Backbeard by Matthew McElligott (Illustrator)

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say (Illustrator); Eve Bunting

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz

Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome; James E. Ransome (Illustrator)

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall; Barbara Cooney (Illustrator)

Polonius the Pit Pony by Feronia Parker-Thomas (Illustrator); Richard O'Neill

Ruby in the Ruins by Shirley Hughes (Illustrator)

Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

The Gardener by Sarah Stewart; David Small (Illustrator)

A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos

A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Paperboy by Vince Vawter

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

A Year down Yonder by Richard Peck; Steve Cieslawski (Illustrator)