2013 MedalWinner: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Honor Books:
- Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
- Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
- Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
2012 Medal Winner:Dead End in Norvelt byJack Gantos
Honor Books:
- Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
2011Medal Winner: Moon overManifest by Clare Vanderpool
Honor Books:
- Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
- Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
- Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
2010 Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Honor Books:
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
- The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
2009Medal Winner: TheGraveyard Book byNeil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean
Honor Books:
- The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small
- The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
- Savvy by Ingrid Law
- After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
2008Medal Winner: GoodMasters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
Honor Books:
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
- Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan
Honor Books:
- Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm,
- Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
- Rules by Cynthia Lord
2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Honor Books:
- Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler
- Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
- Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott
2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by CynthiaKadohata
Honor Books:
- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
- The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of aMouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated byTimothy Basil Ering,
Honor Books:
- Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
- An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Honor Books:
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
- Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
- A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
- Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Honor Books:
- Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
- Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonderby Richard Peck
Honor Books:
- Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
- Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
- The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books:
- Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis
- Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
- 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola