Past Winners
Past Awards
| Year | Winner | List | Activity Packet |
| 2023 | When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed | 2023 List | 2023 Activity Packet |
| 2022 | The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinahrt | 2022 List | 2022 Activity Packet |
| 2021 | Front Desk by Kelly Yang | 2021 List | 2021 Activity Packet |
| 2020 | Refugee by Alan Gratz | 2020 List | 2020 Activity Packet |
| 2019 | Ghost by Jason Reynolds | 2019 List | 2019 Activity Packet |
| 2018 | A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nelsen | 2018 List | 2018 Activity Packet |
| 2017 | The Crossover by Kwame Alexander | 2017 List | 2017 Acitivity Packet |
| 2016 | Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans | 2016 List | 2016 Activity Packet |
| 2015 | Legend by Marie Lu | 2015 List | 2015 Activity Packet |
| 2014 | Wonder by R.J. Palacio | 2014 List | 2014 Actiivty Packet |
| 2013 | Smile by Raina Telgemeier | 2013 List | 2013 Activity Packet |
| 2012 | Powerless by Matthew Cody | 2012 List | 2012 Activity Packet |
| 2011 | The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | 2011 List | 2011 Activity Packet |
| 2010 | All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn | 2010 List | 2010 Activity Packet |
| 2009 | The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan | 2009 List | 2009 Winner Packet |
| 2008 | Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick | 2008 List | 2008 Winner Packet |
| 2007 | So B. It by Sarah Weeks | 2007 List | 2007 Winner Packet |
| 2006 | Eragon by Christopher Paolini | 2006 List | 2006 Winner Packet |
| 2004 | Hoot by Carl Hiaasen | 2005 List | 2005 Winner Packet |
| 2003 | Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson | 2004 List | 2004 Winner Packet |
| 2002 | Holes by Louis Sachar | 2003 List | 2003 Winner Packet |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling | 2002 List | 2002 Winner Packet |
| 2000 | Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine | 2001 List | 2001 Winner Packet |
| 1999 | Frindle by Andrew Clements | 1999 List | 1999 Winner Packet |
| 1998 | Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park | 1998 List | 1998 Winner Packet |
| 1997 | The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson | 1997 List | 1997 Winner Packet |