2010 Nominees

All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn

A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs

Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George

Elephant Run by Roland Smith

Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis

First Light by Rebecca Stead

Freedom Walkers : The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman

Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wend Mass

Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent

The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo

The Naked Mole-Rat Letters by Mary Amato

Shark Girl by by Kelly L. Bingham

Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell

A Small White Scar by K.A. Nazum

Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf

The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John

2009 Nominees

• Alabama Moon by Watt Key
• Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
• Black Storm Comin’ by Diane Lee Wilson
• Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone
• Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M.M. Blume
• A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama by Laura Amy Schlitz
• Gossamer by Lois Lowry
• The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• Heat by Mike Lupica
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Letters From Wolfie by Patti Sherlock
• Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People by Albert Marrin
• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
• Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
• Rules by Cynthia Lord
• shug by Jenny Han
• Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver