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| School Year | Primary | Elementary | Middle | High |
| 2010-2011 | Chester-Melanie Watt | Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things-Lenore Look | Breathe: A Ghost Story-Cliff McNish | The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins |
| 2009-2010 | Library Mouse - Daniel Kirk |
Lemonade War - Jacqueline Davies |
Savvy - Ingrid Law |
Unwind - Neal Shusterman |
| 2008-2009 | Once I Ate a Pie - Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest |
The Ghost’s Grave - Peg Kehret |
Airbornby Kenneth Oppel | The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls |
| 2007-2008 | He Came With the Couch - David Slonim |
John, Paul, George and Ben - Lane Smith |
The Lightning Thiefby Rick Riordan | Uglies - Scott Westerfield |
| 2006-2007 | Guji Gujiby Chih - Yuan Chen |
Last Holiday Concert - Andrew Clements |
The Sea of Trollsby Nancy Farmer | My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult |
| 2005-2006 | The Monster Who Ate My Peas - Danny Schnitzlein |
Say What? - Margaret Peterson Haddix |
Eragonby Christopher Paolini | The Year of Secret Assignments – Jaclyn Moriarty |
| 2004-2005 | Eppossumondas – Colleen Salley |
7 X 9 = Trouble - Claudia Mills |
Loserby Jerry Spinelli | The House Next Door -R.K. Cusick |
| 2003-2004 | The Recess Queen - Alexis O’Neill, Illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith (Scholastic) |
Summer of Riley - Eve Bunting (HarperCollins) |
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House) | The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream - Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, George Jenkins (Riverhead) |
| 2002-2003 | The Soccer Mom From Outer Space - Saltzberg |
Because of Winn-Dixie - DiCamillo |
No More Dead Dogs-Korman | Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging - Rennison |
| 2001-2002 | Hooway for Wodney Wat - Lester |
The Secret of Platform 13 - Ibbotson |
Blackwater-Bunting | A Door Near Here - Quarles |
| 2000-2001 | Akiak, A Tale from the Iditarod - Blake |
The Ghost of Fossil Glen - DeFelice |
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key-Gantos | If You Come Softly -Woodson |
| 1999-2000 | Red Racer - Wood |
The Junkyard Dog - Tamar |
Spirit Seeker-Nixon | Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul - Canfield |
| 1998-1999 | My Little Sister Ate One Hare - Grossman |
Earthquake Terror - Kehret |
Crash-Spinelli | The China Garden - Berry |
| 1997-1998 | Suddenly! - McNaughton |
Fig Pudding - Fletcher |
The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm-Farmer | Daughter of the Stars - Whitney |
| 1996-1997 | Copycat - Brown |
Time for Andrew - Hahn |
Walk Two Moons-Creech | Tears of A Tiger - Draper |
| 1995-1996 | Dogzilla - Pilkey |
A Haunting in Williamsburg - Lou Kassem |
The Giver-Lowry | Just Like Martin - Davis |
| 1994-1995 | Rough-Faced Girl - Martin |
Ghost Cadet - Alphin |
Flight #116 Is Down-Cooney | Jumping the Nail - Bunting |
| 1993-1994 | Beware of Boys - Blundell |
Ten Kids, No Pets - Martin |
Dead Man in Indian Creek-Hahn | How Could You Do It, Diane? - Pevsner |
| 1992-1993 | Talking Eggs - San Souci |
Exploring the Titanic - Ballard |
Maniac Magee-Spinelli | Plague Year - Tolan |
| 1991-1992 | The Great White Man - Eating Shark-Mahy |
Doll in the Garden - Hahn |
A Family Apart-Nixon | Don’t Look Behind You - Duncan |
| 1990-1991 | Two bad Ants - Van Allsburg |
Matilda - Dahl |
Good Night, Mr. Tom-Magorian | Say Goodnight, Gracie - Deaver |
| 1989-1990 | The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth - Cole |
Christina’s Ghost - Wright |
Hatchet-Paulsen | Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror - Avi |
| 1988-1989 | Heckedy Peg - Wood |
Wait Till Helen Comes - Hahn |
The Other Side of Dark-Nixon | The Face at the Edge of the World - Bunting |
| 1987-1988 | In a Dark, Dark Room - Schwartz |
Indian in the Cupboard - Banks |
Ghost in My Soup-Miller | Izzy, Willy -Nilly-Voigt |
| 1986-1987 | My Friend the Vampire - Sommer-Bodenburg |
The Curse of the Blue Figurine-Bellairs | The Man in the Woods - Wells |
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| 1985-1986 | Superfudge - Blume |
The Cat Ate My Gym Suit - Danziger |
The Third Eye - Hunter |
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| 1984-1985 | The Outsiders - Hinton |
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| 1983-1984 | The Westing Game - Raskin |
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| 1982-1983 | Bridge to Terabithia - Paterson |
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| 1981-1982 | Island of the Blue Dolphins - O’Dell |
