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
2001 Medal Winner - A Year Down Yonder by by 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
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
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
2004 Medal Winner - The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a
Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
Honor Books:
- Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
- An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
2005 Medal Winner - Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
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
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
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
2008 Medal Winner - Good Masters! 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
2009 Medal Winner - The Graveyard Book by Neil 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
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
2011 Medal Winner - Moon over Manifest 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
2012 Medal Winner - Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Honor Books:
- Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
2013 Medal Winner - 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
2014 Medal Winner - Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
Honor Books:
- Doll Bones by Holly Black
- The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
- One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
- Paperboy by Vince Vawter
2015 Medal Winner - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Honor Books:
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
2016 Medal Winner - Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
Honor Books:
- The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
- Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
