*Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (Delacorte Press)
*Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)
* 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)
* 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)
* An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)
* 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)
* Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
* 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)
* Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
* 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (Putnam)
* Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
* Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)
* 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)
* 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)
* The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)
* Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)
* Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)
* The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
* Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)
* The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
* Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)
* The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)
* Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers (Harper)
* Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)
* On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion)
* Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber (Bradbury)
* Dogsong by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)
* The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (Harper)
* One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
* A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
* Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)
* The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain (Harper)
* Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (Farrar)
* Graven Images by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
* Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
* Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
* Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)
* A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
* Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (Lippincott)
* A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Atheneum)
* Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (Harper)
* My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Four Winds)
* The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)
* Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene (Dial)
* The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (Crowell)
* The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
* The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
* The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)
* Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles (Little, Brown)
* The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
* Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)
* Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
* The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore (World)
* Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele (Viking)
* When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar)
* The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
* The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Scribner)
* The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
* Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Harper)
* The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum)
* The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell (Pantheon)
* The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz (Harper)
* The Loner by Ester Wier (McKay)
* Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge (Houghton)
* The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
* Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz (Harper)
* Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (Houghton)
* The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson) (Farrar)
* America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
* The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (Harcourt)
* Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
* Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay (Harcourt)
* The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (Harcourt)
* Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt)
* The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (Viking)
* Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko (Crowell)
* The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
* Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
* The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads (Viking)
* Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
* The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist (Harper)
* Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen (Viking)
* Banner In The Sky by James Ullman (Lippincott)
* Shadrach by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
* Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
* Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
* Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)
* Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
* Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil (Viking)
* The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
* Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
* Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
* The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Scribner)
* The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer (Viking)
* The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)
* Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)
* Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
* The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish (Harper)
* The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz (Longmans)
* Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday)
* George Washington by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
* Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst (Winston)
* Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin (Viking)
* My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett (Random House)
* Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Knopf)
* Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)
* The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)
* The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander (Holt)
* Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
* Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
* The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Harper)
* The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) (Appleton)
* The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett (Viking)
* The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)
* Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston (Scribner)
* New Found World by Katherine Shippen (Viking)
* The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
* Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
* Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton (Harcourt)
* Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (Viking)
* Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
* Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (Coward)
* Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
* George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
* Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
* Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)
* Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)
* The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
* Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)
* Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
* By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
* Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)
* Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater (Little, Brown)
* Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford (Holt)
* Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt)
* Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
* Bright Island by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
* On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
* Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones (Viking)
* The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
* Winterbound by Margery Bianco (Viking)
* The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes (Doubleday)
* Audubon by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
* The Good Master by Kate Seredy (Viking)
* Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
* All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry (Winston)
* Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
* Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum (Harper)
* Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster (Houghton)
* ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág (Coward)
* Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) (Appleton)
* New Land by Sarah Schmidt (McBride)
* Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
* Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
* Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle (Houghton)
* The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
* Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon (Doubleday)
* Calico Bush by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
* Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann)
* Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery (Longmans)
* Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee (Houghton)
* Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis (Harcourt)
* The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus (Harcourt)
* Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard (Doubleday)
* Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams (Dutton)
* Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
* Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Doubleday)
* Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best (Doubleday)
* Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen (Little, Brown)
* Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller (Doubleday)
* Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely (Longmans)
* The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young (Longmans)
* Vaino by Julia Davis Adams (Dutton)
* Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
* Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (Coward)
* The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock (Dutton)
* Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
* Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon (Doubleday)
* Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney (Macmillan)
* Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
* The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish (Macmillan)
* Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall (Appleton)
* The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen (Macmillan)
* The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
* The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (Macmillan)