Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney
Tightrope by Gillian Cross
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
Night Hoops by Carl Deuker
Turnabout by Margaret Haddix
Grave by James Heneghan
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Cut by Patty McCormick
Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Angus, Thongs & Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Players by Joyce Sweeney
Katie.com: My Story by Katherine Tarbox
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
Queen's Own Fool by Jane Yolen

2001-2002

Hear These Voices: Youth At the Edge of the Millennium by Anthony Allison
Speak by Laurie Anderson
Crush: Stories by Ellen Conford
Burning Up by Caroline Cooney
Talk to Me: Stories and a Novella by Carol Dines
Mind's Eye by Paul Fleischman
Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs
The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
Crooked by Laura McNeal
Mary, Bloody, Mary by Carolyn Meyer
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Jade Green: A Ghost Story by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
Close to a Killer by Marsha Qualey
Head Above Water by S. L. Rottman
Saga of Lewis & Clark: Into the Uncharted West by Thomas Schmidt
Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones
Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde

2000-2001

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic by Caroline Alexander
Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone
Heroes by Robert Cormier
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Trapped: Cages of Mind and Body by Lois Duncan
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix
The Maze by Will Hobbs
The Falcon by Jackie French Koller
The Storyteller's Beads by Jane Kurtz
No Prettty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel
Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
Cast Two Shadows by Ann Rinaldi
For Mike by Shelley Sykes
These Is My Words by Nancy Turner
Hard Ball by Will Weaver
The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
Raptor by Paul Zindel

1999-2000

Joy School by Elizabeth Berg
The Secret Family: Twenty Four Hours… by David Bodanis
Bone Dance by Martha Brooks
Bull Catcher by Alden Carter
The Facts Speak for Themselves by Brock Cole
P.S. Longer Letter Later by Paula Danziger
The Window by Micheal Dorris
Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper
Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan
Back of Beyond: Stories of the Supernatural by Sarah Ellis
Thin Ice by William Campbell Gault
Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems by Mel Glenn
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald
Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli
Shade's Children by Garth Nix
Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing by Gary Paulsen
Thin Ice by Marsha Qualey
An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi
Free Fall by Joyce Sweeney

1998-1999

Total Control by David Baldacci
The China Garden by Liz Berry
Zero at the Bone by Michael Cadnum
Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook
The Voice on the Radio by Caroline Cooney
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman
Stone Water by Barbara Snow Gilbert
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale by Mel Glenn
Mr. Was by Pete Hautman
Far North by Will Hobbs
Necessary Roughness by Marie G. Lee
After the War by Carol Matas
Terry: My Daughter's Life and Death Struggle with Alcoholism by George McGovern
Send Me Down a Miracle by Han Nolan
Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson
Gemini Game by Michael Scott
Dangerous Skies by Suzanne F. Staples
The Blooding by Patricia Windsor
Catherwood by Marly Youmans

1997-1998

Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Alden Carter
Angel's Gate by Gary Crew
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Ash by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Mary Wolf by Cynthia Grant
A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin
Do Angels Sing the Blues? by A. C. LeMieux
Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden
She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories by Robin McKinley
Past Forgiving by Gloria D. Miklowitz
Shadow of the Red Moon by Walter Dean Myers
Ice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Earthshine by Theresa Nelson
Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer
Cezanne Pinto: A Memoir by Mary Stolz
How I Changed My Life by Todd Strasser
Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde
Crying for a Vision by Walter Wangerin

1996-1997

Squashed by Joan Bauer
With Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln Collier
Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly
Driver's Ed by Caroline Cooney
In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Ironman by Chris Crutcher
Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm
Afton of Margate Castle by Angela Hunt
Escape from Egypt by Sonia Levitin
Letters from the Inside by John Marsden
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
The Beggar's Ride by Theresa Nelson
Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
Dean Duffy by Randy Powell
The Boys from St. Petri by Bjarne Reuter
Miriam's Well by Lois Ruby
The Spirit House by William Sleator
Cattail Moon by Jean Thesman
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
Loch by Paul Zindel

1995-1996

What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
I'll be Seeing You by Mary Higgins Clark
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
Pigs in Heaven: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
California Blue by David Klass
The T.V. Guidance Counselor by A. C. LeMieux
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Slow Walk in a Sad Rain by John P. McAfee
The Car by Gary Paulsen
Revolutions of the Heart by Marsha Qualey
I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant
Windleaf by Josepha Sherman
Oddballs: Stories by William Sleator
A Wizards Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic by Michael Stearns, ed.
Timothy of the Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Wings of a Falcon by Cynthia Voigt
Montana 1948: A Novel by Lawrence Watson
Crocodile Burning by Michael Williams
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

1994-1995

What You Don't Know Can Kill You by Fran Arrick
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Choi
The Forever King by Molly Cochran
Flight #116 is Down by Caroline Cooney
Strange Objects by Gary Crew
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Who Killed My Daughter by Lois Duncan
Short Circuits: Thirteen Shocking Stories by Donald Gallo, ed.
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Ghost Girl by Torey Hayden
The Harmony Arms by Ron Koertge
Out of Control by Norma Fox Mazer
Twelve Days in August by Lisa Ketchum Murrow
The Man from the Other Side by Uri Orlev
The Haymeadow by Gary Paulsen
A Break With Charity: A Story About the Salem Witch Trials by Ann Rinaldi
Who Do You Think You Are?: Stories of Friends and Enemies by Hazel Rochman
Weeping Willow by Ruth White
The Pigman and Me by Paul Zindel

1993-1994

Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen by Lloyd Alexander
Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi
Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty
When Morning Comes by Patricia Calvert
Collidescope by Grace Chetwin
Children of the River by Linda Crew
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Eva by Peter Dickinson
White Peak Farm by Bertie Doherty
Summer Endings by Sollace Hotze
Preposterous: Poems of Youth by Paul B. Janeczko ed.
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Kris's War by Carol Matas
In the Center of the Nation by Dan O'Brien
The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction by Tim O'Brien
The Monument by Gary Paulsen
My Name is Sus5an Smith, the 5 is Silent by Louise Plummer
A Woman of Her Tribe by Margaret Robinson
The New York Times Book of Sports Legends by Joseph Vecchione
The Christmas Killer by Patricia Windsor

1992-1993

Ratha and Thistle-Chaser by Clair Bell
Voices of Rape by Janet Bode
Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman
Bearstone by Will Hobbs
At Risk by Alice Hoffman
Dawn Rider by Jan Hudson
Wrestling With Honor by David Klass
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
Incident at Loring Groves by Sonia Levitin
Hugh Glass, Mountain Man by Robert McClung
West Against the Wind by Lisa Ketchum Murrow
My Brother Stealing Second by Jim Naughton
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
Canyons by Gary Paulsen
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
The Other Mother: A Woman's Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption by Carol Schafer
Sniper by Theodore Taylor
On Fortune's Wheel by Cynthia Voigt
Ryan White, My Own Story by Ryan White

1991-1992

Up Country by Alden Carter
The Goats by Brock Cole
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher
On the Devil's Court by Carl Deuker
The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle… by Micheal Dorris
Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan
The Big Bang by James D. Forman
Phoenix Rising: Or How to Survive Your Life by Cynthia Grant
Where Have All the Tigers Gone? by Lynn Hall
A Circle Unbroken by Sollace Hotze
I Feel Like the Morning Star by Gregory Maguire
Fire in the Heart by Lisa Ketchum Murrow
The Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulsen
Unlived Affections by George Shannon
Strange Attractors by William Sleator
The Accident by Todd Strasser
Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene
Life Without Friends by Ellen E. White
Here at the Scenic Vu Motel by Thelma Wyss

1990-1991

Permanent Connections by Sue Ellen Bridgers
No Kidding by Bruce Brooks
A Sudden Silence by Eve Bunting
Fade by Robert Cormier
The Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
Say Goonight Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of Miep Gies by Miep Gies
Waiting for the Rain by Sheila Gordon
“I Touch the Future…” by Robert T. Hohler
Sweetgrass by Jan Hudson
The Bone Wars by Kathryn Lasky
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
The Spirit of the Hills by Dan O'Brien
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Girl in the Box by Ouida Sebestyen
The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator
A Good Courage by Stephanie S. Tolan
Probably Still Nick Swansen by Virginia Euwer Wolff
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

1989-1990

The Beggar Queen by Lloyd Alexander
They Cage Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch
Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
False Face by Welwyn Wilton Katz
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
The Year Without Michael by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Heartstones by Ruth Rendell
The Duplicate by William Sleator
A Piece of My Heart by Keith Walker

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