help Me, Mr. Mutt!: Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems |
Janet Stevens and
Susan Stevens Crummel |
|
2009 |
One Potato, Two Potato |
Cynthia DeFelice |
|
2008 |
On
the Road (Down Girl and Sit series) |
Lucy Nolan |
|
2007 |
Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma |
Joe Hayes |
|
2006 |
Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta |
Lisa Wheeler and Mark
Siegel |
|
2005 |
Togo |
Robert J. Blake |
|
2004 |
Shoeless Joe and Black Betsy |
Phil Bildner |
|
2003 |
The Golden Mare, the Firebird,
and the Magic Ring |
Ruth Sanderson |
|
2002 |
Because of Winn-Dixie |
Kate DiCamillo |
|
2001 |
Cook-A-Doodle-Doo! |
Janet Stevens & Susan
Stevens Crummel |
|
2000 |
The Ghost of Fossil Glen |
Cynthia DeFelice |
|
1999 |
Verdi |
Janell Cannon |
|
1998 |
Tornado |
Betsy Byars |
|
1997 |
Math Curse |
Jon Scieszka |
|
1996 |
Time For Andrew: A Ghost Story |
Mary Downing Hahn |
|
1995 |
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales |
Jon Scieszka |
|
1994 |
Shiloh |
Phyllis Reynolds
Naylor |
|
1993 |
The Houdini Box |
Brian Selznick |
|
1992 |
Snot Stew |
Bill Wallace |
|
1991 |
Aliens for Breakfast |
Jonathan Etra &
Stephanie Spinner |
|
1990 |
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom |
Louis Sachar |
|
1989 |
Wait 'Til Helen Comes |
Mary Downing Hahn |
|
1988 |
Christina's Ghost |
Betty Ren Wright |
|
1987 |
The Hot and Cold Summer |
Johanna Hurwitz |
|
1986 |
The Dollhouse Murders |
Betty Ren Wright |
|
1985 |
Skinnybones |
Barbara Park |
|
1984 |
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade |
Barthe DeClements |
|
1983 |
A
Dog Called Kitty |
Bill Wallace |
|
1982 |
Superfudge |
Judy Blume |
|
1981 |
Ramona and Her Father |
Beverly Cleary |