2009 Winners

THE CANDY SHOP WAR

By Brandon Mull

IF I BUILT A CAR

By Chris Van Dusen

THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS

By Conn and Hal Iggulden

WILDWOOD DANCING

By Juliet Marillier

DOGKU

By Andrew Clements, Illustrated by Tim Bowers

Past Years

Fiction
2008 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

2007 Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

2006 Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke

2005 City of Ember by Jeanne Du Prau

2004 Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

2003 Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

2002 Midnight Magic by Avi

2001 Secret of Platform 13 by Eva lbbotson

2000 Frindle by Andrew Clements

1999 Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret

1998 Someone Was Watching by David Patneaude

1997 Watchdog and the Coyotes by Bill Wallace

1996 Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn

1995 Ghosts of Mercy Manor by Betty Ren Wright

1994 Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville

1993 Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn

1992 A Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar

1991 Matilda by Roald Dahl

1990 This Island Isn’t Big Enough for the Four of Us by Gary Greer

1989 Trapped in Death Cave by Bill Wallace

1988 Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

1987 Skinny Jones by Barbara Park

1986 Just Me and the Weirdos by Jane Sutton

1985 Stone Fox by John Gardiner

1984 Lost in the Devil’s Desert by Gloris Skurzynski

1983 The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling

1982 Superfudge by Judy Blume

1981 Eddie’s Menagerie by Carolyn Haywood

1981 The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring by John Bellairs

1980 Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary

Informational

2008 What if you Met a Pirate by Jan Adkins

2007 Life-Size Dinosaurs by David Bergen

2006 Actual Size by Steve Jenkins

2005 How Angel Peterson Got his Name by Gary Paulson

2004 Leonardo’s Horse by Jean Fritz

2003 Tiger Math : Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger by Ann Whitehead

2002 The Snake Scientist by Sy Montgomery

2001 If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz

2000 A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick

1999 Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki

1998 It’s a Spoon, Not a Shovel by Caralyn Buehner

1997 Never Take a Pig to Lunch and Other Poems About the Fun of Eating by Nadine Bernard Westcott

1996 Mummies and Their Mysteries by Charlotte Wilcox

1995 Sadako by Eleanor Coerr

1994 Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross Sections by Richard Platt

1993 Dolphin Adventure by Wayne Grover

1992 Ant Colony by H. Fischner-Nagel

1991 Bill Peet : An Autobiography by Bill Peet

1990 How To Make Pop-Ups by Joan Irvine

1989 Your Amazing Senses by Ron Van Der Meer

1988 How Much Is A Million by David Schwartz

1987 ( There were No Nominees or Winners for this category in 1987 )

1986 Great Painters by Piero Ventura

Children’s Picture

2008 Mommy? by Maurice Sendak, Arthur Yorinks and Matthew Reinhart

2007 Where’s the Dragon by Jason Hook

2006 Some Dogs Do by Jez Alborough

2005 Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin

2004 Bertie was a Watchdog by Rick Walton

2003 Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell

2002 Sitting Ducks by Michael Bedard

2001 Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester

2000 A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

1999 Watch Out! Big Bro’s Coming! by Jez Alborough

1998 Anansi and the Talking Melon by Eric Kimmel

1997 A Job for Wittilda by Caralyn Buehner

1996 Two of Everything : A Chinese Folk Tale by Lily Toy Hong

Young Adult

2008 Bad Kitty by Michele Jeffers

2007 The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

2006 Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

2005 Eragon by Christopher Paolini

2004 Stormbreaker by Anthony Harowitz

2003 Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

2002 Downsiders by Neal Schusterman

2001 Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories by Richard Peck

2000 Little Sister by Kara Dalkey

1999 SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting

1998 Merlin Effect by T.A. Barron

1997 In My Father’s House by Ann Rinaldi

1996 Nothing to Fear by Jackie French Koller

1995 Amazing Gracie by A. E. Cannon

1994 True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1993 Sniper by Theodore Taylor

1992 Don’t Look Back by Lois Duncan

1991 Other Side of Dark by Joan Nixon