Award+Winners

 Amelia Bloomer Award Winners:  Lists of recommended feminist books for children sponsored by the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association. The criteria for selection include significant feminist content, excellence in writing, appealing format for nonfiction, and age appropriateness.

Violet the Pilot Author: Breen, Steve Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, Pub Date: 2008 Young Violet's only friend is her dog, Orville,until one of her homemade flying machines takes her to the rescue of a Boy Scout troop in trouble. fiction, picture book, all ages

Grace for president Author: DiPucchio, Kelly S.  Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children,  Pub Date: 2008. Grace campaigns for president of her grade, but when her competition seems to have the support of all the male voters, she must use all her campaigning skills to win them over by showing that she is the best person for the job. fiction, picture book, all ages

That Book Woman Author:  Henson, Heather Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Pub Date: c2008. A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents. fiction, picture book, all ages

Running Shoes Author:  Lipp, Frederick Publisher: Charlesbridge, Pub Date: 2008. Sophy, a determined young girl living in an impoverished Cambodian village, fulfills her dream of going to school--with the help of a pair of running shoes. fiction picture book, all ages

A Girl Named Dan Author: Mackall, Dandi Daley Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press, Pub Date: 2008 Dandi enjoys nothing more than baseball, and so after the boys at school tell her their lunchtime game is now boys only, she enters an essay contest hoping to become a bat boy for the Kansas City A's, not realizing the contest is for boys only. Includes author's note on Title IX. fiction, picture book all ages

USBBY 2009 OUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL BOOKS

The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) serves as the U.S. national section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), which was founded to promote international understanding and good will through books for children and teenagers

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9781845076436 Summary: When Alvina's two grannies come for a visit when her parents take a vacation, things suddenly go very wrong as the granny from Trinidad and the granny from England clash over the simplest of things--forcing Alvina to be the peacemaker between the two!. In the town all year 'round  Author: Berner, Rotraut Susanne (Germany) Publisher: Chronicle Books, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9780811864749 Summary: Pictures depict busy people in a town throughout the year. //**Little beauty**// Author: Browne, Anthony (United Kingdom) Publisher: Candlewick Press, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9780763639594 Summary: When a gorilla who knows sign language tells his keepers that he is lonely, they bring him a very special friend. //**Minji's salon**// Author:  Choung, Eun-hee (South Korea) Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9781933605678 Summary: While her mother is getting her own hair done, Minji tries out every step of the process on the dog, using the articles at hand--including ice cream for hair dye. //**How to heal a broken wing**// Author: Graham, Bob (Australia) Publisher: Candlewick Press, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9780763639037 Summary: When Will finds a bird with a broken wing, he takes it home and cares for it, hoping in time it will be able to return to the sky. //**Traction Man meets Turbo Dog**// Author: Grey, Mini (United Kingdom) Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9780375855832 Summary: Traction Man, an action figure, teams up with the high-tech but not-so-bright Turbodog to rescue Scrubbing Brush, his missing sidekick, from the terrible underworld of the bin. //**Garmann's summer**// Author: Hole, Stian (Norway) Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 710 Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9780802853394 Summary: As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them. //**Ellen's apple tree**// Author: Kruusval, Catarina (Sweden) Publisher: R "&" S Books ; Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9789129669053 Summary: Always happy playing around the apple tree in the backyard, Ellen and Ollie are devastated when it gets knocked down during a winter storm, but when her mother tells her that it can be replaced, Ellen can't wait for spring. Who made this cake? Author: Nakagawa, Chihiro (Japan) Publisher: Front Street, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9781590785959 Summary: While a boy and his parents go for an outing, little people invade the house and use their big construction equipment to bake a cake. **//Elephants never forget!//** Author: Ravishankar, Anushka (India) Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9780618997848 Summary: A lonely elephant meets a herd of buffaloes and decides to stay with them, but when they meet up with some elephants, he must make an important decision. //**I feel a foot!**// Author: Rinck, Maranke (The Netherlands) Publisher: Lemniscaat, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Younger Kids ISBN: 9781590786383 Summary: Five animal friends, awakened by a strange noise, discover a creature in the dark that seems to be a giant-sized version of each of them. //**My dad's a birdman**// Author: Almond, David (United Kingdom) Publisher: Candlewick Press, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 420 Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9780763636678 Summary: In a small, rainy town in the north of England, Lizzie watches as her father, as well as other family members and friends, begin acting strangely as they all prepare for the Great Human Bird Competition. //**We are all born free: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in pictures**// Author: [Amnesty International] (United Kingdom) Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, Pub Date: 2008. Nonfiction Older Kids ISBN: 9781845076504 Summary: A commemorative edition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly offers insight into the world's shared views about the rights of all people, with illustrations by artists from around the world. //**Shin-chi's canoe**// Author: Campbell, Nicola I. (Canada) Publisher: Groundwood Books, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9780888998576 Summary: Forced to use only their English names and not speak to their siblings at school, Shinchi holds fast to the canoe given to him by his father and looks forward to the day when the salmon return to the river, hopeful that things will then improve for his family and the tribe he loves. //**The donkey of Gallipoli: a true story of courage in World War I**// Author: Greenwood, Mark (Australia) Publisher: Candlewick Press, Pub Date: 2008. Nonfiction Older Kids ISBN: 0763639133 Summary: Offers the true tale of a young English boy who, due to his love and understanding of donkeys, enlisted in World War I as a stretcher bearer and courageously carried more than three hundred wounded Allied soldiers off the battlefield as bullets and bombsblew up all around him. //**A fistful of pearls and other tales from Iraq**// Author: Laird, Elizabeth (United Kingdom) Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, Pub Date: 2008. Nonfiction Older Kids ISBN: 9781845078119 Summary: Collects a series of tales and folklore from Iraq, including the story of a conceited tailor commissioned to make a suit of stone, a lazy man masquerading as a magician, and an old pot that appeared to give birth. . Dog lost  Author: Lee, Ingrid (United Kingdom) Publisher: Scholastic, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 570 Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9780545085786 Summary: After living happily in a warm home with an eleven-year-old boy, a pit bull terrier is forced to survive on the streets, where its brave deeds surprise many residents who dislike or fear pit bulls. One hen: how one small loan made a big difference  Author: Milway, Katie Smith (Canada) Publisher: Kids Can Press, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 810 Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9781554530281 Summary: Based on a true story, tells of how a poor Ghanaian boy buys a chicken through a community loan program, which eventually helps lift him, his mother, and his community out of poverty. //**Ottoline and the yellow cat**// Author: Riddell, Chris (United Kingdom) Publisher: Harper Collins Children's Books, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 760 Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9780061448799 Summary: Sleuth Ottoline Brown, with the help of her hairy best friend, Mr. Munroe the cat, eagerly takes on her latest case, to catch the jewel thief and dog-napping bandit who has been terrorizing the high-society residents of Big City. //**Gervelie's journey**// Author: Robinson, Anthony (United Kingdom) Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, Pub Date: 2008. Nonfiction Older Kids ISBN: 9781845076528 Summary: When political issues put her family in danger, Nkoula is forced to leave her home in the Republic of Congo and seek safety in the Ivory Coast before making the long trip to Europe to start her life anew in England in this moving story about a refugee and her long trek to find a safe home to call her own. //**The great snake**// Author: Taylor, Sean (United Kingdom) Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, Pub Date: 2008. Nonfiction Older Kids ISBN: 978184507529 Summary: The mysteries and natural wonders of the rain forest are presented to young readers through an explorative journey deep within //the// Amazon along the long and winding Rio Afua. **//The shepherd's granddaughter//** Author: Carter, Anne (Canada) Publisher: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press ; Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 9780888999023 Summary: Amani, a young Palestinian girl, looks to the meadows of the Firdoos to get her sheep the food they need, but when Israeli settlers impede her ability to get to the pasture, she must try to find a peaceful solution to the problem. //**Crossing to paradise**// Author: Crossley-Holland, Kevin (United Kingdom) Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 9780545058667 Summary: Having lived a simple life with few notable accomplishments, Gatty's life is forever changed when she is chosen to join a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and the spirit of the city impacts her soul in ways she could have never imagined. //**The girl who saw lions**// Author: Doherty, Berlie (United Kingdom) Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 790 Fiction Teens ISBN: 9781596433779 Summary: In alternating voices, thirteen-year-old Rosa and her mother are trying to adopt a Tanzanian child in England, while in Tanzania, nine-year-old Abela watches her family die and her uncle illegally sends her to England, in the hopes of selling her. //**The London Eye mystery**// Author: Dowd, Siobhan (United Kingdom) Publisher: David Fickling Books, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 640 Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9780375849763 Summary: When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim. //**The graveyard book**// Author: Gaiman, Neil (United Kingdom) Publisher: HarperCollins, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 820 Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9780060530921 Summary: Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. //**Eon: Dragoneye reborn**// Author: Goodman, Alison (Australia) Publisher: Viking Children's Books, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 9780670062270 Summary: Eon has disguised herself as a boy in order to study Dragon Magic and become a Dragoneye, one of a select group that forms a conduit to the power of energy dragons, but if the secret of her sex comes out, she will be killed. //**The dragonfly pool**// Author: Ibbotson, Eva (United Kingdom) Publisher: Duttons Childrens Books, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 9780525420644 Summary: Tally, a twelve-year-old English girl, and her classmates at Delderton, a progressive boarding school, help Karil, the young prince of Bergania, escape into England after the Nazis invade Bergania and kill the king. //**The swan kingdom**// Author: Marriott, Zoe (United Kingdom) Publisher: Candlewick Press, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 0763634816 Summary: When Alexa's mother is killed, her father marries a cunning and powerful woman and her brothers disappear, sending Alexa on a long, dangerous journey as she attempts to harness the mystical power she inherited from her mother and restore the kingdom to its proper balance. //**Forever Rose**// Author: McKay, Hilary (United Kingdom) Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 870 Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9781416954866 Summary: As Christmas approaches, eleven-year-old Rose, the youngest member of the eccentric Casson family, discovers that life is filled with both catastrophic problems and wonderful surprises. //**Ways to live forever**// Author: Nicholls, Sally (United Kingdom) Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 580 Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9780545069489 Summary: Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him. //**Nation**// Author: Pratchett, Terry (United Kingdom) Publisher: HarperCollins, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 790 Fiction Teens ISBN: 9780061433016 Summary: After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives. //**Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit**// Author: Uehashi, Nahoko (Japan) Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9780545005425 Summary: The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster and the prince's father, the Mikado. //**Rex Zero, the king of nothing**// Author: Wynne-Jones, Tim (Canada) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Pub Date: c2008. Fiction Older Kids ISBN: 9780374362591 Summary: In 1962 Ottawa, eleven-year-old Rex Norton-Norton faces several confusing mysteries, including his father's troubling secrets from World War II, the problems of a beautiful but unhappy woman named Natasha, what to do about his mean and vindictive teacher, and whether or not he should even be concerned about these things. //**Bog child**// Author: Dowd, Siobhan (United Kingdom) Publisher: David Fickling Books, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 9780385751698 Summary: In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
 * //My two grannies//** [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9781845076436 caption="My two grannies Bookjacket"]] Author: Benjamin, Floella (United Kingdom)

//**Newes from the dead**// Author: Hooper, Mary (United Kingdom) Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 1180 Fiction Teens ISBN: 9781596433557 Summary: In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn. //**The landing**// Author: Ibbitson, John (Canada) Publisher: Kids Can Press, Pub Date: 2008. Lexile: 1020 Fiction Teens ISBN: 9781554532346 Summary: After the Great Depression, Ben, who sneaks in violin practice between chores, gets a new job fixing up a grand old cottage on nearby Pine Island where he is introduced to a world of wealth and privilege, making him even more desperate to escape Cook's Landing. //**Would you**// Author: Jocelyn, Marthe (Canada) Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books, Pub Date: c2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 9780375937033 Summary: When her beloved sister, Claire, steps in front of a car and winds up in a coma, Nat's anticipated summer of working, hanging around with friends, and seeing Claire off to college is transformed into a nightmare of doctors, hospitals, and well-meaning neighbors. //**Tiger moon**// Author: Michaelis, Antonia (Germany) Publisher: Amulet Books, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 9780810994812 Summary: Sold to be the eighth wife of a rich and cruel merchant, Safia, also called Raka, tries to escape her fate by telling stories of Farhad the thief, his companion Nitish the white tiger, and their travels across India to retrieve a famous jewel that will save a kidnapped princess from becoming the bride of a demon king. //**The knife of never letting go**// Author: Ness, Patrick (United Kingdom) Publisher: Candlewick Press, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 9780763639310 Summary: Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World. //**Here lies Arthur**// Author: Reeve, Philip (United Kingdom) Publisher: Scholastic, Pub Date: 2007. Fiction Teens ISBN: 0439955335 Summary: When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur. //**Daughter of war**// Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk (Canada) Publisher: Fitzhenry "&" Whiteside, Pub Date: 2008. Fiction Teens ISBN: 9781554550449 Summary: Armenian Marta disguises herself as a Muslim to escape genocide in Turkey, and must now locate her sister and fianc?e also who may have hidden their true identities.

Newbury Awards 2009-1990

2009 Medal Winner: **//The Graveyard Book//** by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins) 2008 Medal Winner: //**Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village**// by **Laura Amy Schlitz** (Candlewick) 2007 Medal Winner: **//The Higher Power of Lucky//** by **Susan Patron**, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson) 2006 Medal Winner: **//Criss Cross//** by **Lynne Rae Perkins** (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins) 2005 Medal Winner: **Kira-Kira** by **Cynthia Kadohata** (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
 * Honor Books**:
 * //**The Underneath**// by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)
 * **//The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom//** by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt)
 * //**Savvy**// by Ingrid Law (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media)
 * **//After Tupac & D Foster//** by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers)
 * Honor Books**:
 * //**Elijah of Buxton**// by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
 * **//The Wednesday Wars//** by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
 * //**Feathers**// by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)
 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Penny from Heaven//** by **Jennifer L. Holm**, (Random House)
 * **//Hattie Big Sky//** by **Kirby Larson** (Delacorte Press)
 * //**Rules**// by **Cynthia Lord** (Scholastic)
 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Whittington//** by **Alan Armstrong**, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Random House)
 * **//Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow//** by **Susan Campbell Bartoletti** (Scholastic)
 * **//Princess Academy//** by **Shannon Hale** (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
 * **//Show Way//** by **Jacqueline Woodson,** illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Al Capone Does My Shirts//** by **Gennifer Choldenko** (G.P. Putnam's Sons/a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)
 * **//The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights"//** by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
 * **//Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy//** by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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, (Candlewick Press)


 * 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 (Clarion Books)

2003 Medal Winner: **//Crispin: The Cross of Lead//** by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//The House of the Scorpion//** by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
 * **//Pictures of Hollis Woods//** by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)
 * **//Hoot//** by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
 * **//A Corner of The Universe//** by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
 * **//Surviving the Applewhites//** by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)


 * 2002 Medal Winner: ** **//A Single Shard//** by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Everything on a Waffle//** by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
 * **//Carver: A Life In Poems//** by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)


 * 2001 Medal Winner: ** **//A Year Down Yonder//** by by Richard Peck (Dial)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Hope Was Here//** by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
 * **//Because of Winn-Dixie//** by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
 * **//Joey Pigza Loses Control//** by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
 * **//The Wanderer//** by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)


 * 2000 Medal Winner: ** **//Bud, Not Buddy//** by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Getting Near to Baby//** by by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)
 * **//Our Only May Amelia//** by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
 * **//26 Fairmount Avenue//** by Tomie dePaola (Putnam)

**1999 Medal Winner:** **//Holes//** by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)


 * Honor Book:**
 * **//A Long Way from Chicago//** by Richard Peck (Dial)

1998 Medal Winner:   //**Out of the Dust**// by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Ella Enchanted//** by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
 * **//Lily's Crossing//** by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
 * **//Wringer//** by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)


 * 1997 Medal Winner: //The View from Saturday// by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

Honor Books:**
 * **//A Girl Named Disaster//** by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
 * **//Moorchild//** by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
 * **//The Thief//** by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
 * **//Belle Prater's Boy//** by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)


 * 1996 Medal Winner: ** **//The Midwife's Apprentice//** by Karen Cushman (Clarion)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//What Jamie Saw//** by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
 * **//The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963//** by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
 * **//Yolonda's Genius//** by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
 * **//The Great Fire//** by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)


 * 1995 Medal Winner: ** **//Walk Two Moons//** by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Catherine, Called Birdy//** by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
 * **//The Ear, the Eye and the Arm//** by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)


 * 1994 Medal Winner:** **//The Giver//** by Lois Lowry (Houghton)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Crazy Lady//** by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins)
 * **//Dragon's Gate//** by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)
 * **//Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery//** by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)


 * 1993 Medal Winner:** **//Missing May//** by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//What Hearts//** by Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint)
 * **//The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural//** by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
 * **//Somewhere in the Darkness//** by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)


 * 1992 Medal Winner:** **//Shiloh//** by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel//** by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
 * **//The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane//** by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)


 * 1991 Medal Winner:** **//Maniac Magee//** by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)


 * Honor Book:**
 * **//The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle//** by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)


 * 1990 Medal Winner:** **//Number the Stars//** by Lois Lowry (Houghton)


 * Honor Books:**
 * **//Afternoon of the Elves//** by Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)
 * **//Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind//** by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)
 * **//The Winter Room//** by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)