2012
Dan Gutman
Baseball Card Adventures series
2011
Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
2010
Kate DiCamillo
Six stories starring Mercy Watson
2009
Margie Palatini
Piggie Pie, Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes
2008
David Shannon
No, David, A Bad Case of Stripes
2007
Megan McDonald
Judy Moody, Stink
2006
Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, What Grandmas do Best
2005
Helen Lester
Tacky the Penguin
2004
Eloise Greenfield
Honey, I Love
2003
Betsy Byars
Summer of the Swans, The Pinballs
2002
Debbie Dadey
and Marcia Thornton Jones
Bailey School Kids
2001
Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House
1999/2000
Connie Porter
Addy
1998
Jerry Spinelli
Crash, Maniac Magee
1997
Betsy Duffey
Cody, My Dog, My Hero
1996
Tomie dePaola
Strega Nona, Pancakes for Breakfast
1995
R.L. Stine
Goosebumps
1994
Joanna Cole
The Magic School Bus
1993
Matt Christopher
Miracle at the Park, Stealing Home
1992
Barthe DeClements
No Place for Me, Double Trouble
1991
Marc Brown
Arthur and D.W.
1990
Louis Sachar
Wayside School, Holes
1989
John Steptoe
Stevie, Creativity
1988
Francine Pascal
Sweet Valley High
1987
Lois Lowry
Anastasia Krupnik, The Giver
1986
Barbara Park
Junie B. Jones
1985
Paula Danziger
Amber Brown, The Cat Ate my Gymsuit
1984
Peggy Parish
Amelia Bedelia, The Haunted House
1983
Judy Blume
Freckle Juice, Superfudge