| Year | Author(s) | Book Title | Publisher | 
| 1997[5] | Nancy Farmer | A Girl Named Disaster | Orchard Books | 
| Will Hobbs | Far North | HarperCollins | 
| Binjamin Wilkomirski | Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood | Schocken | 
| Philip Pullman | The Golden Compass / Northern Lights | Scholastic Point | 
| John Gilstrap | Nathan's Run | Pinnacle Books | 
| Walter Dean Myers | One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album | Harcourt Brace | 
| Rob Thomas | Rats Saw God | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 
| Joshua Blum, Bob Holman and Mark Pellington | The United States of Poetry | Harry N. Abrams | 
| Mel Glenn | Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems | Lodestar Books | 
| Rich Wallace | Wrestling Sturbridge | Random House Children's Books | 
| 1998[6] | Annette Curtis Klause | Blood and Chocolate | Random House | 
| Edward Bloor | Tangerine | Harcourt | 
| Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air | Villard Books | 
| Joyce McDonald | Swallowing Stones | Ember | 
| Karen Hesse | Out of the Dust | Scholastic Incorporated | 
| Marjorie Reynolds | Starlite Drive-In | Penguin Group | 
| Robert Cormier | Tenderness | Random House Children's Books | 
| Sara Tuvel Bernstein | Seamstress | Berkley Books | 
| Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Growing Up in Coal Country | Houghton Mifflin Company | 
| Walter Dean Myers | Harlem | Scholastic Press | 
| 1999[7] | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Among the Hidden | Simon and Schuster | 
| Penny Colman | Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts | Holt | 
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Book One)
 | Scholastic Press | 
| Louis Sachar | Holes | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | 
| Jacqueline Woodson | If You Come Softly | Putnam | 
| Jean Ferris | Love Among the Walnuts | Harcourt Brace | 
| Kimberly Willis Holt | My Louisiana Sky | Holt Publishing | 
| Anita Lobel | No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War | Greenwillow | 
| Ben Mikaelsen | Petey | Hyperion | 
| Joan Bauer | Rules of the Road | Putnam | 
| 2000[8] | Laurie Halse Anderson | Speak | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | 
| Orson Scott Card | Ender's Shadow | Tor | 
| Kimberly Willis Holt | When Zachary Beaver came to Town | Henry Holt & Co | 
| Sherryl Jordan | The Raging Quiet | Simon and Schuster | 
| Laura and Tom McNeal | Crooked | Alfred A. Knopf | 
| Carolyn Meyer | Mary, Bloody Mary | Harcourt Brace | 
| Walter Dean Myers | Monster | HarperCollins | 
| Lensey Namioka | Ties that Bind, Ties that Break | Delacorte Press | 
| Connie Porter | Imani All Mine | Houghton Mifflin | 
| Irene Gut Opdyke | In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer | Alfred A. Knopf | 
| 2001[9] | Adam Bagdasarian | Forgotten Fire | DK | 
| Joan Bauer | Hope was Here | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 
| Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a Pearl Earring | E. P. Dutton | 
| Jon Katz | Geeks: How Two Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho | Villard | 
| E. L. Konigsburg | Silent to the Bone | Jean Karl Book/Atheneum Books | 
| Gary Paulsen | The Beet Fields | Delacorte Press | 
| Pam Munoz Ryan | Esperanza Rising | Scholastic Press | 
| Jerry Spinelli | Stargirl | Alfred A. Knopf | 
| Gloria Whelan | Homeless Bird | HarperCollins | 
| Ruth White | Memories of Summer | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | 
| 2002[10] | Ann Brashares | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Delacorte | 
| Robert Cormier | The Rag and Bone Shop | Delacorte | 
| Chris Crutcher | Whale Talk | HarperCollins | 
| Alex Flinn | Breathing Underwater | HarperCollins | 
| A. M. Jenkins | Damage | HarperCollins | 
| Richard Mosher | Zazoo | Houghton Mifflin | 
| Garth Nix | Lirael | HarperCollins | 
| Mildred D. Taylor | The Land | Penguin Putnam | 
| Rita Williams-Garcia | Every Time a Rainbow Dies | William Morrow | 
| Virginia Euwer Wolff | True Believer | Atheneum | 
| 2003[11] | Iain Lawrence | The Lightkeeper's Daughter | Random House/Delacorte Press | 
| E. R. Frank | America | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/A Richard Jackson Book | 
| Laurie Halse Anderson | Catalyst | Penguin Putnam/Viking Press | 
| Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/A Richard Jackson Book | 
| Naomi Shihab Nye | 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East | HarperCollins/Greenwillow | 
| Elizabeth Partridge | This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie | Penguin Putnam/Viking | 
| Gordon Korman | Son of the Mob | Hyperion Books for Children | 
| Peter Nelson | Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis | Random House/Delacorte Press | 
| M. T. Anderson | Feed | Candlewick Press | 
| Christopher Moore | Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff,  Christ's Childhood Pal | HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co. | 
| 2004[12] | Martha Brooks | True Confessions of a Heartless Girl | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books | 
| Jennifer Donnelly | A Northern Light | Harcourt | 
| Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel | Random House/Doubleday | 
| Angela Johnson | The First Part Last | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 
| David Levithan | Boy Meets Boy | Random House/Alfred A. Knopf | 
| Joyce Maynard | The Usual Rules | St. Martin's Press | 
| Edith Pattou | East | Harcourt Children's Books | 
| Adam Rapp | 33 Snowfish | Candlewick Press | 
| Jonathan Stroud | The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One)
 | Hyperion Books for Children/Miramax | 
| Craig Thompson | Blankets: An Illustrated Novel | Top Shelf Productions | 
| 2005[13] | Joshua Braff | The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green | Workman Publishing Co. / Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | 
| Christopher Paul Curtis | Bucking the Sarge | Random House/Wendy Lamb | 
| Phillip Hoose | The Race to Save the Lord God Bird | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books | 
| David Levithan | The Realm of Possibility | Random House Children's Books/Alfred A. Knopf | 
| Melina Marchetta | Saving Francesca | Random House Children's Books/Alfred A. Knopf | 
| Michael Morpurgo | Private Peaceful | Scholastic | 
| Kenneth Oppel | Airborn | HarperCollins Children's Book Group/Eos Press | 
| Adam Rapp | Under the Wolf, Under the Dog | Candlewick Press | 
| Benjamin Alire Saenz | Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood | Cinco Puntos Press | 
| Sarah Weeks | So B. It: a novel | HarperCollins Children's Books/ Laura Geringer Books | 
| 2006[14] | Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton | Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story | Bloomsbury Publishing | 
| Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Scholastic | 
| Kalisha Buckhanon | Upstate | St. Martin's Press | 
| John Green | Looking for Alaska | E. P. Dutton | 
| Chris Lynch | Inexcusable | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books | 
| Stephenie Meyer | Twilight: A Novel (Twilight, Book One)
 | Little, Brown & Co./Megan Tingley | 
| Brian K. Vaughan with Adrian Alphona (Illus.) | Runaways: Volume 1 HC | Marvel Press | 
| Scott Westerfeld | Peeps | Penguin Books/Razorbill | 
| Chris Wooding | Poison | Scholastic/Orchard | 
| Markus Zusak | I am the Messenger | Alfred A. Knopf | 
| 2007[15] | M. T. Anderson | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party | Candlewick Press | 
| Alan Gratz | Samurai Shortstop | Penguin Group/Dial Press | 
| Sonya Hartnett | Surrender | Candlewick Press | 
| Patricia McCormick | Sold | Hyperion | 
| Meghan Nuttall Sayres | Anahita's Woven Riddle | Abrams Books/Amulet Books | 
| John Smelcer | The Trap | Henry Holt & Co | 
| Megan Whalen Turner | The King of Attolia | HarperCollins/Greenwillow | 
| Nancy Werlin | The Rules of Survival | Penguin Group/Dial Press | 
| Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien | American Born Chinese | Roaring Brook Press/First Second Books | 
| Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | Random House/Alfred A. Knopf | 
| 2008[16] | Sherman Alexie with Ellen Forney (Illus.) | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian | Little, Brown & Co. | 
| Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Farrar,  Straus and Giroux/Sarah Crichton | 
| Jenny Downham | Before I Die | Random House/David Fickling | 
| Stephanie Hemphill | Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath | Random House/Alfred A. Knopf | 
| Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip | Dell Publishing/Dial Press | 
| Derek Landy | Skulduggery Pleasant: The Sceptor of the Ancients (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book One)
 | HarperCollins | 
| Mal Peet | Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal | Candlewick Press | 
| Matthew Polly | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China | Penguin Group USA/Gotham Books | 
| Brian Selznick | The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel | Scholastic | 
| Shaun Tan | The Arrival | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine | 
| 2009[17] | Robin Bowman | It's Complicated:  The American Teenager | Umbrage Editions | 
| Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games | Scholastic | 
| Leslie Conner | Waiting for Normal | HarperCollins/HarperTeen | 
| Matt de la Pena | Mexican WhiteBoy | Delacorte Press | 
| Siobhan Dowd | Bog Child | Random House/David Fickling Books | 
| Christine Fletcher | Ten Cents a Dance | Bloomsbury | 
| Joseph Monninger | Baby | Boyd Mills Press/Front Street | 
| Terry Pratchett | Nation | HarperCollins | 
| Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki | Skim | House of Anansi Press / Groundwood Books | 
| Coert Voorhees | The Brothers Torres | Disney/Hyperion | 
| 2010[18] | Sarah Rees Brennan | Demon's Lexicon (The Demon's Lexicon, Book One)
 | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry | 
| Paul Griffin | The Orange Houses | Penguin/Dial Books | 
| M. H. Herlong | The Great Wide Sea | Penguin/Viking | 
| Catherine Jinks | The Reformed Vampire Support Group | Harcourt/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 
| Donna Jo Napoli | Alligator Bayou | Random House / Alfred A. Knopf | 
| David Small | Stitches: A Memoir | W. W. Norton & Co | 
| Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me | Random House/Wendy Lamb | 
| Francisco X. Stork | Marcelo in the Real World | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books | 
| Laini Taylor | Lips Touch: Three Times | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books | 
| Sally M. Walker | Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland | Lerner/Carolrhoda Books | 
| 2011[19] | Paolo Bacigalupi | Ship Breaker | Little, Brown & Co | 
| Jennifer Donnelly | Revolution | Random House/Delacorte Press | 
| Melina Marchetta | Finnikin of the Rock | Candlewick Press | 
| Morgan Matson | Amy  & Roger's Epic Detour | Simon & Schuster | 
| Lish McBride | Hold Me Closer, Necromancer | Macmillan Children's Book Group/Henry Holt & Co. | 
| Andy Mulligan | Trash | Random House/David Fickling Books | 
| Mitali Perkins | Bamboo People | Charlesbridge | 
| Dana Reinhardt | The Things a Brother Knows | Random House/Wendy Lamb | 
| Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Last Night I Sang to the Monster | Cinco Puntos Press | 
| Marcus Sedgwick | Revolver | MacMillian Publishers/Roaring Brook Press | 
| 2012[20] | Rae Carson | The Girl of Fire and Thorns | HarperTeen | 
| Joshua C. Cohen | Leverage | Penguin Group/E. P. Dutton | 
| A. S. King | Everybody Sees the Ants | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 
| Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Under the Mesquite | Lee & Low Books | 
| Lauren Myracle | Shine | Abrams Books/Amulet Books | 
| Patrick Ness with Jim Kay (Illus) | A Monster Calls | Candlewick Press | 
| Ruta Sepetys | Between Shades of Gray | Penguin Group/Philomel Books | 
| Maggie Stiefvater | The Scorpio Races | Scholastic | 
| Laini Taylor | Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Book One)
 | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 
| Sara Zarr | How to Save a Life | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 
| 2013[21] | Jesse Andrews | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Abrams Books/Amulet Books | 
| Libba Bray | The Diviners | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 
| Rachel Hartman | Seraphina | Random House Books for Young Readers | 
| Alethea Kontis | Enchanted | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Harcourt Children's Books | 
| David Levithan | Every Day | Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers | 
| Patricia McCormick | Never Fall Down | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | 
| Matthew Quick | Boy 21 | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 
| Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 
| Maggie Stiefvater | The Raven Boys | Scholastic | 
| Elizabeth Wein | Code Name Verity | Disney/Hyperion | 
| 2014[22] | Julie Berry | All the Truth That's in Me | Penguin Putnam/Viking | 
| Kristin Elizabeth Clark | Freakboy | Macmillan Publishers/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | 
| Tim Federle | Better Nate Than Ever | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 
| Tom McNeal | Far Far Away | Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers | 
| Rainbow Rowell | Eleanor & Park | Macmillan Publishers/St. Martin's Press | 
| Marcus Sedgwick | Midwinterblood | Macmillan Publishers/Roaring Brook Press | 
| Ruta Sepetys | Out of the Easy | Penguin Books/Philomel Books | 
| Andrew A. Smith with Sam Bosma (Illus.) | Winger | Simon & Schuster | 
| Tara Sullivan | Golden Boy | Penguin Books/ G. P. Putnam's sons  Juvenile | 
| Elizabeth Wein | Rose Under Fire | Disney/Hyperion | 
| 2015[23] | Jandy Nelson | I'll Give You the Sun | Dial Press | 
| William Ritter | Jackaby | Algonquin | 
| John Corey Whaley | Noggin | Atheneum Books | 
| Jessie Ann Foley | The Carnival at Bray | Elephant Rock Books | 
| Kwame Alexander | The Crossover | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 
| Brendan Kiely | The Gospel of Winter | Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry | 
| E. K. Johnston | The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim | Carolrhoda/Lab | 
| Marie Lu | The Young Elites | G. P. Putnam's sons | 
| Timothee de Fombelle | Vango | Candlewick Press | 
| E. Lockhart | We Were Liars | Delacorte Publishing | 
| 2016[24] | Becky Albertalli | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | 
| Leigh Bardugo | Six of Crows | Holt | 
| Kevin Brooks | The Bunker Diary | Lerner Publishing Group/Carolrhoda Lab | 
| Melanie Crowder | Audacity | Philomel Books | 
| Daniel José Older | Shadowshaper | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books | 
| Jason Reynolds | The Boy in the Black Suit | Atheneum Books | 
| Laura Ruby | Bone Gap | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | 
| Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon | X: A Novel | Candlewick Press | 
| Neal Shusterman | Challenger Deep | HarperTeen | 
| Adam Silvera | More Happy than Not | Soho Teen | 
| 2017[25] | Julie Berry | The Passion of Dolssa | Viking Books for Young Readers | 
| Traci Chee | The Reader | G. P. Putnam's Sons / Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers | 
| Frances Hardinge | The Lie Tree | Abrams Books | 
| Mindy McGinnis | The Female of the Species | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books | 
| Meg Medina | Burn Baby Burn | Candlewick Press | 
| Jason Reynolds | Ghost | Atheneum Books/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books | 
| Ruta Sepetys | Salt to the Sea | Philomel Books | 
| Neal Shusterman | Scythe | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 
| Nicola Yoon | The Sun is Also a Star | Delacorte Press | 
| Jeff Zentner | The Serpent King | Crown Books for Young Readers | 
| 2018[26] | Elana Arnold | What Girls Are Made Of | Lerner Publishing Group/Carolrhoda Lab | 
| Leigh Bardugo with Sara Kipin (Illus.) | The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic | Macmillan Publishers | 
| Mackenzi Lee | The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen | 
| Sarah Moon | Sparrow | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine | 
| Jason Reynolds | Long Way Down | Simon &  Schuster/Atheneum Books | 
| Laini Taylor | Strange the Dreamer | Little, Brown & Co | 
| Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | 
| Renee Watson | Piecing Me Together | Bloomsbury USA | 
| Francesca Zappia | Eliza and Her Monsters | HarperCollins/Greenwillow | 
| Jeff Zentner | Goodbye Days | Crown Books for Young Readers | 
| 2019[27] | Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X | HarperTeen | 
| Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera | What if It's Us | HarperTeen | 
| Holly Black | The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, Book One)
 | Little, Brown & Co. | 
| Deb Caletti | A Heart in a Body in the World | Simon Pulse | 
| Justina Ireland | Dread Nation | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | 
| Tiffany D. Jackson | Monday's Not Coming | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books | 
| Adib Khorram | Darius the Great is Not Okay | Dial Press | 
| Emma Mills | Foolish Hearts | Henry Holt & Co | 
| Preston Norton | Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe | Disney Hyperion | 
| Shivaun Plozza | Frankie | Flatiron Books | 
| 2020[28] | Ben Philippe | The Field Guide to the North American Teenager | HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray | 
| Sharon Biggs Waller | Girls on the Verge | Holt | 
| Mindy McGinnis | Heroine | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books | 
| Abdi Nazemian | Like a Love Story | HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray | 
| Julie Berry | Lovely War | Viking Press | 
| Angie Thomas | On the Come Up | HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray | 
| Randy Ribay | Patron Saints of Nothing | Penguin/Kokila | 
| Akwaeke Emezi | Pet | Random House/Make Me a World | 
| Junauda Petrus | The Stars and the Blackness between Them | E. P. Dutton | 
| Elizabeth Acevedo | With the Fire on High | HarperTeen | 
| 2021[29] | Mindy McGinnis | Be Not Far from Me | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books | 
| Aiden Thomas | Cemetery Boys | Macmillan/Swoon Reads | 
| Elizabeth Acevedo | Clap When You Land | HarperCollins/HarperTeen | 
| Frances Hardinge | Deeplight | Abrams Books/Amulet Books | 
| Tiffany D. Jackson | Grown | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books | 
| Syed M. Masood | More Than Just a Pretty Face | Hachette/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 
| Jordan Ifueko | Raybearer | Abrams Books/Amulet Books | 
| Kim Johnson | This Is My America | Random House Books for Young Readers | 
| Jenny Torres Sanchez | We Are Not from Here | Penguin Random House/Philomel Books | 
| Jennifer Longo | What I Carry | Random House Books for Young Readers | 
| 2022[30] | Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D.  Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Blackout | HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books | 
| Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | Harlequin/Inkyard Press | 
| Angie Thomas | Concrete Rose | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | 
| David Arnold | The Electric Kingdom | Penguin Random House/Viking Books for Young Readers | 
| Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper's Daughter | Macmillan/Henry Holt & Co. Books for Young Readers | 
| Raquel Vasquez Gilliland | How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 
| Jeff Zentner | In the Wild Light | Penguin Random House/Crown Books for Young Readers | 
| Malinda Lo | Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Penguin Random House/Dutton Books | 
| Margaret Owen | Little Thieves | Macmillan/Henry Holt & Co. Books for Young Readers | 
| Amber McBride | Me (Moth) | Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends | 
| Joan He | The Ones We're Meant to Find | Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press |