Previous Winners

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2008
Surfer of the Century
by Ellie Crowe
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Jeannette Rankin: Political Pioneer
by Gretchen Woelfle
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2007
Freedom Walkers
By Russell Freedman
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2006
The Doll With The Yellow Star
by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root
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2005
Ellington Was Not a Street
by Ntozake Shange
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
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2004
Luba:The Angel of Bergen-Belsen
by Michelle R. McCann
Luba Tryszynska-Frederick
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2003
Thank You, Sarah
by Laurie Halse Anderson |
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2002
Freedom Summer
by Deborah Wiles - New York: Atheneum Books, 2001. |
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2001
THE YEAR OF MISS AGNES
by Kirkpatrick Hill - New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2000. |
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2000
THROUGH MY EYES
by Ruby Bridges; articles and interviews compiled and edited by Margo Lundell. 1st ed. - New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.
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1999
SO FAR FROM THE SEA
by Eve Bunting; illustrated by Chris Soentpiet - New York: Clarion Books, 1998. |
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1998
GATHERING THE SUN: an alphabet in Spanish and English
by Alma Flor Ada; English translation by Rosa Zubizarreta; illustrated by Simon Silva - New York: Lothrop Lee & Shepard Books, 1997. |
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1997
THE WAGON
by Tony Johnston; paintings by James E. Ransome - 1st ed. - New York: Tambourine Books,1996. |
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1997
THE DAY GOGO WENT TO VOTE: South Africa, April 1994
by Elinor Batezat Sisulu; illustrated by Sharon Wilson
- 1st ed. - Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. |
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1996
A SCHOOL FOR POMPEY WALKER
by Michael J. Rosen; illustrated by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson - 1st ed. - San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995. |
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