☆ Jacob Have I Loved : Katherine Paterson [1981]
☆ A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers : Nancy Willard [1982]
☆ Dicey's Song : Cynthia Voigt [1983]
☆ Dear Mr. Henshaw : Beverly Cleary [1984]
☆ The Hero and the Crown : Robin McKinley [1985]
☆ Sarah, Plain and Tall : Patricia MacLachlan [1986]
☆ The Whipping Boy : Sid Fleischman [1987]
☆ Lincoln: A Photobiography : Russell Freedman [1988]
☆ Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices : Paul Fleischman [1989]
☆ Number the Stars : Lois Lowry [1990]
☆ Summer of the Swans : Betsy Byars [1971]
☆ Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH : Robert C. O'Brien [1972]
☆ Julie of the Wolves : Jean Craighead George [1973]
☆ The Slave Dancer : Paula Fox [1974]
☆ M. C. Higgins, the Great : Virginia Hamilton [1975]
☆ The Grey King : Susan Cooper [1976]
☆ Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry : Mildred D. Taylor [1977]
☆ Bridge to Terabithia : Katherine Paterson [1978]
☆ The Westing Game : Ellen Raskin [1979]
☆ A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 : Joan W. Blos [1980]
☆ Island of the Blue Dolphins : Scott O'Dell [1961]
☆ The Bronze Bow : Elizabeth George Speare [1962]
☆ A Wrinkle in Time : Madeleine [1963]
☆ It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville [1964]
☆ Shadow of a Bull : Maia Wojciechowska [1965]
☆ I, Juan de Pareja : Elizabeth Borton de Trevino [1966]
☆ Up a Road Slowly : Irene Hunt [1967]
☆ From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler : E. L. Konigsburg [1968]
☆ The High King : Lloyd Alexander [1969]
☆ Sounder : William H. Armstrong [1970]