2010 Honor Books
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
The Monstrumologist: William James Henry by Rick Yancey
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes
2009 Honor Books
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Nation by Terry Pratchett
2008 Honor Books
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day
by Judith Clarke
Repossessed
by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
By Stephanie Hemphill
2006 Honor Books
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak
John Lennon by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
2005 Honor Books
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Chanda’s Secret by Allan Stratton
2004
Honor Books
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Keesha's House by Helen Frost
Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
2003
Honor Books
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
2002
Honor Books
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art edited by Jan Greenberg
Freewill by Chris Lynch
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
2001
Honor Books
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
2000
Honor Books
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Skellig by David Almond
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson