Atkin, S. Beth; Voices from the Streets: Young Former Gang Members Tell Their Stories; Little, Brown
Avi; Beyond the Western Sea, Book One. The Escape from Home; Orchard Books
Barron, T.A.; Lost Years of Merlin; Philomel
Berry, Liz; The China Garden; Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Blum, Joshua & Bob Holman & Mark Pellington; The United States of Poetry; Harry N. Abrams
Bode, Janet & Stan Mack; Hard Time: A Real Life Look at Juvenile Crime; Delacorte Press
Card, Orson Scott; Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus; Tor Books
Cart, Michael; My Father's Scar; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Chambers, Veronica; Mama's Girl; Riverhead Books
Coles, Jr., William; Another Kind of Monday; Atheneum
Conly, Jane Leslie; Trout Summer; Henry Holt
Cooney, Caroline B.; The Voice on the Radio; Delacorte Press
Dash, Joan; We Shall Not Be Moved; Scholastic Press
Denenberg, Barry; An American Hero: The True Story of Charles A. Lindbergh; Scholastic Press
Dessen, Sarah; That Summer; Orchard Books
DeVries, Anke; Bruises; Front Street
Farmer, Nancy; A Girl Named Disaster; Orchard Books
Fleischman, Paul; Dateline: Troy; Candlewick Press
Fleischman, Sid; The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life; Greenwillow Books
Freedman, Russell; The Life and Death of Crazy Horse; Holiday House
Freeman, Suzanne; Cuckoo's Child; Greenwillow Books
Gilstrap, John; Nathan's Run; HarperCollins
Glenn, Mel; Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems; Lodestar Books
Gould, Steven; Wildside; Tor Books
Haddix, Margaret Peterson; Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Haddix, Margaret Peterson; Running Out of Time; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Hanauer, Cathi; My Sister's Bones; Delacorte Press
Hautman, Pete; Mr. Was; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Hesse, Karen; The Music of Dolphins; Scholastic Press
Hobbs, Will; Far North; Morrow Junior Books
Huth, Angela; Land Girls; St. Martin's
Ingold, Jeanette; The Window; Harcourt Brace
Keillor, Garrison and Jenny Lind Nilson; The Sandy Bottom Orchestra; Hyperion
Klass, David; Danger Zone; Scholastic Press
Kozol, Jonathan; Amazing Grace; Crown
Krakauer, Jon; Into the Wild; Villard
Lane, Dakota; Johnny Voodoo; Delacorte Press
Levy, Marilyn; Run for Your Life; Houghton Mifflin
Macy, Sue; Winning Ways: A Photohistory of American Women in Sports; Henry Holt
Matas, Carol; After the War; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
McKissack, Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack; Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts; Scholastic Press
Mead, Alice, Adem's Cross; Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Meyer, Carolyn; Gideon's People; Harcourt Brace
Myers, Walter Dean; One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album; Harcourt Brace
Myers, Walter Dean, Slam!; Scholastic Press
Napoli, Donna Jo; Song of the Magdalene; Scholastic Press
Nix, Garth; Sabriel; HarperCollins
Nye, Naomi Shihab & Paul Janeczko; I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Paschen, Elise & Molly Peacock & Neil Neches (editors); Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from the Subways and Buses; W. W. Norton
Patterson, Katherine; Jip, His Story; Lodestar Books
Paulsen, Gary; Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs; Harcourt Brace
Pausewang, Gudrun; The Final Journey; Viking
Pennebaker, Ruth; Don't Think Twice; Henry Holt
Pullman, Philip; The Golden Compass; Alfred A. Knopf
Rinaldi, Ann; Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley; Harcourt Brace
Salzman, Mark; Lost in Place; Random House
Savage, Candace; Cowgirls; Ten Speed Press
Schmidt, Gary D.; The Sin Eater; Lodestar Books
Shevelev, Raphael & Karine Schomer; Liberating the Ghosts: Photographs and Text from the March of the Living; LensWork Publishing
Southgate, Martha; Another Way to Dance; Delacorte Press
Spinelli, Jerry; Crash; Alfred A. Knopf
Staples, Suzanne Fisher; Dangerous Skies; Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Frances Foster Books
Thesman, Jean; The Ornament Tree; Houghton, Mifflin
Thomas, Rob; Rats Saw God; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Turner, Megan Whalen; The Thief; Greenwillow Books
Wallace, Rich; Wrestling Sturbridge; Alfred A. Knopf
Welter, John; I Want to Buy a Vowel; Algonquin
Westall, Robert; Gulf; Scholastic Press
White, Ruth; Belle Prater's Boy; Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Wilkomirski, Binjamin; Fragments; Schocken Books