| Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | 2021 - Honor |
| How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure | 2021 - Honor |
| All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | 2021 - Honor |
| Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera | 2021 - Winner |
| All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World | 2020 - Honor |
| Hey, Water! | 2020 - Honor |
| Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir | 2020 - Honor |
| This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality | 2020 - Honor |
| Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story | 2020 - Winner |
| Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild | Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild | 2019 - Honor |
| The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science | The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science | 2019 - Winner |
| Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America | Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America | 2019 - Honor |
| The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees | The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees | 2019 - Honor |
| We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga | We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga | 2019 - Honor |
| When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana | When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana | 2019 - Honor |
| Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem | Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem | 2018 - Honor |
| Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability | Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability | 2018 - Honor |
| Grand Canyon | Grand Canyon | 2018 - Honor |
| Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix | Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix | 2018 - Honor |
| Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 | Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 | 2018 - Winner |
| We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler | We Will Not Be Silent | 2017 - Honor |
| Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II | Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II | 2017 - Honor |
| Giant Squid | Giant Squid | 2017 - Honor |
| Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story | Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story | 2017 - Honor |
| March: Book Three | March: Book Three | 2017 - Winner |
| Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | 2016 - Honor |
| Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras | Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras | 2016 - Winner |
| Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | 2016 - Honor |
| The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club | 2016 - Honor |
| Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March | 2016 - Honor |
| Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation | Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation | 2015 - Honor |
| Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands | Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands | 2015 - Honor |
| Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker | Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker | 2015 - Honor |
| The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia | The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia | 2015 - Honor |
| Brown Girl Dreaming | Brown Girl Dreaming | 2015 - Honor |
| The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus | The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus | 2015 - Winner |
| Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard | Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard | 2014 - Honor |
| Parrots over Puerto Rico | Parrots over Puerto Rico | 2014 - Winner |
| A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin | A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin | 2014 - Honor |
| Locomotive | Locomotive | 2014 - Honor |
| The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius | The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius | 2014 - Honor |
| Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | 2013 - Honor |
| Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 | Moonbird | 2013 - Honor |
| Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin | Electric Ben | 2013 - Honor |
| Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon | Bomb: The Race to Build | 2013 - Winner |
| Sweet, Melissa | Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade | 2012 - Winner |
| Schanzer, Rosalyn | Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem | 2012 - Honor |
| Rodwell, Timothy | The Elephant Scientist | 2012 - Honor |
| Jackson, Donna M. | The Elephant Scientist | 2012 - Honor |
| O'Connell, Caitlin | The Elephant Scientist | 2012 - Honor |
| O'Connell, Caitlin | The Elephant Scientist | 2012 - Honor |
| Say, Allen | Drawing from Memory | 2012 - Honor |
| Brimner, Larry Dane | Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene 'Bull' Connor | 2012 - Honor |
| Freedman, Russell | Lafayette and the American Revolution | 2011 - Honor |
| Jordan, Sandra | Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring | 2011 - Honor |
| Floca, Brian | Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring | 2011 - Honor |
| Greenberg, Jan | Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring | 2011 - Honor |
| Bishop, Nic | Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot | 2011 - Winner |
| Montgomery, Sy | Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot | 2011 - Winner |
| Hoose, Phillip | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | 2010 - Honor |
| Floca, Brian | Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 | 2010 - Honor |
| Barton, Chris | The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors | 2010 - Honor |
| Persiani, Tony | The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors | 2010 - Honor |
| Stone, Tanya Lee | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | 2010 - Winner |
| Deem, James M. | Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past | 2009 - Honor |
| Kerley, Barbara | What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Fathe | 2009 - Honor |
| Fotheringham, Edwin | What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Fathe | 2009 - Honor |
| Nelson, Kadir | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | 2009 - Winner |
| Sis, Peter | The Wall: Growing Up behind the Iron Curtain | 2008 - Winner |
| Floca, Brian | Lightship | 2008 - Honor |
| Bishop, Nic | Nic Bishop Spiders | 2008 - Honor |
| Siegel, Siena Cherson | To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel | 2007 - Honor |
| Thimmesh, Catherine | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon | 2007 - Winner |
| Bausum, Ann | Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement | 2007 - Honor |
| Montgomery, Sy | Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea | 2007 - Honor |
| Bishop, Nic | Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea | 2007 - Honor |
| Siegel, Mark | To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel | 2007 - Honor |
| Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | 2006 - Honor |
| Walker, Sally M. | Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley | 2006 - Winner |
| Selznick, Brian | Walt Whitman: Words for America | 2005 - Honor |
| Kerley, Barbara | Walt Whitman: Words for America | 2005 - Honor |
| Montgomery, Sy | The Tarantula Scientist | 2005 - Honor |
| Bishop, Nic | The Tarantula Scientist | 2005 - Honor |
| Rumford, James | Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | 2005 - Honor |
| Freedman, Russell | The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights | 2005 - Winner |
| Huckaby, Anna Sixkiller | Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | 2005 - Honor |
| Gorton, Julia | I Face the Wind | 2004 - Honor |
| Cobb, Vicki | I Face the Wind | 2004 - Honor |
| Murphy, Jim | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | 2004 - Winner |
| Gantos, Jack | Hole in My Life | 2003 - Honor |
| Blumenthal, Karen | Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | 2003 - Honor |
| Parker, Robert Andrew | Action Jackson | 2003 - Honor |
| Greenberg, Jan | Action Jackson | 2003 - Honor |
| Jordan, Sandra | Action Jackson | 2003 - Honor |
| Selznick, Brian | When Marian Sang | 2003 - Honor |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz | When Marian Sang | 2003 - Honor |
| Giblin, James Cross | The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler | 2003 - Winner |
| Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 | 2002 - Winner |
| Warren, Andrea | Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | 2002 - Honor |
| Greenberg, Jan | Vincent van Gogh | 2002 - Honor |
| Jordan, Sandra | Vincent van Gogh | 2002 - Honor |
| Curlee, Lynn | Brooklyn Bridge | 2002 - Honor |
| Webb, Sophie | My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal | 2001 - Honor |
| Winick, Judd | Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned | 2001 - Honor |
| Petricic, Dusan | The Longitude Prize | 2001 - Honor |
| Aronson, Marc | Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado | 2001 - Winner |
| Murphy, Jim | Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America | 2001 - Honor |
| Dash, Joan | The Longitude Prize | 2001 - Honor |
