# Cybils Award

The Cybils Awards, or Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards, are a set of annual book awards given by people who blog about children's and young adult books. Co-founded by Kelly Herold and Anne Boles Levy in 2006, the awards were created to address an apparent gap between children's book awards perceived as too elitist and other awards that did not seem selective enough.
Books are nominated by the public in ten genres of children's and young adult literature: Book Apps, Easy Readers & Short Chapter Books, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade Novels, Non-Fiction Middle Grade/Young Adult Books, Non-Fiction Picture Books, Poetry, and Young Adult Novels. Nominees go through two rounds of panel-based judging before a winner is announced in each category. Finalists and winners are selected on the basis of literary merit and kid appeal.
Panelists are volunteers and must be active bloggers with extensive experience in children's or young adult literature, either as readers and enthusiasts or as authors, librarians, booksellers, teachers, or others with verifiable investment in the world of children's literature.

## Criteria

* Anybody may nominate a children's or young adult book published October 16 of the preceding year – October 15 of the contest year.
* Books must be written in English or they may be bilingual.
* Only one book may be nominated per person, per category.
* Nominations open October 1 and close October 15 of the contest year.
* Books should exemplify award criteria of literary merit and "kid appeal".

## Recipients
### Audiobooks (2016)

| Year | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Title | Result |
| 2016 | Adam Gidwitz | Vikas Adam, Mark Bramhall, Jonathan Cowley, Kimberly Farr, Adam Gidwitz, Ann Marie Lee, Bruce Mann, John H. Mayer, and Arthur Morey | The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Winner |
| 2016 | John Claude Bemis | Ralph Lister | The Wooden Prince | Finalist |
| 2016 | Kate DiCamillo | Jenna Lamia | Raymie Nightingale | Finalist |
| 2016 | Grace Lin | Kim Mai Guest | When the Sea Turned to Silver | Finalist |
| 2016 | Richard Peck | Michael Crouch | The Best Man | Finalist |

### Board books (2016–)

| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result |
| 2016 | Christopher Franceschelli, illus. by Peskimo | Cityblock | Winner |
| 2016 | Patty Rodriguez and Ariana Stein, illus. by Citlali Reyes | Cuauhtemoc: Shapes/Formas | Finalist |
| 2016 | Sandra Boynton | Dinosaur Dance! | Finalist |
| 2016 | Emily Sper | Follow the Yarn: A Book of Colors | Finalist |
| 2016 | Agnese Baruzzi | Look, Look Again | Finalist |
| 2017 | Nathan Thoms, illus. by Carles Ballesteros | Changing Faces: Meet Happy Bear | Winner |
| 2017 | Douglas Florian, illus. by Barbara Bakos | Bears Are Big | Finalist |
| 2017 | Kenji Oikawa and Mayuko Takeuc | Circle, Triangle, Elephant: A Book of Shapes and Surprises | Finalist |
| 2017 | Leslie Patricelli | Hair | Finalist |
| 2017 | Catherine Rayner | One Happy Tiger | Finalist |
| 2017 | Nina Laden | Peek-a-Moo! | Finalist |
| 2017 | Susanna Leonard Hill, illus. by Daniel Wiseman | When Your Lion Needs a Bath | Finalist |
| 2018 | Janik Coat | Llamaphones | Winner |
| 2018 | Steve Light | Black Bird Yellow Sun | Finalist |
| 2018 | David W. Miles | But First, We Nap: A Little Book About Nap Time | Finalist |
| 2018 | Elsa Mroziewicz | Peek-a-Who | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin | These Colors Are Bananas | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jean Jullien | Why the Face? | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jacques Duquennoy | Zoe and Zack: Shapes | Finalist |
| 2019 | Tatsuhide Matsuoka, trans. by Cathy Hirano | Jump! | Winner |
| 2019 | Joyce Wan | Dream Big | Finalist |
| 2019 | Aleksandra Szmidt | Good Night, World | Finalist |
| 2019 | Della Ross Ferreri, illus. by Mette Engel | Huggle Wuggle, Bedtime Snuggle | Finalist |
| 2019 | Ryan T. Higgins | Peek-a-Bruce | Finalist |
| 2019 | Elsa Mroziewicz | Peek-a-Who Too? | Finalist |
| 2019 | Aaron Becker | You Are Light | Finalist |
| 2020 | No award was presented in 2020 | No award was presented in 2020 | No award was presented in 2020 |
| 2021 | Marine Schneider | Big Bear, Little Bear | Winner |
| 2021 | Cushman Abi | Animals Go Vroom! | Finalist |
| 2021 | Toni Buzzeo, illus. by Chi Birmingham | Caution! Road Signs Ahead | Finalist |
| 2021 | Carter Higgins | Circle Under Berry | Finalist |
| 2021 | Janik Coat | Comparrotives | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jean Jullien | This Is Still Not a Book | Finalist |
| 2021 | Ben Newman | Turn Seek Find: Habitats | Finalist |
| 2022 | Giuliano Ferri | Look Twice | Winner |
| 2022 | Annie Bailey | 10 Little Tractors (10 Little Vehicles) | Finalist |
| 2022 | Jane Whittingham | Animals Move (Big, Little Concepts, 3) | Finalist |
| 2022 | Suzy Ultman | Be My Neighbor? | Finalist |
| 2022 | LaTonya Yvette | The Hair Book | Finalist |
| 2022 | Jill McDonald | Hello, World! Garden Time | Finalist |
| 2022 | Laura Gehl | Odd Birds: Meet Nature's Weirdest Flock | Finalist |

### Book apps (2011–2015)

| Year | App | Developer | Result |
| 2011 | The Monster at the End of This Book | Callaway Digital Arts, Inc | Winner |
| 2011 | Be Confident in Who You Are: A Middle School Confidential Graphic Novel by Annie Fox | Electric Eggplant | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bobo Explores Light | GameCollage | Finalist |
| 2011 | Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson | Trilogy Studios | Finalist |
| 2011 | Hildegard Sings by Thomas Wharton | | Finalist |
| 2011 | Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt | | Finalist |
| 2011 | The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore | Moonbot Studios | Finalist |
| 2012 | Dragon Brush | Small Planet Digital | Winner |
| 2012 | Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night | Bookerella | Finalist |
| 2012 | Rounds: Franklin Frog | Nosy Crow | Finalist |
| 2012 | The Voyage of Ulysses | | Finalist |
| 2012 | Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell | | Finalist |
| 2013 | Disney Animated | Disney | Winner |
| 2013 | Endless Alphabet | Originator Inc. | Finalist |
| 2013 | MirrorWorld by Cornelia Funke | Mirada | Finalist |
| 2013 | To This Day by Shane Koyczan | | Finalist |
| 2013 | Wee You-Things | Wee Society LLC | Finalist |
| 2014 | Kalley's Machine Plus Cats | RocketWagon | Winner |
| 2014 | Angus the Irritable Bull | Watermark Ltd | Finalist |
| 2014 | Fiona & the Fog | William Poor | Finalist |
| 2014 | Hat Monkey | Fox and Sheep GmbH | Finalist |
| 2014 | How I Became a Pirate | Melinda Long | Finalist |
| 2014 | Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart | Touchpress | Finalist |
| 2014 | Rules of Summer | Shaun Tan | Finalist |
| 2015 | Professor Astro Cat's Solar System | Minilab Ltd | Winner |
| 2015 | David Wiesner's Spot | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Finalist |
| 2015 | Earth Primer | Chaim Gingold | Finalist |
| 2015 | Hilda Bewildered | Slap Happy Larry | Finalist |
| 2015 | Metamorphabet | Vectorpark.com | Finalist |
| 2015 | Wuwu & Co. | Step In Books | Finalist |

### Early chapter books (2009–)

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Title | Result |
| 2009 | Lucy Nolan | Mike Reed | Winnener | |
| 2009 | Tim Kennemore | Mike Spoor | Alice's Shooting Star | Finalist |
| 2009 | Claudia Mills | Heather Maione | How Oliver Olson Changed the World | Finalist |
| 2009 | Kate DiCamillo | Chris Van Dusen | Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes | Finalist |
| 2009 | Katherine Applegate | Brian Biggs | Roscoe Riley Rules #7: Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jacqueline Jules | Miguel Benitez | Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off | Winner |
| 2010 | Atinuke | | Anna Hibiscus | Finalist |
| 2010 | Eric Wight | | Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lucy Nolan | Mike Ree | Home on the Range | Finalist |
| 2010 | Stephanie Greene | Stephanie Sisson | Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade | Finalist |
| 2011 | Atinuke | | Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus! | Winner |
| 2011 | Sara Pennypacker | Marla Frazee | Clementine and the Family Meeting | Finalist |
| 2011 | Charise Mericle Harper | | Just Grace and the Double Surprise | Finalist |
| 2011 | Julie Sternberg | Matthew Cordell | Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie | Finalist |
| 2011 | Doreen Cronin | Kevin Cornell | The Trouble with Chickens | Finalist |
| 2012 | Sonya Hartnett | Ann James | Sadie and Ratz | Winner |
| 2012 | Annie Barrows | Sophie Blackall | Ivy and Bean Make the Rules | Finalist |
| 2012 | Kate Messner | Brian Floca | Marty McGuire Digs Worms! | Finalist |
| 2012 | Cece Bell | | Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover | Finalist |
| 2012 | Anna Branford, illus. by | Elanna Allen | Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot | Finalist |
| 2013 | James Preller, illus. by | Iacopo Bruno | Home Sweet Horror | Winner |
| 2013 | Ursula Vernon | | The Case of the Toxic Mutants | Finalist |
| 2013 | Claudia Mills | Rob Shepperson | Kelsey Green, Reading Queen | Finalist |
| 2013 | Lauren Myracle | Jed Henry | The Life of Ty: Penguin Problems | Finalist |
| 2013 | Hilary McKay | | Lulu and the Dog from the Sea | Finalist |
| 2013 | Anna Branford | Elanna Allen | Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat | Finalist |
| 2014 | Judith Viorst | Kevin Cornell | Lulu's Mysterious Mission | Winner |
| 2014 | Doreen Cronin | Kevin Cornell | The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure | Finalist |
| 2014 | Abby Hanlon | | Dory Fantasmagory | Finalist |
| 2014 | Julie Sternberg | Matthew Cordell | Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake | Finalist |
| 2014 | Nicola Davies | Annabel Wright | The Lion Who Stole My Arm | Finalist |
| 2014 | Hilary McKay | | Lulu and the Rabbit Next Door | Finalist |
| 2014 | Anna Branford | Elanna Allen | Violet Mackerel's Possible Friend | Finalist |
| 2015 | Abby Hanlon | | Dory and the Real True Friend | Winner |
| 2015 | Bruce Hale | | Big Bad Detective Agency | Finalist |
| 2015 | Kate Messner | Kelley McMorris | Rescue on the Oregon Trail | Finalist |
| 2015 | Hilary McKay | | Lulu and the Hamster in the Night | Finalist |
| 2015 | Yasmine Surovec | | My Pet Human | Finalist |
| 2015 | Kallie George | Alexandra Boiger | Clover's Luck | Finalist |
| 2015 | Liam O'Donnell | Aurélie Grand | West Meadows Detectives: The Case of the Snack Snatcher | Finalist |
| 2016 | Polly Faber | Clara Vulliamy | Mango & Bambang: The Not-a-Pig | Winner |
| 2016 | Abby Hanlon | | Dory Dory Black Sheep | Finalist |
| 2016 | Juana Medina | | Juana and Lucas | Finalist |
| 2016 | Shannon Hale and Dean Hale | LeUyen Pham | The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde | Finalist |
| 2016 | Linda Urban | Katie Kath | Weekends with Max and His Dad | Finalist |
| 2016 | Kate DiCamillo | Chris Van Dusen | Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln? | Finalist |
| 2017 | Suzanne Selfors | Barbara Fisinger | Wedgie & Gizmo | Winner |
| 2017 | Patricia MacLachlan | Marc Boutavant | Barkus | Finalist |
| 2017 | Asia Citro | Marion Lindsay | Dragons and Marshmallows | Finalist |
| 2017 | Kallie George | Stephanie Graegin | The Greatest Gift | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jacqueline Jules | Kim Smith | My Fantástica Family | Finalist |
| 2017 | Terry Lynn Johnson | Jani Orban | Overboard! | Finalist |
| 2017 | Laura Amy Schlitz | Brian Floca | Princess Cora and the Crocodile | Finalist |
| 2017 | Shannon Hale and Dean Hale | LeUyen Pham | The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation | Finalist |
| 2018 | Debbi Michiko Florence | Elizabet Vukovic | Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl | Winner |
| 2018 | Ellen Potter | Felicita Sala | Big Foot and Little Foot | Finalist |
| 2018 | Asia Citro | Marion Lindsay | Caterflies and Ice | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anna Humphrey | Kass Reich | Megabat | Finalist |
| 2018 | H. M. Bouwman | Charlie Alder | Owen and Eleanor Move In | Finalist |
| 2018 | Alice Kuipers | Diana Toledano | Polly Diamond and the Magic Book | Finalist |
| 2019 | Megan Frazer Blakemore | Nadja Sarell | Frankie Sparks and the Class Pet | Winner |
| 2019 | Rachel Vail | | A Is for Elizabeth | Finalist |
| 2019 | Chitra Soundar | Uma Krishnaswamy | Mangoes, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship: Stories from India | Finalist |
| 2019 | Alex T. Smith | | Mr. Penguin and the Lost Treasure | Finalist |
| 2019 | Julian Gough | | Rabbit & Bear: Rabbit's Bad Habits | Finalist |
| 2020 | Lauren Castillo | | Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us | Winner |
| 2020 | Lyla Lee | Dung Ho | Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business | Finalist |
| 2020 | Hannah Barnaby | Anoosha Syed | Monster and Boy | Finalist |
| 2020 | Andrea Beaty | David Roberts | Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kate DiCamillo | Chris Van Dusen | Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jacqueline Davies | Deborah Hocking | Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World | Winner |
| 2021 | Gary D. Schmidt and Elizabeth Stickney | Eugene Yelchin | A Long Road on a Short Day | Finalist |
| 2021 | Carter Higgins | Jennifer K. Mann | Audrey L and Audrey W: Best Friends-ish | Finalist |
| 2021 | Atinuke | Onyinye Iwu | Too Small Tola | Finalist |
| 2021 | Saadia Faruqi | | Yasmin the Scientist | Finalist |
| 2022 | Kallie George | Birgitta Sif | Crimson Twill: Witch in the City | Winner |
| 2022 | Cynthia Lord | Stephanie Graegin | Marco Polo Brave Explorer | Finalist |
| 2022 | Martha Brockenbrough | Jon Lau | Frank and the Bad Surprise | Finalist |
| 2022 | Dawn Quigley | Tara Audibert | Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants | Finalist |
| 2022 | Matt Phelan | Matt Phelan | Leave It to Plum! | Finalist |
| 2022 | A. I. Newton | Anjan Sarkar | Artemis, the Archer Goddess | Finalist |
| 2022 | Mark David Smith | Kari Rust | The Weird Sisters: A Note, a Goat, and a Casserole | Finalist |

### Easy readers (2008–)

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Title | Result |
| 2008 | Mo Willems | | I Love My New Toy | Winner |
| 2008 | James Howe | Marie-Louise Gay | Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time | Finalists |
| 2008 | Mo Willems | | I Will Surprise My Friend! | Finalists |
| 2008 | Katie Speck | Paul Rátz de Tagyos | Maybelle Goes to Tea | Finalists |
| 2008 | Kate Dicamillo | Chris Van Dusen | Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig | Finalists |
| 2009 | Mo Willems | | Watch Me Throw the Ball! | Winner |
| 2009 | David Catrow | | Max Spaniel: Dinosaur Hunt | Finalists |
| 2009 | Lori Ries | Frank W. Dormer | Good Dog, Aggie | Finalists |
| 2009 | Cynthia Rylant | Arthur Howard | Mr. Putter & Tabby Spill the Beans | Finalists |
| 2009 | Joan Holub | Tim Bowers | Shampoodle | Finalists |
| 2010 | Mo Willems | | We Are in a Book! | Winner |
| 2010 | Erica Silverman | Betsy Lewin | Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Spring Babies | Finalists |
| 2010 | Tedd Arnold | | Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl | Finalists |
| 2010 | Melissa Stewart | | National Geographic Readers: Ants | Finalists |
| 2010 | Dori Chaconas | Lisa McCue | Cork and Fuzz: The Babysitters | Finalists |
| 2011 | Mo Willems | | I Broke My Trunk! | Winner |
| 2011 | Lori Ries | Frank W. Dormer | Aggie Gets Lost | Finalist |
| 2011 | Tim Egan | | Dodsworth in Rome | Finalist |
| 2011 | Eve Bunting | Josée Masse | Frog and Friends | Finalist |
| 2012 | Frank Viva | | A Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse | Winner |
| 2012 | Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee | Tony Fucile | Bink and Gollie: Two for One | Finalist |
| 2012 | Kevin Henkes | | Penny and Her Doll | Finalist |
| 2012 | Kevin Henkes | | Penny and Her Song | Finalist |
| 2012 | Michael J. Daley | Thomas F. Yezerski | Pinch and Dash Make Soup | Finalist |
| 2013 | Dosh Archer | | Urgency Emergency! Big Bad Wolf | Winner |
| 2013 | Mo Willems | | A Big Guy Took My Ball! | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jamie Michalak | Frank Remkiewicz | Joe and Sparky Go to School | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jonathan Fenske | | Love Is in the Air | Finalist |
| 2013 | Kevin Henkes | | Penny and Her Marble | Finalist |
| 2013 | Josh Schneider | | The Meanest Birthday Girl | Finalist |
| 2014 | Maxwell Eaton III | | Okay, Andy! | Winner |
| 2014 | Ethan Long | | Clara and Clem Under the Sea | Finalist |
| 2014 | Sarah Dillard | | Extraordinary Warren: A Super Chicken | Finalist |
| 2014 | Melissa Wiley | Ag Jatkowska | Inch and Roly and the Sunny Day Scare | Finalist |
| 2014 | Mo Willems | | My New Friend Is So Fun! | Finalist |
| 2014 | Alex Milway | | Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jennifer E. Morris | | The Ice Cream Shop | Finalist |
| 2015 | Grace Lin | | Ling & Ting: Twice as Silly | Winner |
| 2015 | Jonathan Fenske | | A Pig, a Fox, and a Box | Finalist |
| 2015 | David A. Adler | Sam Ricks | Don't Throw It to Mo! | Finalist |
| 2015 | Ethan Long | | In, Over and On the Farm | Finalist |
| 2015 | Kitson Jazynka | | Rosa Parks | Finalist |
| 2015 | Shelby Alinsky | | Slither, Snake! | Finalist |
| 2015 | Jacqueline Jules | Kim Smith | Picture Perfect | Finalist |
| 2016 | Tina Kugler | | Snail and Worm: Three Stories About Two Friends | Winner |
| 2016 | Mo Willems | | The Cookie Fiasco | Finalist |
| 2016 | Elise Gravel | | The Great Antonio | Finalist |
| 2016 | Kara LaReau | Matt Myers | The Infamous Ratsos | Finalist |
| 2016 | Cece Bell | | Rabbit and Robot and Ribbit | Finalist |
| 2016 | Laurie Keller | | We Are Growing! | Finalist |
| 2017 | Dori Hillestad Butler | Nancy Meyers | King & Kayla and the Case of the Secret Code | Winner |
| 2017 | Laurel Snyder | Emily Hughes | Charlie & Mouse & Grumpy | Finalist |
| 2017 | Shelley Rotner | | I Like the Farm | Finalist |
| 2017 | Salina Yoon | | My Kite is Stuck! and Other Stories | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jan Thomas | | There's a Pest in the Garden! | Finalist |
| 2017 | Candice Ransom | Monique Dong | Tooth Fairy's Night | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jonathan Fenske | | We Need More Nuts! | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jan Thomas | | What Is Chasing Duck? | Finalist |
| 2018 | Corey R. Tabor | | Fox the Tiger | Winner |
| 2018 | Laura Driscoll | Catalina Echeverri | I Want to Be a Doctor | Finalist |
| 2018 | J. E. Morris | | Much Too Much Birthday | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jan Thomas | | My Toothbrush Is Missing | Finalist |
| 2018 | Paula Yoo | Shirley Ng-Benitez | The Perfect Gift | Finalist |
| 2019 | Saadia Faruqi | Hatem Aly | Yasmin the Superhero | Winner |
| 2019 | Sergio Ruzzier | | Fox & Chick: The Quiet Boat Ride and Other Stories | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jamie Michalak | Bob Kolar | Frank and Bean | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jonathan Fenske | | Hello, Crabby!: An Acorn Book | Finalist |
| 2020 | David LaRochelle | Mike Wohnoutka | See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog | Winner |
| 2020 | Laura Gehl | Fred Blunt | Cat Has a Plan | Finalist |
| 2020 | Dori Hillestad Butler | Nancy Meyers | King & Kayla and the Case of the Unhappy Neighbor | Finalist |
| 2020 | Katharine Kenah | Abby Carter | The Best Seat in First Grade | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kelly Starling Lyons | Nina Mata | Ty's Travels: All Aboard! | Finalist |
| 2020 | Ryan T. Higgins | Mo Willems | What About Worms!? | Finalist |
| 2020 | Saadia Faruqi | Hatem Aly | Yasmin the Gardener | Finalist |
| 2021 | David LaRochelle | Mike Wohnoutka | See the Dog: Three Stories About a Cat | Winner |
| 2021 | Sam Wedelich | | Chicken Little and the Big Bad Wolf | Finalist |
| 2021 | Corey R. Tabor | | Fox at Night | Finalist |
| 2021 | Maggie P. Chang | | Geraldine Pu and Her Lunch Box, Too! | Finalist |
| 2021 | Meika Hashimoto | Gillian Reid | Kitty and Dragon | Finalist |
| 2021 | Saadia Faruqi | Hatem Aly | Yasmin the Librarian | Finalist |
| 2022 | Emma Otheguy | Andrés Landazábal | Reina Ramos Works It Out | Winner |
| 2022 | Matthew Cordell | | Cornbread & Poppy | Finalist |
| 2022 | Melissa Iwai | Melissa Iwai | Gigi and Ojiji | Finalist |
| 2022 | Steph Waldo | Steph Waldo | Tiny Tales: A Feast for Friends | Finalist |
| 2022 | Kelly Starling Lyons | Niña Mata | Ty's Travels: Lab Magic | Finalist |
| 2022 | Ryan T. Higgins | Ryan T. Higgins | World of Reading: Mother Bruce Ballet Bruce | Finalist |

### Speculative fiction (2006–)
#### General science fiction and fantasy (2006)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Jonathan Stroud | Ptolemy's Gate | Winner |
| 2006 | Cliff McNish, illus. by Geoff Taylor | Silver City | Finalists |
| 2006 | Tamora Pierce | Beka Cooper: Terrier | Finalists |
| 2006 | Silvana De Mari, trans. by Shaun Whiteside | The Last Dragon | Finalists |
| 2006 | Melanie Gideon | Pucker | Finalists |

#### Elementary and middle grade (2007–)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2007 | Adam Rex | The True Meaning of Smekday | Winner |
| 2007 | Laura Ruby | The Chaos King | Finalists |
| 2007 | Sarah Beth Durst | Into the Wild | Finalists |
| 2007 | Nancy Farmer | The Land of the Silver Apples | Finalists |
| 2007 | Derek Landy, illus. by Tom Percival | Skulduggery Pleasant | Finalists |
| 2008 | Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean | The Graveyard Book | Winner |
| 2008 | Marie Rutkoski | Cabinet of Wonders | Finalist |
| 2008 | D. M. Cornish | Lamplighter | Finalist |
| 2008 | Sarah Prineas, illus. by Antonio Javier Caparo | The Magic Thief | Finalist |
| 2008 | Ingrid Law | Savvy | Finalist |
| 2009 | Laini Taylor | Silksinger | Winner |
| 2009 | Wendy Mass | 11 Birthdays | Finalist |
| 2009 | Joni Sensel | The Farwalker's Quest | Finalist |
| 2009 | Neil Gaiman | Odd and the Frost Giants | Finalist |
| 2009 | Julianna Baggott | The Prince of Fenway Park | Finalist |
| 2009 | Joan Aiken | The Serial Garden | Finalist |
| 2009 | Grace Lin | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jacqueline West | The Shadows (Books of Elsewhere, Vol. 1), | Winner |
| 2010 | Michael Grant | The Call | Finalists |
| 2010 | Buckingham | The Dead Boys | Finalists |
| 2010 | Ursula Vernon | Dragonbreath: Attack of the Ninja Frogs | Finalists |
| 2010 | Philip Reeve | Fever Crumb | Finalists |
| 2010 | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Ninth Ward | Finalists |
| 2010 | Cornelia Funke | Reckless | Finalists |
| 2011 | Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, illustrated by Barry Moser | The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale | Winner |
| 2011 | Patrick Ness | A Monster Calls | Finalist |
| 2011 | Anne Ursu | Breadcrumbs | Finalist |
| 2011 | Joseph Bruchac | Dragon Castle | Finalist |
| 2011 | Matthew J. Kirby | Icefall | Finalist |
| 2011 | Chris Moriarty | The Inquisitor's Apprentice | Finalist |
| 2011 | Jessica Day George | Tuesdays at the Castle | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jennifer A. Nielsen | The False Prince | Winner |
| 2012 | Kate Saunders | Beswitched | Finalist |
| 2012 | Mike Jung | Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities | Finalist |
| 2012 | Anne Nesbet | The Cabinet of Earths | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jasper Fforde | The Last Dragonslayer | Finalist |
| 2012 | Katherine Applegate | The One and Only Ivan | Finalist |
| 2012 | Stefan Bachmann | The Peculiar | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jonathan Stroud | The Screaming Staircase | Winner |
| 2013 | Sage Blackwood | Jinx | Finalist |
| 2013 | Holly Webb | Rose | Finalist |
| 2013 | John David Anderson | Sidekicked | Finalist |
| 2013 | Brandon Sanderson | The Rithmatist | Finalist |
| 2013 | Kathi Appelt | The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp | Finalist |
| 2013 | Megan Frazer Blakemore | The Water Castle | Finalist |
| 2014 | Paul Durham | The Luck Uglies | Winner |
| 2014 | N. D. Wilson | Boys of Blur | Finalist |
| 2014 | Kate Milford | Greenglass House | Finalist |
| 2014 | Lynne Rae Perkins | Nuts to You | Finalist |
| 2014 | Merrie Haskell | The Castle Behind Thorns | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jason Fry | The Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the Hydra | Finalist |
| 2014 | Charis Cotter | The Swallow | Finalist |
| 2015 | Joel Ross | The Fog Diver | Winner |
| 2015 | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Bayou Magic | Finalist |
| 2015 | Ursula Vernon | Castle Hangnail | Finalist |
| 2015 | Frances Hardinge | Cuckoo Song | Finalist |
| 2015 | Sophia McDougall | Mars Evacuees | Finalist |
| 2015 | John David Anderson | The Dungeoneers | Finalist |
| 2015 | Tui T. Sutherland | Moon Rising | Finalist |
| 2016 | Joshua Khan | Shadow Magic | Winner |
| 2016 | Delia Sherman | The Evil Wizard Smallbone | Finalist |
| 2016 | Megan Frazer Blakemore | The Firefly Code | Finalist |
| 2016 | Andrew Chilton | The Goblin's Puzzle: Being the Adventures of a Boy with No Name and Two Girls Called Alice | Finalist |
| 2016 | Bryce Moore | The Memory Thief | Finalist |
| 2016 | Claire Fayers | The Voyage to Magical North | Finalist |
| 2016 | Grace Lin | When the Sea Turned to Silver | Finalist |
| 2017 | Stephanie Burgis | The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart | Winner |
| 2017 | Frances Hardinge | A Face Like Glass | Finalist |
| 2017 | William Alexander | A Properly Unhaunted Place | Finalist |
| 2017 | Kevin Emerson | Last Day on Mars | Finalist |
| 2017 | Sage Blackwood | Miss Ellicott's School for the Magically Minded | Finalist |
| 2017 | Ellen Oh | Spirit Hunters | Finalist |
| 2017 | Katie Slivensky | The Countdown Conspiracy | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jessica Townsend | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow | Winner |
| 2018 | Kenneth Oppel | Inkling | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anna Meriano | Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble | Finalist |
| 2018 | Adam Jay Epstein | Snared: Escape to the Above | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jonathan Auxier | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Finalist |
| 2018 | Sarah Beth Durst | The Stone Girl's Story | Finalist |
| 2018 | Zac Gorman | Thisby Thestoop and the Black Mountain | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kwame Mbalia | Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | Winner |
| 2019 | Greg van Eekhout | Cog | Finalist |
| 2019 | Tom O'Donnell | Homerooms and Hall Passes | Finalist |
| 2019 | Anna Meriano | Love Sugar Magic: A Sprinkle of Spirits | Finalist |
| 2019 | Carlos Hernandez | Sal and Gabi Break the Universe | Finalist |
| 2019 | Sarah Jean Horwitz | The Dark Lord Clementine | Finalist |
| 2019 | Geoff Rodkey | We're Not from Here | Finalist |
| 2020 | Deva Fagan | Rival Magic | Winner |
| 2020 | Christina Soontornvat | A Wish in the Dark | Finalist |
| 2020 | Alex Aster | Curse of the Night Witch | Finalist |
| 2020 | Julie Abe | Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch | Finalist |
| 2020 | Swiedler | In the Red | Finalist |
| 2020 | Grace Lin, illus. by Grace Lin | Mulan: Before the Sword | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kate Alice Marshall | Thirteens | Finalist |
| 2021 | Kaela Rivera | Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls | Winner |
| 2021 | Justina Ireland | Ophie's Ghosts | Finalist |
| 2021 | B. B. Alston | Amari and the Night Brothers | Finalist |
| 2021 | Sangu Mandanna | Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom | Finalist |
| 2021 | Donna Barba Higuera | The Last Cuentista | Finalist |
| 2021 | Anne Ursu | The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy | Finalist |
| 2021 | Kyle Lukoff | Too Bright to See | Finalist |
| 2022 | Deva Fagan | The Mirrorwood | Winner |
| 2022 | Tracy Badua | Freddie vs. the Family Curse | Finalist |
| 2022 | Dhonielle Clayton, illus. by Khadijah Khatib | The Marvellers | Finalist |
| 2022 | Lora Senf | The Clackity | Finalist |
| 2022 | Karen Strong | Eden's Everdark | Finalist |
| 2022 | Efua Traoré | Children of the Quicksands | Finalist |
| 2022 | Greg van Eekhout | Fenris & Mott | Finalist |

#### Young adult (2007–)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2007 | Shannon Hale | Book of a Thousand Days | Winner |
| 2007 | Catherine Fisher | Incarceron | Finalists |
| 2007 | Meg Burden | Northlander | Finalists |
| 2007 | A. M. Jenkins | Repossessed | Finalists |
| 2007 | Kathleen Duey | Skin Hunger | Finalists |
| 2008 | Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games | Winner |
| 2008 | Eoin Colfer | Airman | Finalists |
| 2008 | Elizabeth C. Bunce | Curse Dark as Gold | Finalists |
| 2008 | Jenny Davidson | Explosionist | Finalists |
| 2008 | Kristin Cashore | Graceling | Finalists |
| 2008 | Lisa McMann | Wake | Finalists |
| 2009 | Kristin Cashore | Fire | Winner |
| 2009 | Pam Bachorz | Candor | Finalist |
| 2009 | Sarah Rees Brennan | The Demon's Lexicon | Finalist |
| 2009 | A. S. King | The Dust of 100 Dogs | Finalist |
| 2009 | Laini Taylor | Lips Touch | Finalist |
| 2009 | Kathleen Duey | Sacred Scars | Finalist |
| 2009 | Antonia Michaelis | Tiger Moon | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jonathan Maberry | Rot & Ruin | Winner |
| 2010 | Brian Falkner | Brain Jack | Finalists |
| 2010 | Karen Healey | Guardian of the Dead | Finalists |
| 2010 | Erin Bow | Plain Kate | Finalists |
| 2010 | Stephen Wallenfels | Pod | Finalists |
| 2010 | Paolo Bacigalupi | Ship Breaker | Finalists |
| 2010 | Donna Jo Napoli | The Wager | Finalists |
| 2011 | Moira Young | Blood Red Road | Winner |
| 2011 | Susan Ee | Angelfall | Finalist |
| 2011 | Kendare Blake | Anna Dressed in Blood | Finalist |
| 2011 | Jon Skovron | Misfit | Finalist |
| 2011 | Holly Black | Red Glove | Finalist |
| 2011 | Rae Carson | The Girl of Fire and Thorns | Finalist |
| 2011 | Karen Healey | The Shattering | Finalist |
| 2012 | Rachel Hartman | Seraphina | Winner |
| 2012 | Andrea K Höst | And All the Stars | Finalist |
| 2012 | David Levithan | Every Day | Finalist |
| 2012 | Ian McDonald | Planesrunner | Finalist |
| 2012 | Brenna Yovanoff, Tessa Gratton, and Maggie Stiefvater | The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories | Finalist |
| 2012 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Drowned Cities | Finalist |
| 2012 | Sarah Beth Durst | Vessel | Finalist |
| 2013 | Alaya Dawn Johnson | The Summer Prince | Winner |
| 2013 | Sarah Beth Durst | Conjured | Finalist |
| 2013 | Robin LaFevers | Dark Triumph | Finalist |
| 2013 | Laura Lam | Pantomime | Finalist |
| 2013 | Robin McKinley | Shadows | Finalist |
| 2013 | Robin Wasserman | The Waking Dark | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ian Doescher | William Shakespeare's Star Wars | Finalist |
| 2014 | Matt de la Peña | The Living | Winner |
| 2014 | Leah Cypess | Death Sworn | Finalist |
| 2014 | A. S. King | Glory O'Brien's History of the Future | Finalist |
| 2014 | John Corey Whaley | Noggin | Finalist |
| 2014 | Alexandra Duncan | Salvage | Finalist |
| 2014 | Marie Rutkoski | The Winner's Curse | Finalist |
| 2014 | Karen Healey | While We Run | Finalist |
| 2015 | Nova Ren Suma | The Walls Around Us | Winner |
| 2015 | Leah Bobet | An Inheritance of Ashes | Finalist |
| 2015 | Laura Ruby | Bone Gap | Finalist |
| 2015 | Robin LaFevers | Mortal Heart | Finalist |
| 2015 | Daniel José Older | Shadowshaper | Finalist |
| 2015 | April Genevieve Tucholke | Slasher Girls & Monster Boys | Finalist |
| 2015 | Mark Alpert | The Six | Finalist |
| 2016 | Amie Kaufman | Illuminae | Winner |
| 2016 | Zoraida Cordova | Labyrinth Lost | Finalist |
| 2016 | A. S. King | Still Life with Tornado | Finalist |
| 2016 | Zetta Elliott | The Door at the Crossroads | Finalist |
| 2016 | Rachel Neumeier | The Keeper of the Mist | Finalist |
| 2016 | Victoria Schwab | This Savage Song | Finalist |
| 2016 | Anna-Marie McLemore | When the Moon was Ours | Finalist |
| 2017 | Neal Shusterman | Scythe | Winner |
| 2017 | Sarah Tolcser | Song of the Current | Finalist |
| 2017 | Emily Lloyd-Jones | The Hearts We Sold | Finalist |
| 2017 | F. T. Lukens | The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic | Finalist |
| 2017 | Adam Silvera | They Both Die at the End | Finalist |
| 2017 | Leigh Bardugo | Wonder Woman: Warbringer | Finalist |
| 2018 | Rachel Hartman | Tess of the Road | Winner |
| 2018 | Justina Ireland | Dread Nation | Finalist |
| 2018 | Somaiya Daud | Mirage | Finalist |
| 2018 | Rebecca Schaeffer | Not Even Bones | Finalist |
| 2018 | Courtney Alameda | Pitch Dark | Finalist |
| 2018 | Katrina Leno | Summer of Salt | Finalist |
| 2018 | Emily Suvada | This Mortal Coil | Finalist |
| 2019 | Rosaria Munda | Fireborne | Winner |
| 2019 | Amie Kaufman | Aurora Rising | Finalist |
| 2019 | Joanna Ruth Meyer | Echo North | Finalist |
| 2019 | Samira Ahmed | Internment | Finalist |
| 2019 | Margaret Rogers | Sorcery of Thorns | Finalist |
| 2019 | Holly Black | The Wicked King | Finalist |
| 2019 | Tochi Onyebuchi | War Girls | Finalist |
| 2020 | Aiden Thomas | Cemetery Boys | Winner |
| 2020 | Patrick Ness | Burn | Finalist |
| 2020 | Darcie Little Badger, illus. by Rovina Cai | Elatsoe | Finalist |
| 2020 | Deonn | Legendborn | Finalist |
| 2020 | Elana K. Arnold | Red Hood | Finalist |
| 2020 | Raquel Vasquez Gilliland | Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kiersten White | The Guinevere Deception | Finalist |
| 2021 | Margaret Rogerson | Vespertine | Winner |
| 2021 | Jessica Lewis | Bad Witch Burning | Finalist |
| 2021 | Xiran Jay Zhao | Iron Widow | Finalist |
| 2021 | Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | Finalist |
| 2021 | Margaret Forna | The Gilded Ones | Finalist |
| 2021 | Anna-Marie McLemore | The Mirror Season | Finalist |
| 2021 | Joan He | The Ones We're Meant to Find | Finalist |
| 2022 | Rebecca Podos | From Dust, a Flame | Winner |
| 2022 | Aislinn Brophy | How to Succeed in Witchcraft | Finalist |
| 2022 | Tiffany D. Jackson | The Weight of Blood | Finalist |
| 2022 | Darcie Little Badger | A Snake Falls to Earth | Finalist |
| 2022 | Axie Oh | The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea | Finalist |
| 2022 | Margaret Owen | Little Thieves | Finalist |
| 2022 | Rachel Lynn Solomon | See You Yesterday | Finalist |

### Fiction
#### Picture book (2006–)

| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Mélanie Watt | Scaredy Squirrel | Winner |
| 2006 | Emily Gravett | Wolves | Finalists |
| 2006 | Kimberly Willis Holt, illus. by Gabi Swiatkowska | Waiting for Gregory | Finalists |
| 2006 | Sebastian Meschenmoser | Learning to Fly | Finalists |
| 2006 | Komako Sakai | Emily's Balloon | Finalists |
| 2007 | Janice N. Harrington, illus. by Shelley Jackson | The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County | Winner |
| 2007 | Adam Rex | Pssst! | Finalists |
| 2007 | Natasha Wing, illus. by Sylvie Kantorovitz | Go to Bed, Monster! | Finalists |
| 2007 | David Ezra Stein | Leaves | Finalists |
| 2007 | Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammad, illus. by Doug Chayka | Four Feet, Two Sandals | Finalists |
| 2007 | Mo Willems | Knuffle Bunny Too | Finalists |
| 2007 | Oliver Jeffers | The Incredible Book-Eating Boy | Finalists |
| 2008 | Bob Graham | How to Heal a Broken Wing | Winner |
| 2008 | Deborah Hopkinson, illus. by John Hendrix | Abe Lincoln Crosses Creek | Finalists |
| 2008 | Franny Billingsley, illus. by G. Brian Karas | The Big Bad Bunny | Finalists |
| 2008 | Mélanie Watt | Chester's Back | Finalists |
| 2008 | John Himmelman | Katie Loves the Kittens | Finalists |
| 2008 | Dashka Slater, illus. by Catia Chien | The Sea Serpent and Me | Finalists |
| 2008 | Bonny Becker, illus. by Kady Denton | A Visitor for Bear | Finalists |
| 2008 | Mark Reibstein, illus. by Ed Young | Wabi Sabi | Finalists |
| 2009 | Liz Garton Scanlon, illus. by Marla Frazee | All the World | Winner |
| 2009 | John Perry, illus. by Mark Fearing | The Book That Eats People | Finalist |
| 2009 | Peter Brown | The Curious Garden | Finalist |
| 2009 | Peter McCarty | Jeremy Draws a Monster | Finalist |
| 2009 | Jerry Pinkney | The Lion & the Mouse | Finalist |
| 2009 | Gloria Whelan, illus. by Mike Benny | The Listeners | Finalist |
| 2009 | Eileen Spinelli, illus. by David Slonim | Silly Tilly | Finalist |
| 2010 | David Ezra Stein | Interrupting Chicken | Winner |
| 2010 | Karen Lynn Williams, illus. by Floyd Cooper | A Beach Tail | Finalist |
| 2010 | Bill Thomson | Chalk | Finalist |
| 2010 | Karma Wilson, illus. by Marcellus Hall | The Cow Loves Cookies | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Matt Phelan | Flora's Very Windy Day | Finalist |
| 2010 | Chris Barton, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld | Shark vs. Train | Finalist |
| 2010 | Philip C. Stead, illus. by Erin E. Stead | A Sick Day for Amos McGee | Finalist |
| 2011 | Patrick McDonnell | Me ... Jane | Winner |
| 2011 | John Rocco | Blackout | Finalist |
| 2011 | Susan A. Shea, illus. by Tom Slaughter | Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? | Finalist |
| 2011 | Boni Ashburn, illus. by Julia Denos | I Had a Favorite Dress | Finalist |
| 2011 | Jon Klassen | I Want My Hat Back | Finalist |
| 2011 | Hervé Tullet | Press Here | Finalist |
| 2011 | Jonathan Emmett, illus. by Poly Bernatene | The Princess and the Pig | Finalist |
| 2012 | Philip C. Stead | A Home for Bird | Winner |
| 2012 | Levi Pinfold | Black Dog | Finalist |
| 2012 | Mac Barnett, illus. by Adam Rex | Chloe and the Lion | Finalist |
| 2012 | Aaron Reynolds, illus. by Peter Brown | Creepy Carrots! | Finalist |
| 2012 | Mac Barnett, illus. by Jon Klassen | Extra Yarn | Finalist |
| 2012 | Kate Hosford, illus. by Gabi Swiatkowska | Infinity and Me | Finalist |
| 2012 | Lola M. Schaefer, illus. by Jessica Meserve | One Special Day | Finalist |
| 2013 | Peter Brown | Mr. Tiger Goes Wild | Winner |
| 2013 | Mac Barnett | Count the Monkeys | Finalist |
| 2013 | Julie Fogliano, illus. by Erin E. Stead | If You Want to See a Whale | Finalist |
| 2013 | Aaron Becker | Journey | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jesse Klausmeier, illus. by Suzy Lee | Open This Little Book | Finalist |
| 2013 | Pat Zietlow Miller, illus. by Anne Wilsdorf | Sophie's Squash | Finalist |
| 2013 | Benjamin Chaud | The Bear's Song | Finalist |
| 2014 | Chris Haughton | Shh! We Have a Plan | Winner |
| 2014 | Andrew Prahin | Brimsby's Hats | Finalist |
| 2014 | Deborah Underwood, illus. by Claudia Rueda | Here Comes the Easter Cat | Finalist |
| 2014 | Daniel Beaty, illus. by Bryan Collier | Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me | Finalist |
| 2014 | Lori Nichols | Maple | Finalist |
| 2014 | Mark Pett | The Girl and the Bicycle | Finalist |
| 2014 | Richard T. Morris, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld | This Is a Moose | Finalist |
| 2015 | JonArno Lawson, illus. by Sydney Smith | Sidewalk Flowers | Winner |
| 2015 | John Rocco | Blizzard | Finalist |
| 2015 | Mélanie Watt | Bug in a Vacuum | Finalist |
| 2015 | Sean Taylor, illus. by Jean Jullien | Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise | Finalist |
| 2015 | Mượn Thị Văn, illus. by April Chu | In a Village by the Sea | Finalist |
| 2015 | Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson | Last Stop on Market Street | Finalist |
| 2015 | Meg Medina, illus. by Angela Domingue | Mango, Abuela, and Me | Finalist |
| 2016 | Lucy Ruth Cummins | A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals | Winner |
| 2016 | Caron Levis, illus. by Charles Santoso | Ida, Always | Finalist |
| 2016 | Daniel Bernstrom, illus. by Brendan Wenzel | One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree | Finalist |
| 2016 | Lisa Mantchev, illus. by Taeeun Yoo | Strictly No Elephants | Finalist |
| 2016 | Terry Fan | The Night Gardener | Finalist |
| 2016 | Ross Collins | There's a Bear on My Chair | Finalist |
| 2016 | Brendan Wenzel | They All Saw a Cat | Finalist |
| 2017 | Elisha Cooper | Big Cat, Little Cat | Winner |
| 2017 | Dan Santat | After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again | Finalist |
| 2017 | David Elliott, illus. by Melissa Sweet | Baabwaa and Wooliam | Finalist |
| 2017 | Aaron Reynolds, illus. by Peter Brown | Creepy Pair of Underwear! | Finalist |
| 2017 | Dashka Slater, illus. by Sydney Hanson | Escargot | Finalist |
| 2017 | John McCutcheon, illus. by Kristy Caldwell | Flowers for Sarajevo | Finalist |
| 2017 | Corinna Luyken | The Book of Mistakes | Finalist |
| 2018 | Ryan T. Higgins | We Don't Eat Our Classmates | Winner |
| 2018 | Juana Martinez-Neal | Alma and How She Got Her Name | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jessica Love | Julián Is a Mermaid | Finalist |
| 2018 | Nicola Davies, illus. by Rebecca Cobb | The Day War Came | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jacqueline Woodson, illus. by Rafael López | The Day You Begin | Finalist |
| 2018 | Cori Doerrfeld | The Rabbit Listened | Finalist |
| 2018 | Brian Lies | The Rough Patch | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kate Read | One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller | Winner |
| 2019 | Brendan Wenzel | A Stone Sat Still | Finalist |
| 2019 | Matthew A. Cherry, illus. by Vashti Harrison | Hair Love | Finalist |
| 2019 | Susanna Leonard Hill, illus. by Elisa Paganelli | Moon's First Friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship | Finalist |
| 2019 | Dan Richards, illus. by Eric Barclay | Once Upon a Goat | Finalist |
| 2019 | Monica Kulling, illus. by Sarah Dvojack | Ruby's Hope: A Story of How the Famous "Migrant Mother" Photograph Became the Face of the Great Depression | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kwame Alexander, illus. by Kadir Nelson | The Undefeated | Finalist |
| 2020 | Derrick Barnes, illus. by Gordon C. James | I Am Every Good Thing | Winner |
| 2020 | Carrie Finison, illus. by Brianne Farley | Dozens of Doughnuts | Finalist |
| 2020 | Jordan Scott, illus. by Sydney Smith | I Talk Like a River | Finalist |
| 2020 | Marcero | In a Jar | Finalist |
| 2020 | Jennifer K. Mann | The Camping Trip | Finalist |
| 2020 | Helena Ku Rhee, illus. by Pascal Campion | The Paper Kingdom | Finalist |
| 2020 | Carole Lindstrom, illus. by Michaela Goade | We Are Water Protectors | Finalist |
| 2021 | Andrea Wang, illus. by Jason Chin | Watercress | Winner |
| 2021 | Lori Mortensen, illus. by Rob Sayegh Jr. | Arlo Draws an Octopus | Finalist |
| 2021 | Tyler Feder | Bodies Are Cool | Finalist |
| 2021 | Amanda Gorman, illus. by Loren Long | Change Sings: A Children's Anthem | Finalist |
| 2021 | Shannon Hale | Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn | Finalist |
| 2021 | Lisa Wheeler, illus. by Loren Long | Someone Builds the Dream | Finalist |
| 2021 | Gideon Sterer, illus. by Di Giorgio | The Midnight Fair | Finalist |
| 2022 | Christopher Denise | Knight Owl | Winner |
| 2022 | Laura Gehl, illus. by Patricia Metola | Apple and Magnolia | Finalist |
| 2022 | Sophie Blackall | Farmhouse | Finalist |
| 2022 | Logan S. Kline | Finding Fire | Finalist |
| 2022 | Naseem Hrab, illus. by Kelly Collier | How to Party Like a Snail | Finalist |
| 2022 | Antwan Eady, illus. by Gracey Zhang | Nigel and the Moon | Finalist |
| 2022 | Deborah Marcero | Out of a Jar | Finalist |

#### Middle grade (2006–)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Laura Amy Schlitz | A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama | Winner |
| 2006 | Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Framed | Finalists |
| 2006 | Mike Lupica | Heat | Finalists |
| 2006 | Kirsten Miller | Kiki Strike | Finalists |
| 2006 | Cynthia Kadohata | Weedflower | Finalists |
| 2007 | Linda Urban | A Crooked Kind of Perfect | Winner |
| 2007 | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | Leap of Faith | Finalists |
| 2007 | Cynthia Kadohata | Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam | Finalists |
| 2007 | Kerry Madden | Louisiana's Song | Finalists |
| 2007 | Sarah Miller | Miss Spitfire | Finalists |
| 2007 | Pat Murphy | Wild Girls | Finalists |
| 2007 | Lauren Tarshis | Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree | Finalists |
| 2007 | Nathan D. Wilson | Leepike Ridge | Finalists |
| 2008 | Siobhan Dowd | The London Eye Mystery | Winner |
| 2008 | Lenore Look | Alvin Ho | Finalists |
| 2008 | Helen Frost | Diamond Willow | Finalists |
| 2008 | Wendy Mass | Every Soul a Star | Finalists |
| 2008 | Frances O'Roark Dowell | Shooting the Moon | Finalists |
| 2009 | Laurie Halse Anderson | Chains | Winner |
| 2009 | Ann Burg | All the Broken Pieces | Finalist |
| 2009 | Nora Raleigh Baskin | Anything But Typical | Finalist |
| 2009 | Dean Pitchford | Captain Nobody | Finalist |
| 2009 | Rosanne Parry | Heart of a Shepherd | Finalist |
| 2009 | Sara Lewis Holmes | Operation Yes | Finalist |
| 2009 | Barbara O'Connor | The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis | Finalist |
| 2010 | Tom Angleberger | The Strange Case of Origami Yoda | Winner |
| 2010 | Rob Buyea | Because of Mr. Terupt | Finalist |
| 2010 | Stuart Gibbs | Belly Up | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lisa Railsback | Betti on the High Wire | Finalist |
| 2010 | Leslie Connor | Crunch | Finalist |
| 2010 | Alan Silberberg | Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze | Finalist |
| 2010 | Ellen Potter | The Kneebone Boy | Finalist |
| 2011 | Elissa Brent Weissman | Nerd Camp | Winner |
| 2011 | Tom Angleberger | Darth Paper Strikes Back | Finalist |
| 2011 | G. Neri | Ghetto Cowboy | Finalist |
| 2011 | Kirby Larson | The Friendship Doll | Finalist |
| 2011 | Wendy Wan-Long Shang | The Great Wall of Lucy Wu | Finalist |
| 2011 | Lisa Yee | Warp Speed | Finalist |
| 2011 | Trent Reedy | Words in the Dust | Finalist |
| 2012 | R. J. Palacio | Wonder | Winner |
| 2012 | Joan Bauer | Almost Home | Finalist |
| 2012 | Carl Hiaasen | Chomp | Finalist |
| 2012 | Watt Key | Fourmile | Finalist |
| 2012 | Rebecca Stead | Liar & Spy | Finalist |
| 2012 | Lisa Harkrader | The Adventures of Beanboy | Finalist |
| 2012 | Kristin Levine | The Lions of Little Rock | Finalist |
| 2013 | David Carroll | Ultra | Winner |
| 2013 | Chris Grabenstein | Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library | Finalist |
| 2013 | Alan Gratz | Prisoner B-3087 | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ann E. Burg | Serafina's Promise | Finalist |
| 2013 | Greg Pincus | The 14 Fibs of Gregory K. | Finalist |
| 2014 | Dean Pitchford | Nickel Bay Nick | Winner |
| 2014 | Varsha Bajaj | Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood | Finalist |
| 2014 | Dairman | All Four Stars | Finalist |
| 2014 | Donna Gephart | Death by Toilet Paper | Finalist |
| 2014 | Terry Lynn Johnson | Ice Dogs | Finalist |
| 2014 | Kwame Alexander | The Crossover | Finalist |
| 2014 | Megan Jean Sovern | The Meaning of Maggie | Finalist |
| 2015 | Kevin Sands | The Blackthorn Key | Winner |
| 2015 | Erin Entrada Kelly | Blackbird Fly | Finalist |
| 2015 | Jennifer Chambliss Bertman | Book Scavenger | Finalist |
| 2015 | Susan Vaught | Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy | Finalist |
| 2015 | Thanhha Lai | Listen, Slowly | Finalist |
| 2016 | Jason Reynolds | Ghost | Winner |
| 2016 | Jennifer L. Holm | Full of Beans | Finalist |
| 2016 | Joseph Marshall | In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse | Finalist |
| 2016 | John David Anderson | Ms. Bixby's Last Day | Finalist |
| 2016 | Sarah Weeks | Save Me a Seat | Finalist |
| 2016 | Gordon Korman | Slacker | Finalist |
| 2016 | Claire Legrand | Some Kind of Happiness | Finalist |
| 2017 | Alan Gratz | Refugee | Winner |
| 2017 | Hena Khan | Amina's Voice | Finalist |
| 2017 | Steven B. Frank | Armstrong and Charlie | Finalist |
| 2017 | Beth Vrabel | Caleb and Kit | Finalist |
| 2017 | Dusti Bowling | Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus | Finalist |
| 2017 | Gordon Korman | Restart | Finalist |
| 2017 | Pablo Cartaya | The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora | Finalist |
| 2018 | Varian Johnson | The Parker Inheritance | Winner |
| 2018 | Kelly Yang | Front Desk | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jacqueline Woodson | Harbor Me | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anne O'Brien Carelli | Skylark and Wallcreeper | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jessie Janowitz | The Doughnut Fix | Finalist |
| 2018 | Stacy McAnulty | The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anne Nesbet | The Orphan Band of Springdale | Finalist |
| 2019 | Dan Gemeinhart | The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise | Winner |
| 2019 | Barbara Dee | Maybe He Just Likes You | Finalist |
| 2019 | Sarah Scheerger | Operation Frog Effect | Finalist |
| 2019 | Lindsey Stoddard | Right as Rain | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jamie Sumner | Roll with It | Finalist |
| 2019 | Lynne Kelly | Song for a Whale | Finalist |
| 2019 | Padma Venkatraman | The Bridge Home | Finalist |
| 2020 | Janae Marks | From the Desk of Zoe Washington | Winner |
| 2020 | Lauren Wolk | Echo Mountain | Finalist |
| 2020 | Ernesto Cisneros | Efren Divided | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | Fighting Words | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kacen Callender | King and the Dragonflies | Finalist |
| 2020 | Ann Clare LeZotte | Show Me a Sign | Finalist |
| 2020 | Aida Salazar | The Land of the Cranes | Finalist |
| 2021 | Gordon Korman | Linked | Winner |
| 2021 | Kate Albus | A Place to Hang the Moon | Finalist |
| 2021 | Ellen Oh | Finding Junie Kim | Finalist |
| 2021 | Ann Braden | Flight of the Puffin | Finalist |
| 2021 | Caroline Gertler | Many Points of Me | Finalist |
| 2021 | Chad Lucas | Thanks a Lot, Universe | Finalist |
| 2021 | Barbara Dee | Violets Are Blue | Finalist |
| 2022 | Amina Luqman-Dawson | Freewater | Winner |
| 2022 | Tae Keller | Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone | Finalist |
| 2022 | A. S. King | Attack of the Black Rectangles | Finalist |

#### Young adult (2006–)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Rachel Cohn and David Levithan | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | Winner |
| 2006 | Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | Finalists |
| 2006 | Dana Reinhardt | Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life | Finalists |
| 2006 | Kirby Larson | Hattie Big Sky | Finalists |
| 2006 | Nancy Werlin | Rules of Survival | Finalists |
| 2007 | Barry Lyga | Boy Toy | Winner |
| 2007 | Sherman Alexie | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Finalists |
| 2007 | Nancy Crocker | Billie Standish Was Here | Finalists |
| 2007 | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | The Off Season | Finalists |
| 2007 | Laura Resau | Red Glass | Finalists |
| 2007 | Carrie Jones | Tips on Having a Gay (ex)Boyfriend | Finalists |
| 2007 | Gary D. Schmidt | The Wednesday Wars | Finalists |
| 2008 | E. Lockhart | The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks | Winner |
| 2008 | Robin Benway | Audrey, Wait! | Finalists |
| 2008 | C. K. Kelly Martin | I Know It's Over | Finalists |
| 2008 | Melina Marchetta | On the Jellicoe Road | Finalists |
| 2008 | Sara Zarr | Sweethearts | Finalists |
| 2008 | Christine Fletcher | Ten Cents a Dance | Finalists |
| 2009 | Courtney Summers | Cracked Up To Be | Winner |
| 2009 | Michelle D. Kwasney | Blue Plate Special | Finalist |
| 2009 | Brent Crawford | Carter Finally Gets It | Finalist |
| 2009 | Natalie Standiford | How To Say Goodbye In Robot | Finalist |
| 2009 | Julie Halpern | Into the Wild Nerd Yonder | Finalist |
| 2009 | Justina Chen Headley | North of Beautiful | Finalist |
| 2009 | Laurie Halse Anderson | Wintergirls | Finalist |
| 2010 | Swati Avasthi | Split | Winner |
| 2010 | Watt Key | Dirt Road Home | Finalist |
| 2010 | Tara Kelly | Harmonic Feedback | Finalist |
| 2010 | Erin McCahan | I Now Pronounce You Someone Else | Finalist |
| 2010 | Mark Shulman | Scrawl | Finalist |
| 2010 | Courtney Summers | Some Girls Are | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lucy Christopher | Stolen | Finalist |
| 2011 | Geoff Herbach | Stupid Fast | Winner |
| 2011 | Stephanie Perkins | Anna and the French Kiss | Finalist |
| 2011 | Ruta Sepetys | Between Shades of Gray | Finalist |
| 2011 | Sophie Flack | Bunheads | Finalist |
| 2011 | A. S. King | Everybody Sees the Ants | Finalist |
| 2011 | Marianna Baer | Frost | Finalist |
| 2011 | Joshua C. Cohen | Leverage | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jesse Andrews | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Winner |
| 2012 | Matthew Quick | Boy21 | Finalist |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Wein | Code Name Verity | Finalist |
| 2012 | Eliot Schrefer | Endangered | Finalist |
| 2012 | Barry Lyga | I Hunt Killers | Finalist |
| 2012 | Antonia Michaelis | The Storyteller | Finalist |
| 2012 | J.J. Johnson | The Theory of Everything | Finalist |
| 2013 | Meg Medina | Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass | Winner |
| 2013 | Evan Roskos | Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets | Finalist |
| 2013 | Rainbow Rowell | Eleanor & Park | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ruta Sepetys | Out of The Easy | Finalist |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Wein | Rose Under Fire | Finalist |
| 2013 | Carrie Mesrobian | Sex & Violence | Finalist |
| 2014 | Brandy Colbert | Pointe | Winner |
| 2014 | Isabel Quintero | Gabi, a Girl in Pieces | Finalist |
| 2014 | Gail Giles | Girls Like Us | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jandy Nelson | I'll Give You the Sun | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jason Reynolds | When I Was the Greatest | Finalist |
| 2015 | Tamara Ireland Stone | Every Last Word | Winner |
| 2015 | Courtney Summers | All the Rage | Finalist |
| 2015 | Julie Murphy | Dumplin' | Finalist |
| 2015 | Nicola Yoon | Everything, Everything | Finalist |
| 2015 | Kekla Magoon | How It Went Down | Finalist |
| 2015 | Elana K. Arnold | Infandous | Finalist |
| 2015 | Susan Juby | The Truth Commission | Finalist |
| 2016 | Ruta Sepetys | Salt to the Sea | Winner |
| 2016 | Brittany Cavallaro | A Study in Charlotte | Finalist |
| 2016 | Brie Spangler | Beast | Finalist |
| 2016 | Kody Keplinger | Run | Finalist |
| 2016 | Jeff Zentner | The Serpent King | Finalist |
| 2016 | Karen Fortunati | The Weight of Zero | Finalist |
| 2016 | Marieke Nijkamp | This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp | Finalist |
| 2017 | Renée Watson | Piecing Me Together | Winner |
| 2017 | Jared Reck | A Short History of the Girl Next Door | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jennifer Mathieu | Moxie | Finalist |
| 2017 | S. K. Ali | Saints and Misfits | Finalist |
| 2017 | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | Finalist |
| 2017 | Benjamin Alire Saenz | The Inexplicable Logic of My Life | Finalist |
| 2017 | Erin McCahan | The Lake Effect | Finalist |
| 2018 | Courtney Summers | Sadie | Winner |
| 2018 | Adib Khorram | Darius the Great Is Not Okay | Finalist |
| 2018 | Ashley Herring Blake | Girl Made of Stars | Finalist |
| 2018 | Tiffany D. Jackson | Monday's Not Coming | Finalist |
| 2018 | Ibi Zoboi | Pride | Finalist |
| 2018 | Kody Keplinger | That's Not What Happened | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bryan Bliss | We'll Fly Away | Finalist |
| 2019 | Mindy McGinnis | Heroine | Winner |
| 2019 | Nina Moreno | Don't Date Rosa Santos | Finalist |
| 2019 | Gilly Segal | I'm Not Dying with You Tonight | Finalist |
| 2019 | Angie Thomas | On the Come Up | Finalist |
| 2019 | Randy Ribay | Patron Saints of Nothing | Finalist |
| 2019 | Stacey Lee | The Downstairs Girl | Finalist |
| 2019 | Elizabeth Acevedo | With the Fire on High | Finalist |
| 2020 | Yamile Saied Méndez | Furia | Winner |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Acevedo | Clap When You Land | Finalist |
| 2020 | Nic Stone | Dear Justyce | Finalist |
| 2020 | Marieke Nijkamp | Even If We Break | Finalist |
| 2020 | Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam | Punching the Air | Finalist |
| 2020 | Nora Shalaway Carpenter | The Edge of Anything | Finalist |
| 2020 | Leah Johnson | You Should See Me in a Crown | Finalist |
| 2021 | Tess Sharpe | The Girls I've Been | Winner |
| 2021 | Laura Taylor Namey | A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow | Finalist |
| 2021 | Angie Thomas | Concrete Rose | Finalist |
| 2021 | Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper's Daughter | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jeff Zentner | In the Wild Light | Finalist |
| 2021 | Malinda Lo | Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Finalist |
| 2021 | Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal | Why We Fly | Finalist |
| 2022 | Jen Ferguson | The Summer of Bitter and Sweet | Winner |

### Graphic novel
#### Elementary and middle grade (2006–)

| Year | Contributors | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Jimmy Gownley | Amelia Rules! Vol. 3: Superheroes | Winner |
| 2006 | Alex De Campi, illus. by Federica Manfredi | Kat and Mouse | Finalists |
| 2006 | Jennifer Holm and Matt Holm | Babymouse: Beach Babe | Finalists |
| 2006 | Ann Martin and Raina Telgemeier, ilus. by Jimmy Gownley | The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy’s Great Idea | Finalists |
| 2006 | Siena Siegel, illus. by Mark Siegl | To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel | Finalists |
| 2007 | Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, illus. by Giovanni Rigano and Paolo Lamanna | Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel | Winner |
| 2007 | Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm | Camp Babymouse | Finalists |
| 2007 | Rod Espinosa | The Courageous Princess | Finalists |
| 2007 | Sara Varon | Robot Dreams | Finalists |
| 2007 | Kiyohiko Azuma, trans. by Amy Forsyth | Yotsuba&! Vol. 4 | Finalists |
| 2008 | Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illus. by Nathan Hale | Rapunzel's Revenge | Winner |
| 2008 | Hope Larson | Chiggers | Finalists |
| 2008 | Don Wood | Into the Volcano | Finalists |
| 2008 | Kean Soo | Jellaby, Vol. 1 | Finalists |
| 2008 | David Almond, illus. by Dave McKean | The Savage | Finalists |
| 2008 | Zoe Alley, illus. by R. W. Alley | There's a Wolf at the Door | Finalists |
| 2009 | Eleanor Davis | The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook | Winner |
| 2009 | James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost | Adventures in Cartooning | Finalist |
| 2009 | Aaron Reynolds, illus. by Neil Numberman | Creepy Crawly Crime | Finalist |
| 2009 | Eric Wight | Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom | Finalist |
| 2009 | Kazu Kibuishi | The Stonekeeper's Curse | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jason Shiga | Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3856 Story Possibilities | Winner |
| 2010 | George O'Connor | Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess | Finalist |
| 2010 | Colleen A. F. Venable, illus. by Stephanie Yue | Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye 1: Hamster and Cheese | Finalist |
| 2010 | Raina Telgemeier | Smile | Finalist |
| 2010 | Aaron Renier | The Unsinkable Walker Bean | Finalist |
| 2011 | Ben Hatke | Zita the Spacegirl | Winner |
| 2011 | Barry Deutsch | Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword | Finalist |
| 2011 | Chris Duffy (ed.) | Nursery Rhyme Comics | Finalist |
| 2011 | Dan Santat | Sidekicks | Finalist |
| 2011 | Brian Selznick | Wonderstruck | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jorge Aguirre, illus. by Rafael Rosado with John Novak and Matthew Schenk | Giants Beware! | Winner |
| 2012 | Joseph Lambert | Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller | Finalist |
| 2012 | Colleen A. F. Venable | Hilda and the Midnight Giant | Finalist |
| 2012 | Na Liu, illus. by Andrés Vera Martínez | Little White Duck: A Childhood in China | Finalist |
| 2012 | Nathan Hale | Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Big Bad Ironclad! | Finalist |
| 2013 | Barry Deutsch | Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite | Winner |
| 2013 | Matt Phelan | Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton | Finalist |
| 2013 | John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illus. by Nate Powell | March Book 1 | Finalist |
| 2013 | Rob Harrell | Monster on the Hill | Finalist |
| 2013 | Nathan Hale | Donner Dinner Party | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm | Squish: Game On! | Finalist |
| 2013 | Greg Ruth | The Lost Boy | Finalist |
| 2014 | Cece Bell, colored by David Lasky | El Deafo | Winner |
| 2014 | John Allison | Bad Machinery: The Case of the Good Boy | Finalist |
| 2014 | Blexbolex, trans. by Claudia Zoe Bedrick | Ballad | Finalist |
| 2014 | James Burks | Bird & Squirrel on Ice | Finalist |
| 2014 | Matt Faulkner | Gaijin: American Prisoner of War | Finalist |
| 2014 | Loic Dauvillier, illus. by Marc Lizano, inked by Greg Salsedo, and trans. by Alexis Siegel | Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jimmy Gownley | The Dumbest Idea Ever! | Finalist |
| 2015 | Victoria Jamieson | Roller Girl | Winner |
| 2015 | Marika McCoola, illus. by Emily Carroll | Baba Yaga's Assistant | Finalist |
| 2015 | Ted Naifeh | Tales of a Warlock | Finalist |
| 2015 | Jorge Aguirre, illus. by Rafael Rosado, colored by John Novak | Dragons Beware! | Finalist |
| 2015 | Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes | Secret Coders | Finalist |
| 2015 | Jennifer L. Holm, illus. by Matthew Holm, colored by Lark Pien | Sunny Side Up | Finalist |
| 2015 | Brian Selznick | The Marvels | Finalist |
| 2016 | Cathy Camper, illus. by Raúl the Third | Lowriders to the Center of the Earth | Winner |
| 2016 | Eric Orchard | Bera the One-Headed Troll | Finalist |
| 2016 | Hope Larson, illus. by Rebecca Mock | Compass South | Finalist |
| 2016 | Ben Hatke | Mighty Jack | Finalist |
| 2016 | Katie O'Neill | Princess Princess Ever After | Finalist |
| 2016 | Faith Erin Hicks, color by Jordie Bellaire | The Nameless City | Finalist |
| 2016 | William Grill | The Wolves of Currumpaw | Finalist |
| 2017 | Julie Kim | Where's Halmoni? | Winner |
| 2017 | Nidhi Chanani | Pashmina | Finalist |
| 2017 | Shannon Hale, illus. by LeUyen Pham, and colored by Jane Poole | Real Friends | Finalist |
| 2017 | Ginger Ly, illus. by Molly Park | Suee and the Shadow | Finalist |
| 2017 | Benjamin Renner | The Big Bad Fox | Finalist |
| 2017 | Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi | The Dam Keeper | Finalist |
| 2018 | Molly Knox Ostertag | The Witch Boy | Winner |
| 2018 | Mariah Marsden, illus. by Brenna Thummler | Anne of Green Gables | Finalist |
| 2018 | Vera Brosgol | Be Prepared | Finalist |
| 2018 | Samya Kullab, illus. by Jackie Roche | Escape from Syria | Finalist |
| 2018 | Aron Nels Steinke | Mr. Wolf's Class | Finalist |
| 2018 | Chad Sell | The Cardboard Kingdom | Finalist |
| 2018 | Katie O'Neill | The Tea Dragon Society | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jerry Craft | New Kid | Winner |
| 2019 | Svetlana Chmakova | Crush | Finalist |
| 2019 | Rey Terciero | Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kyo Maclear | Operatic | Finalist |
| 2019 | Molly Knox Ostertag | The Hidden Witch | Finalist |
| 2019 | Katie O'Neill | The Tea Dragon Festival | Finalist |
| 2019 | Emily Tetri | Tiger vs. Nightmare | Finalist |
| 2020 | Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, illus. by Victoria Jamieson and | When Stars Are Scattered | Winner |
| 2020 | James Otis Smith | Black Heroes of the Wild West | Finalists |
| 2020 | Jerry Craft, illus. by Jerry Craft | Class Act | Finalists |
| 2020 | Mika Song | Donut Feed the Squirrels | Finalists |
| 2020 | Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann | Go with the Flow | Finalists |
| 2020 | Kat Leyh | Snapdragon | Finalists |
| 2020 | Johan Troïanowski | The Runaway Princess | Finalists |
| 2021 | Lily LaMotte, illus. by Ann Xu | Measuring Up | Winner |
| 2021 | Thomas King, illus. by Natasha Donovan | Borders | Finalist |
| 2021 | Yehudi Mercado | Chunky | Finalist |
| 2021 | Katherine Battersby | Cranky Chicken | Finalist |
| 2021 | Nidhi Chanani | Jukebox | Finalist |
| 2021 | Hope Larson, illus. by Rebecca Mock | Salt Magic | Finalist |
| 2021 | Shing Yin Khor | The Legend of Auntie Po | Finalist |
| 2022 | Christina Diaz Gonzalez, illus. by Gabriela Epstein | Invisible: A Graphic Novel | Winner |
| 2022 | Kate Ashwin, Kel McDonald, and Alina Pete (eds.) | The Woman in the Woods | Finalist |
| 2022 | Jonathan Case | Little Monarchs | Finalist |
| 2022 | Guojing | The Flamingo | Finalist |
| 2022 | Marjorie Liu, illus. by Teny Assakhanian | Wingbearer | Finalist |
| 2022 | Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh | Squire | Finalist |

#### Young adult (2006–)

| Year | Contributor(s) | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Gene Luen Yang | American Born Chinese | Winner |
| 2006 | Linda Medley | Castle Waiting | Finalists |
| 2006 | Svetlana Chmakova | Dramacon, Vol. 2 | Finalists |
| 2006 | Kazu Kibuishi | Flight, Vol. 3 | Finalists |
| 2006 | Jessica Abel | La Perdida | Finalists |
| 2007 | Joann Sfar, illus. by Emmanuel Guibert | The Professor's Daughter | Winner |
| 2007 | Shaun Tan | The Arrival | Finalists |
| 2007 | Kazu Kibuishi (ed.) | Flight Vol. 4 | Finalists |
| 2007 | Nick Abadzis | Laika | Finalists |
| 2007 | Cecil Castellucci, illus. by Jim Rugg | The Plain Janes | Finalists |
| 2008 | Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Steve Rolston | Emiko Superstar | Winner |
| 2008 | Holly Black, illus. by Ted Naifeh | Kin | Finalists |
| 2008 | Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria, illus. by Warren Pleece | Life Sucks | Finalists |
| 2008 | Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Jillian Tamaki | Skim | Finalists |
| 2008 | Cyril Pedrosa, trans. by Edward Gauvin | Three Shadows | Finalists |
| 2009 | Tom Siddell | Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation | Winner |
| 2009 | Chris Schweizer | Crogan's Vengeance | Finalist |
| 2009 | Edgar Allan Poe, illus. by Gris Grimly | Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia | Finalist |
| 2009 | Tony Lee, illus. by Sam Hart and Artur Fujita | Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood | Finalist |
| 2009 | Lora Innes | The Dreamer: The Consequence of Nathan Hale, Part 1 | Finalist |
| 2010 | G. Neri, illus. by Randy DuBurke | Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty | Winner |
| 2010 | Doug TenNapel | Ghostopolis | Finalist |
| 2010 | Hope Larson | Mercury | Finalist |
| 2010 | Peter and Bobby Timony | Night Owls Vol. 1 | Finalist |
| 2010 | Kou Yaginuma, trans. by Maya Rosewood | Twin Spica, Vol. 1 | Finalist |
| 2011 | Vera Brosgol | Anya's Ghost | Winner |
| 2011 | Doug TenNapel | Bad Island | Finalist |
| 2011 | Jim Ottaviani, illus. by Leland Myrick | Feynman | Finalist |
| 2011 | Gene Luen Yang, art by Thien Pham | Level Up | Finalist |
| 2011 | Laura Lee Gulledge | Page by Paige | Finalist |
| 2012 | Faith Erin Hicks | Friends With Boys | Winner |
| 2012 | Lila Quintero Weaver | Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White | Finalist |
| 2012 | Raina Telgemeier | Drama | Finalist |
| 2012 | Ryan Inzana | Ichiro | Finalist |
| 2012 | Boaz Yakin, illus. by Joe Infurnari | Marathon | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jordan Mechner, illus. by LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland | Templar | Winner |
| 2013 | John Allison | Bad Machinery | Finalist |
| 2013 | Gene Luen Yang | Boxers & Saints | Finalist |
| 2013 | Kelly Sue Deconnick with Dexter Soy, illus. by Emma Ríos | Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: In Pursuit of Flight | Finalist |
| 2013 | Tony Cliff | Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant | Finalist |
| 2013 | Junji Ito | Uzumaki | Finalist |
| 2013 | Sharon McKay, illus. by Daniel LaFrance | War Brothers | Finalist |
| 2014 | Cory Doctorow, illus. by Jen Wang | In Real Life | Winner |
| 2014 | Joel Christian Gill | Strange Fruit, Vol. I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History | Finalist |
| 2014 | Max Brooks, illus. by Caanan White | The Harlem Hellfighters | Finalist |
| 2014 | Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew | The Shadow Hero | Finalist |
| 2014 | Emily Carroll | Through the Woods | Finalist |
| 2014 | Shane Koyczan | To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful | Finalist |
| 2015 | ND Stevenson | Nimona | Winner |
| 2015 | Maggie Thrash | Honor Girl | Finalist |
| 2015 | Christos Gage, Ruth Gage, and Jackie Lewis | Lion of Rora | Finalist |
| 2015 | John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illus. by Nate Powell | March: Book Two | Finalist |
| 2015 | G. Willow Wilson. art by Adrian Alphona | Ms. Marvel | Finalist |
| 2015 | Ben Towle | Oyster War | Finalist |
| 2015 | Henrik Rehr | Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I | Finalist |
| 2016 | John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illus. by Nate Powell | March: Book Three | Winner |
| 2016 | Özge Samancı | Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey | Finalist |
| 2016 | Jody Houser, art by Francis Portela and Marguerite Sauvage | Faith Vol. 1: Hollywood and Vine | Finalist |
| 2016 | Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota | Lucky Penny | Finalist |
| 2016 | Marjorie Liu, illus. by Sana Takeda | Monstress Vol. 1: Awakening | Finalist |
| 2016 | G. Willow Wilson. art by Adrian Alphona | Ms. Marvel Vol. 5: Super Famous | Finalist |
| 2016 | Derf Backderf | Trashed | Finalist |
| 2017 | Scott Westerfeld, illus. by Alex Puvilland | Spill Zone | Winner |
| 2017 | Kieron Moore, illus. by Rajesh Nagulakonda | Buddha: An Enlightened Life | Finalist |
| 2017 | Gene Luen Yang | New Super-Man Vol. 1: Made In China (Rebirth) | Finalist |
| 2017 | Cecil Castellucci, illus. by José Pimienta | Soupy Leaves Home | Finalist |
| 2017 | Tillie Walden | Spinning | Finalist |
| 2017 | Tyson Hesse | Diesel: Ignition | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jarrett J. Krosoczka | Hey, Kiddo | Winner |
| 2018 | Anne Frank, adapted by Ari Folman | Anne Frank's Diary | Finalist |
| 2018 | Melanie Gillman | As the Crow Flies | Finalist |
| 2018 | G. Neri, illus. by Corban Wilkin | Grand Theft Horse | Finalist |
| 2018 | Tillie Walden | On a Sunbeam | Finalist |
| 2018 | Sebastian Kadlecik (creator), Kit Steinkellner (writer), Emma Steinkellner (illus.), and Valeria Tranier (trans.) | Quince | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jen Wang | The Prince and the Dressmaker | Finalist |
| 2019 | David A. Robertson, Jen Storm, Katherena Vermette, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Richard Van Camp, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, and Sonny Assu | This Place: 150 Years Retold | Winner |
| 2019 | Vera Greentea and Yana Bogatch | Grimoire Noir | Finalist |
| 2019 | Colleen A. F. Venable, illus. by Ellen T. Crenshaw | Kiss Number 8 | Finalist |
| 2019 | Suzanne Walker, art by Wendy Xuwqqs | Mooncakes | Finalist |
| 2019 | Tasha Spillett | Surviving the City | Finalist |
| 2019 | George Takei | They Called Us Enemy | Finalist |
| 2020 | Gene Luen Yang, illus. by Gurihiru | Superman Smashes the Klan | Winner |
| 2020 | Robin Ha, illus. by Robin Ha | Almost American Girl | Finalist |
| 2020 | Tyler Feder | Dancing at the Pity Party | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kiku Hughes | Displacement | Finalist |
| 2020 | Mike Curato, illus. by Mike Curato | Flamer | Finalist |
| 2020 | Huda Fahmy | That Can Be Arranged | Finalist |
| 2020 | Alex Sanchez, illus. by Jul Maroh | You Brought Me the Ocean | Finalist |
| 2021 | Crystal Frasier, illus. by Val Wise and Oscar O. Jupiter (letterer) | Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms | Winner |
| 2021 | Alverne Ball, illus. by Stacey Robinson, Reynaldo Anderson, and Colette Yellow Robe | Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre | Finalist |
| 2021 | Don Brown | In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks | Finalist |
| 2021 | Marie-Noëlle Hébert, trans. by Shelley Tanaka | My Body in Pieces | Finalist |
| 2021 | Mark Crilley | My Last Summer with Cass | Finalist |
| 2021 | L. L. McKinney, illus. by Robyn Smith | Nubia: Real One | Finalist |
| 2021 | Molly Knox Ostertag | The Girl from the Sea | Finalist |
| 2022 | Laura Gao | Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American | Winner |

### Nonfiction
#### Picture books (2006–2012)

| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Dianna Aston, illus. by Sylvia Long | An Egg is Quiet | Winner |
| 2006 | Bob Raczka | 3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet | Finalists |
| 2006 | Meghan McCarthy | Aliens Are Coming! The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast | Finalists |
| 2006 | Lola M. Schaefer, illus. by Cathie Felstead | An Island Grows | Finalists |
| 2006 | Sandra Markle, illus. by Alan Marks | Little Lost Bat | Finalists |
| 2007 | Brian Floca | Lightship | Winner |
| 2007 | Lizann Flatt, illus. by Scot Ritchie | Let's Go! | Finalists |
| 2007 | Steve Jenkins | Living Color | Finalists |
| 2007 | Lita Judge | One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II | Finalists |
| 2007 | April Pulley Sayre, illus. by Scot Ritchie | Vulture View | Finalists |
| 2007 | David Schwartz and Yael Schy, photos by Dwight Kuhn | Where in the Wild? | Finalists |
| 2008 | Nic Bishop | Frogs | Winner |
| 2008 | Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet | A River of Words | Finalists |
| 2008 | Meghan McCarthy | Astronaut Handbook | Finalists |
| 2008 | Dennis Brindell Fradin, illus. by Larry Day | Duel! Burr and Hamilton's Deadly War of Words | Finalists |
| 2008 | Susan Stockdale | Fabulous Fishes | Finalists |
| 2008 | Deborah Kogan Ray | Wanda Gág: The Girl Who Lived to Draw | Finalists |
| 2008 | Jeanette Winter | Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa | Finalists |
| 2009 | Chris Barton, illus. by Tony Persiani | The Day-Glo Brothers | Winner |
| 2009 | Carmen Agra Deedy with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah, illus. by Thomas Gonzalez | 14 Cows for America | Finalist |
| 2009 | Steve Jenkins | Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea: | Finalist |
| 2009 | Maya Ajmera, Cynthia Pon, and Magda Nakassis | Faith | Finalist |
| 2009 | Kristin Earhart (ed.), photos by Teruyuki Komiya | Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual Size Animal Encyclopedia | Finalist |
| 2009 | Shana Corey, illus. by Edwin Fotheringham | Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way to Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History! | Finalist |
| 2009 | Brian Floca | Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 | Finalist |
| 2010 | Barbara Kerley, illus. by Edwin Fotheringham | The Extraordinary Life of Mark Twain (According to Susy) | Winner |
| 2010 | Steve Jenkins | Bones: Skeletons and How They Work | Finalist |
| 2010 | Deborah Kogan Ray | Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age | Finalist |
| 2010 | Matt Tavares | Henry Aaron's Dream | Finalist |
| 2010 | Meghan McCarthy | Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum | Finalist |
| 2010 | Andrea Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney | Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down | Finalist |
| 2010 | Roxane Orgill, illus. by Sean Qualls | Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald | Finalist |
| 2011 | Carlyn Beccia | I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures | Winner |
| 2011 | George Ella Lyon, illus. by Katherine Tillotson | All the Water in the World | Finalist |
| 2011 | Susan Stockdale | Bring On the Birds | Finalist |
| 2011 | Martin Jenkins, illus. by Vicky White | Can We Save the Tiger? | Finalist |
| 2011 | Kathryn O. Galbraith, illus. by Wendy Anderson Halperin | Planting the Wild Garden | Finalist |
| 2011 | Sandra Markle | The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs | Finalist |
| 2011 | Jim Arnosky | Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators | Finalist |
| 2012 | Alicia Potter, illus. by Melissa Sweet | Mrs Harkness and the Panda | Winner |
| 2012 | Melissa Sweet | Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade | Finalist |
| 2012 | Nicola Davies, illus. by Brita Granström | Dolphin Baby! | Finalist |
| 2012 | Janet Halfmann illus. by Betsy Thompson | Eggs 1, 2, 3: Who Will the Babies Be? | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jason Chin | Island: A Story of the Galápagos | Finalist |
| 2012 | Maira Kalman | Looking at Lincoln | Finalist |
| 2012 | Nic Bishop | Snakes | Finalist |

#### Juvenile (2016)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2016 | Melissa Sweet | Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White | Winner |
| 2016 | Charles Ghigna and Animal Planet | Animal Planet Strange, Unusual, Gross & Cool Animals | Finalists |
| 2016 | Lois Miner Huey | Floodwaters and Flames: The 1913 Disaster in Dayton, Ohio | Finalists |
| 2016 | Rebecca L. Johnson | Masters of Disguise: Amazing Animal Tricksters | Finalists |
| 2016 | Erin Hagar | The Inventors of LEGO Toys | Finalists |
| 2016 | April Pulley Sayre | The Slowest Book Ever | Finalists |
| 2016 | Jane Sutcliffe | Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk | Finalists |

#### Middle grade and young adult (2006–2012)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Russell Freedman | Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Winner |
| 2006 | Sid Fleischman | Escape! | Finalists |
| 2006 | Alan Wolf | Immersed in Verse | Finalists |
| 2006 | Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Boris Kulikov | Isaac Newton | Finalists |
| 2006 | Catherine Thimmesh | Team Moon | Finalists |
| 2007 | Ibtisam Barakat | Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood | Winner |
| 2007 | Kathleen Krull | Marie Curie | Finalists |
| 2007 | Adrian Dingle, illustrated by Simon Basher | The Periodic Table: Elements with Style! | Finalists |
| 2007 | Eve Drobot | Smart-Opedia | Finalists |
| 2007 | Loree Griffin Burns | Tracking Trash | Finalists |
| 2007 | Peter Sis | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Finalists |
| 2007 | Russell Freedman | Who Was First? | Finalists |
| 2008 | Cylin Busby and John Busby | The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir | Winner |
| 2008 | David Aguilar | 11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System | Finalists |
| 2008 | Scott Reynolds Nelson | Ain’t Nothing but a Man | Finalists |
| 2008 | Nancy Amanda Redd | Body Drama | Finalists |
| 2008 | Steve Sheinkin | King George: What Was His Problem? | Finalists |
| 2008 | Martin Sandler | Lincoln Through the Lens | Finalists |
| 2008 | Ben Boos | Swords: An Artist's Devotion | Finalists |
| 2008 | Kadir Nelson | We Are the Ship | Finalists |
| 2009 | Pamela S. Turner, illustrated by Andy Comins | The Frog Scientist | Winner |
| 2009 | Phillip Hoose | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Finalist |
| 2009 | Larry Smith | I Can't Keep My Own Secrets | Finalist |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Partridge | Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary | Finalist |
| 2009 | Sally M. Walker | Written in Bone | Finalist |
| 2010 | Suzanne Jurmain | The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing | Winner |
| 2010 | Paul B. Janeczko | The Dark Game: True Spy Stories | Finalist |
| 2010 | Loree Griffin Burns | The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe | Finalist |
| 2010 | Sy Montgomery | Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot | Finalist |
| 2010 | Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter | Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook | Finalist |
| 2010 | Haya Leah Molnar | Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania | Finalist |
| 2010 | Elaine Marie Alphin | An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank | Finalist |
| 2011 | Candace Fleming | Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart | Winner |
| 2011 | Georgia Bragg | How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous | Finalist |
| 2011 | Stewart Ross, illus. by Stephen Biesty | Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air | Finalist |
| 2011 | Carla Killough McClafferty | The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon | Finalist |
| 2011 | Steve Sheinkin | The Notorious Benedict Arnold | Finalist |
| 2011 | Ann Bausum | Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the Home Front During World War I | Finalist |
| 2012 | Steve Sheinkin | Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon | Winner |
| 2012 | Marsha Skrypuch | Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War | Finalist |
| 2012 | Phillip Hoose | Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 | Finalist |
| 2012 | Sy Montgomery | Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World | Finalist |
| 2012 | Deborah Hopkinson | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | Finalist |

#### Elementary and middle grade (2013–2015)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2013 | Annette LeBlanc Cate | Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard | Winner |
| 2013 | Vicky Alvear Shecter | Anubis Speaks! | Finalist |
| 2013 | Marissa Moss | Barbed Wire Baseball | Finalist |
| 2013 | Lita Judge | How Big Were Dinosaurs? | Finalist |
| 2013 | Brian Floca | Locomotive | Finalist |
| 2013 | Deborah Heiligman | The Boy Who Loved Math | Finalist |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Rusch, illustrated by Susan Swan | Volcano Rising | Finalist |
| 2014 | Melissa Stewart | Feathers: Not Just for Flying | Winner |
| 2014 | Russell Freedman | Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain | Finalist |
| 2014 | Sy Montgomery | Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat | Finalist |
| 2014 | Loree Griffin Burns | Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey | Finalist |
| 2014 | Duncan Tonatiuh | Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation | Finalist |
| 2014 | Sandra Markle | The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats | Finalist |
| 2014 | Rebecca L. Johnson | When Lunch Fights Back | Finalist |
| 2015 | Bridget Heos, illustrated by Jennifer Plecas | I, Fly: The Buzz About Flies and How Awesome They Are | Winner |
| 2015 | Laurie Ann Thompson | Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah | Finalist |
| 2015 | Gail Jarrow | Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary | Finalist |
| 2015 | Ben Thompson | Guts & Glory: The Vikings | Finalist |
| 2015 | David Stabler | Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents | Finalist |
| 2015 | Miranda Paul | One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia | Finalist |
| 2015 | Anita Silvey | Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall | Finalist |

#### Elementary (2016–)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2016 | Candace Fleming | Giant Squid | Winner |
| 2016 | Lindsay Mattick, illus. by Sophie Blackall | Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear | Finalist |
| 2016 | Jess Keating | Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals | Finalist |
| 2016 | Rebecca E. Hirsch, illus. by Mia Posada | Plants Can't Sit Still | Finalist |
| 2016 | Donna Janell Bowman, illus. by Daniel Minter | Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness | Finalist |
| 2016 | Susan E. Goodman, illus. by E. B. Lewis | The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial | Finalist |
| 2016 | Cathleen Burnham | Tortuga Squad: Kids Saving Sea Turtles in Costa Rica | Finalist |
| 2017 | Caroline Arnold | Hatching Chicks in Room 6 | Winner |
| 2017 | Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch with Tuan Ho, illustrated by Brian Deines | Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival | Finalist |
| 2017 | Duncan Tonatiuh | Danza!: Amalia Hernández and Mexico's Folkloric Ballet | Finalist |
| 2017 | Chris Barton, illus. by Victo Ngai | Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion | Finalist |
| 2017 | Laura Knowles | Once Upon a Jungle | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jess Keating, illus. by Marta Álvarez Miguéns | Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jess Keating | What Makes a Monster?: Discovering the World's Scariest Creatures | Finalist |
| 2018 | Patricia Valdez, illus. by Felicita Sala | Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor | Winner |
| 2018 | Irene Kelly | A Frog's Life | Finalist |
| 2018 | Joseph Bruchac, illus. by Liz Amini-Holmes | Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story | Finalist |
| 2018 | Michelle Cusolito, illus. by Nicole Wong | Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin | Finalist |
| 2018 | Thane Maynard | Saving Fiona: The Story of the World's Most Famous Baby Hippo | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anne Renaud, illus. by Marie Lafrance | The True Tale of a Giantess: The Story of Anna Swan | Finalist |
| 2018 | Chris Barton, illus. by Ekua Holmes | What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan | Finalist |
| 2019 | Miranda Paul, illus. by Jason Chin | Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born | Winner |
| 2019 | Linda Booth Sweeney, illus. by Shawn Fields | Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial | Finalist |
| 2019 | Isabel Thomas, illus. by Daniel Egnéus | Moth | Finalist |
| 2019 | Lindsay Moore | Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival | Finalist |
| 2019 | Melissa Stewart, illus. by Sarah S. Brannen | Seashells: More Than a Home | Finalist |
| 2019 | Barry Wittenstein, illus. by Keith Mallett | Sonny's Bridge: Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Finds His Groove | Finalist |
| 2019 | Susan Hood and Patthana Sornhiran, illus. by Dow Phumiruk | Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kate Messner and Adam Rex | The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America’s Presidents | Winner |
| 2020 | Linda Skeers, illus. by Marta Álvarez Miguéns | Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist | Finalist |
| 2020 | Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann | Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera | Finalist |
| 2020 | Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley (eds.), illus. by Jeanette Bradley | No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History | Finalist |
| 2020 | Rob Sanders, illus. by Nabi H. Ali | The Fighting Infantryman | Finalist |
| 2020 | Janet Halfmann, illus. by Duane Smith | The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls | Finalist |
| 2020 | Meeg Pincus, illus. by Yas Imamura | Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery | Finalist |
| 2021 | Megan Hoyt, illus. by Iacopo Bruno | Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero | Winner |
| 2021 | Laurie Wallmark, illus. by Brooke Smart | Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars | Finalist |
| 2021 | Kristen Nordstrom, illus. by Paul Boston | Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature | Finalist |
| 2021 | Julie Abery, illus. by Chris Sasaki | Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory | Finalist |
| 2021 | Kim Tomsic, illus. by Hadley Hooper | The Elephants Come Home: A True Story of Seven Elephants, Two People, and One Extraordinary Friendship | Finalist |
| 2021 | Heather Lang, illus. by Jana Christy | The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest | Finalist |
| 2021 | Traci Sorell, illus. by Frané Lessac | We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know | Finalist |
| 2022 | Matt Lilley, illus. by Dan Tavis | Good Eating: The Short Life of Krill | Winner |

#### Middle grade (2016–)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2016 | Caren Stelson | Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story | Winner |
| 2016 | Michael J. Tougias | A Storm Too Soon: A Remarkable True Survival Story in 80 Foot Seas | Finalist |
| 2016 | Gail Jarrow | Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America | Finalist |
| 2016 | Carlyn Cerniglia Beccia | Fashion Rebels: Style Icons Who Changed the World through Fashion | Finalist |
| 2016 | Deborah Noyes | Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly | Finalist |
| 2016 | Linda Barret Osborne | This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration | Finalist |
| 2016 | Russell Freedman | We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler | Finalist |
| 2017 | Ammi-Joan Paquette | Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive! | Winner |
| 2017 | Deborah Lee Rose | Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle | Finalist |
| 2017 | Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi, illus. by Yutaka Houlette | Fred Korematsu Speaks Up | Finalist |
| 2017 | Tod Olson | The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13 | Finalist |
| 2017 | Tonya Bolden | Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls | Finalist |
| 2017 | S. D. Nelson | Red Cloud | Finalist |
| 2017 | Patricia Newman | Zoo Scientists to the Rescue | Finalist |
| 2018 | Kelly Milner Halls | Death Eaters: Meet Nature's Scavengers | Winner |
| 2018 | Sarah Albee | Dog Days of History: The Incredible Story of Our Best Friends | Finalist |
| 2018 | Kathleen Krull | Frenemies in the Family: Famous Brothers and Sisters Who Butted Heads and Had Each Other's Backs | Finalist |
| 2018 | Susan Goldman Rubin | Maya Lin: Thinking with Her Hands | Finalist |
| 2018 | Sy Montgomery | The Hyena Scientist | Finalist |
| 2018 | Brian Skerry | The Ultimate Book of Sharks | Finalist |
| 2018 | Ammi-Joan Paquette | Two Truths and a Lie: Histories and Mysterie | Finalist |
| 2019 | Trevor Noah | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted) | Winner |
| 2019 | Peter Wohlleben | Can You Hear the Trees Talking?: Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest | Finalist |
| 2019 | Rex Ogle | Free Lunch | Finalist |
| 2019 | Alison Matthews David | Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History | Finalist |
| 2019 | Rachel Poliquin | Moles | Finalist |
| 2019 | Katherine Johnson | Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jo Ann Allen Boyce | This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality | Finalist |
| 2020 | Christina Soontornvat | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team | Winner |
| 2020 | John Rocco | How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure | Finalist |
| 2020 | Magdalena Newman and Nathaniel Newman, illus. by Neil Swaab | Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey | Finalist |
| 2020 | Ana Pego and Minhós Martins, illus. by Bernado P. Carvalho | Plasticus Maritimus: An Invasive Species | Finalist |
| 2020 | Meg Marquardt | STEM in the Final Four | Finalist |
| 2020 | Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (eds.) | The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth | Finalist |
| 2020 | Tanya Lloyd Kyi, illus. by Drew Shannon | This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science Is Tackling Unconscious Bias | Finalist |
| 2021 | Rochelle Melander, illus. by Melina Ontiveros | Mightier Than the Sword: Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries Who Changed the World Through Writing | Winner |
| 2021 | Traci Sorell, illus. by Natasha Donovan | Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer | Finalist |
| 2021 | Candace Fleming | The Curse of the Mummy: Uncovering Tutankhamun's Tomb | Finalist |
| 2021 | Eugene Yelchin | The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Finalist |
| 2021 | Philip Bunting | The World's Most Pointless Animals: Or are they? | Finalist |
| 2021 | Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Floyd Cooper | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | Finalist |
| 2021 | Yumi Stynes and Dr. Melissa Kang, illus. by Jenny Latham | Welcome to Your Period! | Finalist |
| 2022 | Angela Joy, illus. by Janelle Washington | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement | Winner |

#### Junior high (2017–)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2017 | Martin W. Sandler | The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found | Winner |
| 2017 | Sandra Neil Wallace | Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story | Finalist |
| 2017 | Mary Losure | Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd | Finalist |
| 2017 | Heather E. Schwartz | Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade | Finalist |
| 2017 | Sue Macy | Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century | Finalist |
| 2017 | Sarah Albee | Poison: Deadly Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines | Finalist |
| 2017 | Steve Sheinkin | Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team | Finalist |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Partridge | Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam | Winner |
| 2018 | Martin W. Sandler | Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed Everything | Finalist |
| 2018 | Patricia Sutton | Capsized!: The Forgotten Story of the SS Eastland Disaster | Finalist |
| 2018 | James L. Swanson | Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin | Finalist |
| 2018 | Tonya Bolden | Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man | Finalist |
| 2018 | Gail Jarrow | Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America | Finalist |
| 2018 | Sam Kean | The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements | Finalist |
| 2019 | Ian Lendler | The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth | Winner |
| 2019 | Martin W. Sandler | 1919 The Year That Changed America | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jeffrey Kluger | Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kerrie Logan Hollihan | Mummies Exposed!: Creepy and True #1 | Finalist |
| 2019 | Gayle E. Pitman | Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets | Finalist |
| 2019 | Gail Jarrow | The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in our Food and Drugs | Finalist |

#### Young adult (2013–2016)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2013 | Martin W. Sandler | Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II | Winner |
| 2013 | Vicky Alvear Shecter | Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays | Finalist |
| 2013 | Leon Leyson | The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List | Finalist |
| 2013 | Catherine Reef | The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne | Finalist |
| 2013 | James L. Swanson | "The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy | Finalist |
| 2014 | Candace Fleming | The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia | Winner |
| 2014 | Alexis Coe | Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis | Finalist |
| 2014 | Laurie Ann Thompson | Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters | Finalist |
| 2014 | Kuklin | Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out | Finalist |
| 2014 | Maya Van Wagenen | Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek | Finalist |
| 2014 | Don Mitchell | The Freedom Summer Murders | Finalist |
| 2014 | Steve Sheinkin | The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights | Finalist |
| 2015 | Steve Sheinkin | Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War | Winner |
| 2015 | Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long | Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist | Finalist |
| 2015 | Hopkinson | Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark | Finalist |
| 2015 | Kathy Lowinger | Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Former Slaves Took on the World | Finalist |
| 2015 | Martin Ganda | I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives | Finalist |
| 2015 | M. T. Anderson | Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad | Finalist |
| 2015 | Karen Blumenthal | Tommy: The Gun That Changed America | Finalist |
| 2016 | Sungju Lee | Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea | Winner |
| 2016 | Rich Wallace | Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights | Finalist |
| 2016 | Bridget Heos | Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA | Finalist |
| 2016 | Kenneth C. Davis | In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives | Finalist |
| 2016 | Winifred Conkling | Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World | Finalist |
| 2016 | Sarah Miller | The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century | Finalist |
| 2016 | Patricia McCormick | The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero | Finalist |

#### Senior high (2017–)

| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result |
| 2017 | Deborah Heiligman | Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers | Winner |
| 2017 | Deborah Kops | Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment | Finalists |
| 2017 | Sandra Uwiringiyimana | How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child | Finalists |
| 2017 | Sarah Prager | Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World | Finalists |
| 2017 | Ann Bausum | The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power | Finalists |
| 2017 | Albert Marrin | Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II | Finalists |
| 2017 | Kay Frydenborg | A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human | Finalists |
| 2018 | John Hendrix | The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler | Winner |
| 2018 | Karen Blumenthal | Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bryan Stevenson | Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) | Finalist |
| 2018 | Neal Bascomb | The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century | Finalist |
| 2018 | Winifred Conkling | Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot | Finalist |
| 2018 | Carol Anderson | We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide | Finalist |
| 2018 | Parkland Student Journalists | We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists | Finalist |
| 2019 | James Rhodes, illus. by Martin O’Neill | Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound | Winner |
| 2019 | Elizabeth Wein | A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II | Finalist |
| 2019 | Sam Quinones | Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (YA edition) | Finalist |
| 2019 | Carol Anderson | One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (YA edition) | Finalist |
| 2019 | Deborah Heiligman | Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship" | Finalist |
| 2020 | Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi | Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Winner |
| 2020 | George M. Johnson | All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto | Finalist |
| 2020 | Karen Blumenthal | Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights | Finalist |
| 2020 | Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, illus. by Laura L. Sullivan | The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kate Moore | The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition | Finalist |
| 2020 | Robyn Ryle | Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports | Finalist |
| 2020 | Ger Duany and Garen Thomas | Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Ambassador of Peace | Finalist |
| 2021 | Rex Ogle | Punching Bag | Winner |
| 2021 | Anton Treuer | Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition | Finalist |
| 2021 | Amy Cherrix | In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race | Finalist |
| 2021 | Christian Allaire | The Power of Style | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by Brandy Colbert and Jeanne Theoharis | The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Adapted for Young People | Finalist |
| 2022 | Amy Butler Greenfield | The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life | Winner |

### Novels in verse (2022–)

| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result | Ref. |
| 2022 | Diana Farid, illus. by Kris Goto | Wave | Winner | |

### Poetry (2006–)

| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result | Ref. |
| 2006 | Joyce Sidman, illus. by Beth Krommes | Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow | Winner | |
| 2006 | Adam Rex | Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich | Finalists | |
| 2006 | Douglas Florian | Handsprings | Finalists | |
| 2006 | Walter Dean Myers, illus. by Christopher Myers | Jazz | Finalists | |
| 2006 | Diane Siebert, illus. by Stephen T. Johnson | Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art | Finalists | |
| 2007 | Joyce Sidman, illus. by Pamela Zagarenski | This is Just to Say | Winner | |
| 2007 | Valerie Worth, illus. by Steve Jenkins | Animal Poems | Finalists | |
| 2007 | Laura Amy Schlitz, illus. by Robert Byrd | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! | Finalists | |
| 2007 | Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters (eds.), illus. by Polly Dunbar | Here's a Little Poem | Finalists | |
| 2007 | Kate Miller | Poems in Black and White | Finalists | |
| 2007 | Janet S. Wong, illus. by Julie Paschkis | Twist: Yoga Poems | Finalists | |
| 2007 | Stephanie Hemphill | Your Own, Sylvia | Finalists | |
| 2008 | Naomi Shihab Nye | Honeybee: poems | Winner | |
| 2008 | Lee Bennett Hopkins (ed.), illus. by Stephen Alcorn | America at War | Finalists | |
| 2008 | Julie Larios, illus. by Julie Paschkis | Imaginary Menagerie | Finalists | |
| 2008 | Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf | More than Friends | Finalists | |
| 2008 | David Elliott and Holly Meade | On the Farm | Finalists | |
| 2009 | Joyce Sidman, illus. by Pamela Zagarenski | Red Sings from Treetops | Winner | |
| 2009 | Avis Harley | African Acrostics | Finalist | |
| 2009 | Bill Martin Jr. | The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry | Finalist | |
| 2009 | Bobbi Katz | The Monsterologist | Finalist | |
| 2009 | Mary Ann Hoberman and Linda Winston | The Tree That Time Built | Finalist | |
| 2010 | Marilyn Singer, illus. by Maggi Idzikowski | Mirror Mirror | Winner | |
| 2010 | Jeannine Atkins | Borrowed Names | Finalist | |
| 2010 | Joyce Sidman | Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night | Finalist | |
| 2010 | Jessica Swaim | Scarum Fair | Finalist | |
| 2010 | Lee Bennett Hopkins (ed.) | Sharing the Seasons: A Book of Poems | Finalist | |
| 2010 | Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters | Switching on the Moon | Finalist | |
| 2010 | Joyce Sidman | Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors | Finalist | |
| 2011 | Paul B. Janeczko | Requiem | Winner | |
| 2011 | Tracie Vaughn Zimmer | Cousins of Clouds: Elephant Poems | Finalist | |
| 2011 | Mordicai Gerstein | Dear Hot Dog | Finalist | |
| 2011 | Kristine O'Connell George | Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems | Finalist | |
| 2011 | J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen | Self-Portrait With Seven Fingers | Finalist | |
| 2011 | Walter Dean Myers | We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart | Finalist | |
| 2012 | Laura Purdie Salas, illus. by Josée Bisaillon | BookSpeak! Poems About Books | Winner | |
| 2012 | David Elliott | In the Sea | Finalist | |
| 2012 | J. Patrick Lewis | Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs | Finalist | |
| 2012 | Ron Koertge | Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses | Finalist | |
| 2012 | National Geographic | National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry | Finalist | |
| 2012 | Douglas Florian | UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings | Finalist | |
| 2012 | Kate Coombs | Water Sings Blue | Finalist | |
| 2013 | Amy Ludwig VanDerwater | Forest Has a Song | Winner | |
| 2013 | Singer | Follow Follow | Finalist | |
| 2013 | Caroline Kennedy | Poems to Learn by Heart | Finalist | |
| 2013 | Valerie Worth | Pug: And Other Animal Poems | Finalist | |
| 2013 | Lisa Wheeler | The Pet Project | Finalist | |
| 2013 | Joyce Sidman | What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings | Finalist | |
| 2013 | J. Patrick Lewis | When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders | Finalist | |
| 2014 | J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon | Voices from the March on Washington | Winner | |
| 2014 | Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming | Finalist | |
| 2014 | Irene Latham | Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole | Finalist | |
| 2014 | Janeczko | Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems | Finalist | |
| 2014 | Jon J Muth | Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons | Finalist | |
| 2014 | Bob Raczka | Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole | Finalist | |
| 2014 | Pat Mora | Water Rolls, Water Rises: El agua rueda, el agua sube | Finalist | |
| 2015 | Paschkis | Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales | Winner | |
| 2015 | Marilyn Hilton | Full Cicada Moon | Finalist | |
| 2015 | K. A. Holt | House Arrest | Finalist | |
| 2015 | J. Patrick Lewis | National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom! | Finalist | |
| 2015 | Meg Wiviott | Paper Hearts | Finalist | |
| 2015 | Deborah Ruddell | The Popcorn Astronauts: And Other Biteable Rhymes | Finalist | |
| 2015 | Joyce Sidman | Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold | Finalist | |
| 2016 | Laura Shovan | The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary | Winner | |
| 2016 | Alexander | Booked | Finalist | |
| 2016 | Irene Latham | Fresh Delicious | Finalist | |
| 2016 | Grimes | Garvey's Choice | Finalist | |
| 2016 | Deanna Caswell | Guess Who, Haiku | Finalist | |
| 2016 | Skila Brown | To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party | Finalist | |
| 2016 | Julie Fogliano | When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons | Finalist | |
| 2017 | Chris Harris | I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups | Winner | |
| 2017 | David Elliott | Bull | Finalist | |
| 2017 | Schaub | Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers' Market | Finalist | |
| 2017 | J. Patrick Lewis | Keep a Pocket in Your Poem: Classic Poems and Playful Parodies | Finalist | |
| 2017 | Margarita Engle | Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote | Finalist | |
| 2017 | Nikki Grimes | One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance | Finalist | |
| 2017 | Kwame Alexander | Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets | Finalist | |
| 2018 | Jason Reynolds | Long Way Down | Winner | |
| 2018 | Irene Latham and Charles Waters, illus. by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko | Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship | Finalist | |
| 2018 | Sydell Rosenberg | H Is For Haiku: A Treasury of Haiku from A to Z | Finalist | |
| 2018 | David Elliott | In the Past: From Trilobites to Dinosaurs to Mammoths in More Than 500 Million Years | Finalist | |
| 2018 | Lita Judge | Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein | Finalist | |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X | Finalist | |
| 2018 | | Traveling the Blue Road: Poems of the Sea | Finalist | |
| 2019 | Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond (eds.) | Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience | Winner | |
| 2019 | Margarita Engle | Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems | Finalist | |
| 2019 | Nikki Grimes | Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir | Finalist | |
| 2019 | Jasmine Warga | Other Words for Home | Finalist | |
| 2019 | Laurie Halse Anderson | SHOUT | Finalist | |
| 2019 | Elizabeth Steinglass | Soccerverse: Poems about Soccer | Finalist | |
| 2019 | Paul B. Janeczko | The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems | Finalist | |
| 2020 | No award was presented in 2020 | No award was presented in 2020 | No award was presented in 2020 | No award was presented in 2020 |
| 2021 | Joanne Rossmassler Fritz | Everywhere Blue | Winner | |
| 2021 | Colby Cedar Smith | Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit | Finalist | |
| 2021 | Amber McBride | Me (Moth) | Finalist | |
| 2021 | Rajani LaRocca | Red, White, and Whole | Finalist | |
| 2021 | Kirsten Hall, illus. by Jenni Desmond | Snow Birds | Finalist | |
| 2021 | Lisa Fipps | Starfish | Finalist | |
| 2021 | Diana Whitney (ed.) | You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves | Finalist | |
| 2022 | Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson, illus. by Nikkolas Smith | The 1619 Project: Born on the Water | Winner | |