| 2006 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- (Winner) Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
- Blue Fingers by Cheryl Aylward Whitesel
- Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) by Michelle Paver
- Naked Mole Rat Letters by Mary Amato
- Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
- Ruins of Gorlan:Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan
- Golden and Grey by Louise Arnold
- Seven Wonders of Sassafrass Springs by Betty Birney
- Forging the Blade by R.L. LaFevers
- Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going
- Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo
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| 2005 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- (Winner) Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
- Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet
- Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia by Barbara O'Connor
- Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
- Ida B...and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
- Measle and Wrathmonk by Ian Ogilvy
- Niagra Falls, or Does it? Hank Zipper #1 by Henry Winkler
- The Postman Always Bring Mice by Holm & Hammel
- Ruby Lu, Brave and True by Lenore Look
- The World According to Humphrey by Betty Birney
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| 2004 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- (Winner) City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
- The Field Guide (Spiderwick Chronicles #1) by Tony DiTerlizzi
- Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
- Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
- Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
- Inkheart by Corneila Funke
- Maggie's Door by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo
- Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by George Byng
- One Eyed Giant: Tales of the Odyssey #1 by Mary Pope Osborne
- Rodzina by Karen Cushman
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| 2003 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Beany and the Dreaded Wedding by Susan Wojciechowski
- Frankenbug by Steven Cousins
- Gold Dust by Chris Lynch
- Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves by Carol Hughes
- Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
- Last Lobo by Roland Smith
- Love Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles
- School Story by Andrew Clements
- Silent Thunder by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Trial by Journal by Kate Klise
- (Winner) Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
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| 2002 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Adaline Falling Star by Mary Pope Osborne
- Alida's Son by Gary Paulsen
- Alien for Rent by Betsy Duffey
- Cinderellis and the Glass Hill by Gail Carson Levine
- Janitor's Boy by Andrew Clements
- (Winner) Midnight Magic by Avi
- My Brother Made Me Do It by Peg Kehret
- Song of the Wanderer by Bruce Coville
- Surviving Brick Johnson by Laurie Myers
- Water Horse by Dick King-Smith
- Word Eater by Mary Amato
- Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
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| 2001 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Choosing Up Sides by John Rifter
- Eye of the Great Bear by Bill Wallace
- I'm Not Who You Think I Am by Peg Kehret
- Kidnappers: A Mystery by Willo Davis Roberts
- Nowhere to Call Home by Cynthia DeFelice
- Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm
- Perloo the Bold by Avi
- Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen
- Sasquatch by Roland Smith
- (Winner) Secret of Platform 13 by Eva lbbotson
- Well Wished by Fran Billingsley
- When the Soldiers Were Gone by Vera Propp
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| 2000 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Among the Hidden by Margaret P. Haddix
- Bandit's Moon by Sid Fleischman
- Can You Keep a Secret by P.J. Peterson
- (Winner) Frindle by Andrew Clements
- The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Honus and Me by Dan Gutman
- In Care of Cassie Tucker by Ivy Ruckman
- Poppy by Avi
- School Spirits by Michael O. Tunnell
- Search for the Shadowman by Joan Lowery Nixon
- Smart Dog by Vivian Van de Velde
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| 1999 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman
- The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo
- (Winner) Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Levine
- Flea Circus Summer by Cheryl Ware
- The Last Man's Reward by David Patneaude
- Lone Wolf by Kristine L. Franklin
- The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse
- The Stray by Dick King-Smith
- The Summer of the Bonepile Monster by Aileen Henderson
- Thunder Cave by Roland Smith
- When the Circus Came to Town by Polly Horvath
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| 1998 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- The 13th Floor Ghost by Sid Fleischman
- Defenders of the Universe by D.V. Kelleher
- Dragonslayers by Bruce Coville
- Kokopelli's Flute by Will Hobbs
- Later, Gator by Laurence Yep
- Mr. Lincoln's Drummer by G. Clifton Wisler
- My Name is Brain/Brian by Jeanne Betancourt
- Private Notebook of Katie Roberts, Age 11 by Amy Hest
- Running Out of Time by Margaret Haddix
- (Winner) Someone Was Watching by David Patneaude
- Tornado by Doron and Betsy Cromer Byars Ben-Ami
- You're Dead, David Borelli by Susan M. Brown
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| 1997 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Backyard Dragon by Samuel Sterman
- Cat Running by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- There's an Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George
- The Fear Place by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Fig Pudding by Ralph Fletcher
- Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns by Mary Quattlebaun
- Silent Storm by Sherry Garland
- Tarantula Shoes by Tom Birdseye
- Titanic Crossing by Barbara Williams
- The Twin in the Tavern by Barbara Brooks Wallace
- (Winner) Watchdog and the Coyotes by Bill Wallace
- The Well by Mildred D. Taylor
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| 1996 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon by Paula Danziger
- Bigger by Patricia Calvert
- Cannibals of Sunset Drive by Dan K. Carlsruh
- Crossroads by Paul Pitts
- Just Call Me Stupid by Tom Birdseye
- Over the Joshua Slope by Lyman Hafen
- Scooter by Vera B. Williams
- Shiniest Rock of All by Nancy R. Patterson
- Stardust by Alane Ferguson
- Terror at the Zoo by Peg Kehret
- (Winner) Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn
- Why Me? by Deborah Kent
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| 1995 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- 213 Valentines by Barbara Cohen
- Adventures of King Midas by Lynn Reid Banks
- Attaboy, Sam by Lois Lowry
- Boggart by Susan Cooper
- Boys Start the War by Phyllis Naylor
- Cages by Peg Kehret
- Chocolate Covered Ants by Stephen Manes
- Devil's Bridge by Cynthia DeFelice
- (Winner) Ghosts of Mercy Manor by Betty Ren Wright
- Hannah by Gloria Whelan
- Invisible Dog by Dick King-Smith
- Jacob's Bridge by Malka Drucker
- Little House on Rocky Ridge by Roger Lea MacBride
- Maria by Theodore Taylor
- Morning Glory War by Judy Glassman
- Orp Goes to the Hoop by Suzy Kline
- Stuttgart Nanny Mafia by Susan Fletcher
- Uptime Downtime by John Peel
- Windcatcher by Avi
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| 1994 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Away is a Strange Place to Be by H.M. Hoover
- Coaching Mrs. Parker by Carla Heyumsfeld
- Finding Buck McHenry by Alfred Slote
- Flawed Glass by Ian Strachan
- (Winner) Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
- Journey by Patricia MacLachlan
- Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieska
- Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
- Little Brother by Allen Baille
- The Night the Bells Rang by N. Kinsey-Warnock
- Nightmare Mountain by Peg Kehret
- The Practical Joke War by Alane Ferguson
- Shadowman's Way by Paul Pitts
- Shoebag by Mary James
- Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
- Words of Stone by Kevin Henkes
- Yang the Youngest & His Terrible Ear by Lensey Namieka
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| 1993 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
- (Winner) Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn
- Dynamite Dinah by Claudia Mills
- Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume
- Ghost Cadet by Elaine Alphin
- Glass Slippers Give You Blisters by Mary Jane Auch
- Go Fish by Mary Stolz
- Have a Happy... by Mildred Pitts Walter
- Higbee's Halloween by Robert Newton Peck
- Hugh Glass, Mountain Man by Robert McClung
- It's Not Easy Being George by Janice Lee Smith
- Mali Sam and the Moon Queen by Alison C. & Jane Lawrence Herzig
- My Grandmother's Stories by Adele Geras
- Our Sixth Grade Sugar Babies by Eve Bunting
- Stepbrother Sabotage by Sally Wittman
- Strider by Beverly Cleary
- Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice
- Year of the Panda by Miriam Schlein
- Your Move, J. P.! by Lois Lowry
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| 1992 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- (Winner) A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
- Baseball in April by Gary Soto
- Bobby Baseball by Robert K. Smith
- The Boy who Owned the School by Gary Paulsen
- The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown by Betsy Byar
- Canada Geese Quilt by Nat Kinsey-Warnock
- Cricket and the Cracker Box Kid by Alaine Ferguson
- Dangerous Ground by Gloria Skurzynski
- Eddie's Blue Winged Dragon by C.S. Adler
- Fastest Friend in the West by Vicky Grove
- Friendship and the Gold Cadillac by Mildred Taylor
- High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roar by Nancy Willard
- Martin's Mice by Dick King-Smith
- Megan's Island by Willo D. Roberts
- Monster Garden by Vivian Alcock
- Muggy Maggie by Beverly Cleary
- My Name is not Angelica by Scott O'Dell
- Stargone John by Ellen McKenzie
- Vision Quest by Pamela Service
- Who Invited the Undertaker? by Ivy Ruckman
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| 1991 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- All About Sam by Lois Lowry
- Broccoli Tapes by Jan Slepian
- Catwings by Ursula LeGuin
- Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
- Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks
- Family Pose (pb. Family Picture) by Dean Hughes
- Flame-Colored Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff
- Handful of Time by Kit Pearson
- Hey, World, Here I Am by Jean Little
- Hugh Pine and the Good Place by J. Van de Wettering
- Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana W Jones
- (Winner) Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Me, Mop and the Moondance Kid by Walter D. Myers
- Most Beautiful Place in the World by Ann Cameron
- Pigs are Flying by Emily Rodda
- Racing the Sun by Paul Pitts
- Seventeenth Swap by Eloise McGraw
- Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
- Starstone by Grace Chetwin
- Staying Nine by Pam Conrad
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| 1990 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Beethoven's Cat by Elizabeth McHugh
- Black Star, Bright Dawn by Scott O'Dell
- Brothers of the Heart by Joan Blos
- The Case of the Watching Boy by Robert Newman
- Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty
- Cry Uncle by Mary Jane Auch
- Cuckoo Clock by Mary Stolz
- The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Patricia MacLachlan
- Gom on Windy Mountain by Grace Chetwin
- I'll Meet You at the Cucumbers by Liliam Moore
- The Illyrian Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
- The Luck of Z.A. P. and Zoe by Athena Lord
- Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen by Myron Levoy
- Mail-Order Kid by Joyce McDonald
- Mermaid Summer by Mollie Hunter
- Redwall by Brian Jacques
- Stinker from Space by Pamela Service
- Teacher's Pet by Joanna Hurwitz
- (Winner) This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us by Gary Greer
- Woof by Allan Ahlberg
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| 1989 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Theo Zephyr by Dean Hughes
- Addie Across the Prairie by Laurie Lawlor
- Anastasia's Chosen Career by Lois Lowry
- Behave Yourself, Bethany Brant by Patricia Beatty
- Bodies in the Besseldorf Hotel by Phyllis R. Naylor
- Class Clown by Joanna Hurwitz
- Devil's Other Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
- Don't Call Me Toad by Mary Francis Shura
- Dr. Dredd's Wagon of Wonders by Bill Brittain
- Ghost Drum by Susan Price
- Harry's Mad by Dick King-Smith
- House in the Snow by M.J. Engh
- Miracle Tree by Christobel Mattingley
- Mostly Michael by Robert Kimmel Smith
- Oliver Dibbs and the Dinosaur Cause by Barbara Steiner
- Pearl's Pirates by Frank Asch
- Tar Pit by Tor Seidler
- This is your Captain Speaking by Ivy Ruckman
- (Winner) Trapped in Death Cave by Bill Wallace
- Water Sky by Jean Craighead George
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| 1988 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Adventures of Johnny May by Robbie Branscum
- After the Dancing Days by Margaret Rostowski
- Babe: the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
- Building Blocks by Cynthia Voigt
- Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito by Sheila Garrigue
- General Butterfingers by John R. Gardiner
- Hidden Magic by Vivian Van de Velde
- The Magic Book by Willo D. Roberts
- Me, My Goat and My Sister's Wedding by Stella Pevsner
- More Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
- Not-Just-Anybody Family by Betsy Byars
- Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
- Racso and the Rats of NIMH by Jane Conly
- Return of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks
- Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O'Dell
- Switcharound by Lois Lowry
- Today's Special: Z.A.P. and Zoe by Athena Lord
- (Winner) Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
- What Eric Knew by James Howe
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| 1987 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein by Joanna Hurwitz
- And Don't Bring Jeremy by Marilyn Levinson
- Blair's Nightmare by Zelpha K. Snyder
- Blue Eyed Daisy by Cynthia Rylant
- Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
- Caught in the Moving Mountains by Gloria Skurzynski
- Come Sing, Jimmy Jo by Katherine Patterson
- Dark Secret of Weatherend by John Bellairs
- Ghost Cat by Beverly Butler
- Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt
- Nay Nuki: Girl Who Ran by Kenneth Thomasma
- Nutty and the Case of the Ski-Slope Spy by Dean Hughes
- Quentin Corn by Mary Stolz
- Root Cellar by Janet Lunn
- Search for Grissi by Mary Francis Shura
- (Winner) Skinny Jones by Barbara Park
- Soup on Ice by Robert Newton Peck
- Stay Away from Simon by Carol Carrick
- War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
- Wild Apple by Marion Potter
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| 1986 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Acorn Quest by Jane Yolen
- Eight Mules from Monterey by Patricia Beatty
- Flunking of Joshua T. Bates by Susan Shreve
- Ghosts of Austwick Manor by Reby MacDonald
- Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo D. Roberts
- Horse in the Attic by Eleanor Clymer
- I Be Somebody by Hadley Irwin
- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Lord
- (Winner) Just Me and the Weirdos by Jane Sutton
- Mitzi and Fredrick the Great by Barbara Williams
- Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
- Out of the Bug Jar by Kathleen Thomas
- Rich Mitch by Marjorie Sharmat
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
- Switching Tracks by Dean Hughes
- Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George
- Time's Up by Florence P. Heide
- Where's Buddy by Ron Roy
- Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
- Zan Hagen's Marathon by R.R. Knudson
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| 1985 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
- The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe
- Chester Cricket's New Home by George Selden
- Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs
- Dancing Carl by Gary Paulsen
- Devil's Donkey by Bill Brittain
- The Gift by Joan Lowry Nixon
- The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper by Timothy Foote
- Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
- Journey of the Shadow Bairns by Margaret Anderson
- Moffat Museum by Eleanor Estes
- The One Hundredth Thing about Caroline by Lois Lowry
- Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara B. Wallace
- Pet-Sitting Peril by Willo D. Roberts
- Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare
- (Winner) Stone Fox by John Gardiner
- Toad Food and Measle Soup by Christine McDonnell
- Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor
- What a Whip! by Carol Carrick
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| 1984 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Anastasia Again by Lois Lowry
- Apple is my Sign by Mary Riskind
- The Cat that was Left Behind by Carol S. Adler
- Coydog by Evelyn W. Mayerson
- Crystal Child by Barbara Wersba
- Hello... Wrong Number by Marilyn Sachs
- Honestly Myron by Dean Hughes
- How It Feels When a Parent Dies by Jill Krementz
- I am the Cat by Lee Hopkins
- Journey to an 800 Number by E.L. Konigsburg
- (Winner) Lost in the Devil's Desert by Gloris Skurzynski
- New Neighbors for Nora by Joanna Hurwitz
- Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky
- Night Swimmers by Betsy Byars
- Pennies for the Piper by Susan McLean
- Ramona Quimby,. Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
- Seventy-Nine Squares by Malcolm Bosse
- Summer Switch by Mary Rodgers
- Thousand Camps by Mary Waldorf
- Where are you, Angel von Hauptman? by Barbara Williams
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| 1983 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
- Arthur the Kid by Alan Coren
- Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by James and Deb Howe
- (Winner) The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling
- Eddie, Incorporated by Phyllis Naylor
- First Travel Guide to the Moon by Rhoda Blumberg
- The Fledgling by Jane Langton
- I Carve the Stone by Joan Fine
- Last was Lloyd by Doris B. Smith
- Legend of Scarface by Robert San Souci
- Long View into Space by Seymour Simon
- Nutty for President by Dean Hughes
- Save the Queen of Sheba by Louisa Moeri
- Son for a Day by Corinne Gerson
- The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
- Throwing Shadows by E.L. Konigsburg
- Viking Scientist by Wyatt Thor Heyerdahl Blassingame
- Westmark by Lloyd Alexander
- Words in Our Hands by Ada Litchfield
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| 1982 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- A Very Young Skater by Jill Krementz
- Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield
- City of Birds and Beasts by Jack Denton Scott
- Connie's New Eyes by Bernard Wolf
- Deadly Mandrake by Larry Callen
- Do Bananas Chew Gum? by Jamie Gilson
- Eat the Fruit, Plant the Seed by Millicent Selsam
- Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck
- The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight by Jack Prelutsky
- Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch
- Island of the Grass King by Nancy Willard
- Mr. Yhowder and the Giant Bull Snake by Glen Rounds
- On the Fontier with Mr. Audubon by Barbara Brenner
- Salted Lemons by Doris B. Smith
- Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
- (Winner) Superfudge by Judy Blume
- Weird and Wacky Inventions by Jim Murphy
- Weird Henry Berg by Sarah Sargent
- Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher... by Jean Fritz
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| 1981 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
- A Very Young Gymnast by Jill Krementz
- A Wild Chimpanzee by Geza Teleki
- Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater
- Beat the Turtle Drum by Constance Greene
- The Bones on Black Spruce Mountain by David Budbill
- Brendan the Navigator by Jean Fritz
- The Cartoonist by Betsy Byars
- Chameleon was a Spy by Diane R. Massie
- Conquista by Robert Clyde Bulla
- (Winner) Eddie's Menagerie by Carolyn Haywood
- Eyes of Amaryllis by Natalie Babbitt
- The Girl who Married a Ghost by John Bierhorst
- Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman
- (Winner) The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring by John Bellairs
- My Village Sturbridge by Gary Bowen
- The Odyssey of Ben O'Neal by Theodore Taylor
- Warton's Christmas Eve Adventure by Russell Erickson
- Wind is not a River by Arnold Griese
- Zia by Scott O'Dell
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| 1980 Children's Fiction Nominees |
- Abel's Island by William Steig
- And This is Laura by Laura Conford
- Below the Root by Zelpha K. Snyder
- Billion for Boris by Mary Rodgers
- Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz
- First Two Lives of Lucas Kasha by Lloyd Alexander
- The Garden is Doing Fine by Carol Farley
- Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson
- Hundred Penny Box by Sharon B. Mathis
- Hundredth Dove and Other Tales by Jane Yolen
- In the Face of Danger by Mara Kay
- Is There Life on a Plastic Planet by Mildred Ames
- Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon by Bette Greene
- Pinballs by Betsy Byars
- Pyramid by David Macauly
- (Winner) Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
- Somebody Else's Child by Roberta Silman
- Toad for Tuesday by Russell Erickson
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
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