* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | The Boys of San Joaquin | D. James Smith | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | |
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | Flush | Carl Hiaasen | Knopf Books for Young Readers | |
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | Shakespeare's Secret | Elise Broach | Henry Holt | |
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | The Missing Manatee | Cynthia DeFelice | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | Wright & Wong: The Case of the Nana-Napper | Laura J. Burns, Melinda Metz | Penguin Young Readers - Sleuth/Razorbill | |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | Chasing Vermeer | Blue Balliett | Scholastic | |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | Abduction! | Peg Kehret | Penguin Young Readers - Dutton | |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | Assassin | Patricia Finney | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | Comment: The Lady Grace Mysteries |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | Looking for Bobowicz | Daniel Pinkwater | HarperCollins Children's Books | |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | The Unseen | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Dust | Arthur Slade | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Lily's Ghosts | Laura Ruby | HarperCollins Children's Books | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception | Wendelin Van Draanen | Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | The Malted Falcon | Bruce Hale | Harcourt Children's Books | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | Harriet Spies Again | Helen Ericson | Random House/Delacorte Press | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | O'Dwyer & Grady: Starring in Acting Innocent | Eileen Heyes | Simon & Schuster/Alladin Paperbacks | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | Riding the Flume | Patricia Curtis Pfitsch | Simon & Schuster/BFYR | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eye | Wendelin Van Draanen | Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | The Case of the Greedy Granny: Jake Gander, Storyville Detective | George McClements | Hyperion | |
| 2002 | Best Juvenile | Dangling | Lillian Eige | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum | |
| 2002 | Best Juvenile | Bug Muldoon | Paul Shipton | Penguin-Putnam/Viking | |
| 2002 | Best Juvenile | Following Fake Man | Barbara Ware Holmes | Random House/Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2002 | Best Juvenile | Ghost Sitter | Peni R. Griffin | Penguin-Putnam/Dutton | |
| 2002 | Best Juvenile | Ghost Soldier | Elaine Marie Alphin | Henry Holt | |
| 2001 | Best Juvenile | Dovey Coe | Frances O'Roark Dowell | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2001 | Best Juvenile | Ghosts in the Gallery | Barbara Brooks Wallace | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2001 | Best Juvenile | Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Mustache Mary | Wendelin Van Draanen | Knopf | |
| 2001 | Best Juvenile | Trouble at Fort La Pointe | Kathleen Ernst | American Girl | |
| 2001 | Best Juvenile | Walking to the Bus Rider Blues | Harriette Gillem Robinet | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2000 | Best Juvenile | The Night Flyers | Elizabeth McDavid Jones | Pleasant Company Publications | |
| 2000 | Best Juvenile | Dolphin Luck | Hilary McKay | McElderry Books | |
| 2000 | Best Juvenile | Green Thumb | Rob Thomas | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2000 | Best Juvenile | Howie Bowles, Secret Agent | Kate Banks | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | Comment: illus. by Isaac Millman |
| 2000 | Best Juvenile | Shadow Horse | Alison Hart | Random House | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief | Wendelin Van Draanen | Knopf | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | Alice Rose & Sam | Kathryn Lasky | Hyperion | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | Holes | Louis Sachar | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | The Kidnappers | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | The Wreckers | Iain Lawrence | Delacorte Press | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Sparrows in the Scullery | Barbara Brooks Wallace | Atheneum | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Christie & Company Down East | Katherine Hall Page | Avon | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Secrets at Hidden Valley | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Turn the Cup Around | Barbara Mariconda | Delacorte Press | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Wolf Stalker | Alane Ferguson, Gloria Skurzynski | National Geographic Society | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | The Clearing | Dorothy Reynolds Miller | Atheneum | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | Cousins in the Castle | Barbara Brooks Wallace | Atheneum | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | Gaps in Stone Walls | John Neufield | Atheneum | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | The Case of the Wiggling Wig | E.W. Hildick | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | The Last Piper | Helen Cavanagh | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | Looking for Jamie Bridger | Nancy Springer | Dial | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | Marvelous Marvin and the Pioneer Ghost | Bonnie Pryor | Morrow | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | Running Out of Time | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | The 13th Floor | Sid Fleischman | Greenwillow | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | The Bones in the Cliff | James Stevenson | Greenwillow | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | The Absolutely True Story..How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Caught | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Harvey's Mystifying Racoon Mix Up | Eth Clifford | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Hester Bidgood Investigatrix of Eveil Deeds | E.W. Hildick | Macmillan | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Trouble Will Find You | Joan M. Lexau | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1994 | Best Juvenile | The Twin in the Tavern | Barbara Brooks Wallace | Atheneum | |
| 1994 | Best Juvenile | Sam the Cat, Detective | Linda Stewart | Scholastic | |
| 1994 | Best Juvenile | Spider Kane and the Mystery at Jumbo Nightcrawler's | Mary Pope Osborne | Knopf | |
| 1994 | Best Juvenile | Tangled Web | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | Margaret K. McElderry Books | |
| 1994 | Best Juvenile | The Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Atheneum | |
| 1993 | Best Juvenile | Coffin on a Case! | Eve Bunting | HarperCollins | |
| 1993 | Best Juvenile | Fish and Bones | Ray Prather | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1993 | Best Juvenile | Susannah and the Purple Mongoose | Patricia Elmore | Dutton | |
| 1993 | Best Juvenile | The Treasure Bird | Peni R. Griffin | McElderry Books | |
| 1993 | Best Juvenile | The Widow's Broom | Chris Van Allsburg | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Wanted...Mud Blossom | Betsy Byars | Delacorte Press | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Double Trouble Squared | Kathryn Lasky | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Finding Buck McHenry | Alfred Slote | HarperCollins | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Mystery on October Road | Alison Cragin Herzig, Jane Lawrence Mali | Viking | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Witch Weed | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Delacorte Press | |
| 1991 | Best Juvenile | Stonewords | Pam Conrad | Harper & Row | |
| 1991 | Best Juvenile | Cave Ghost | Barbara Steiner | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1991 | Best Juvenile | The Midnight Horse | Sid Fleischman | Greenwillow | |
| 1991 | Best Juvenile | The Tormentors | Lynn Hall | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1991 | Best Juvenile | To Grandmother's House We Go | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Megan's Island | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Following the Mystery Man | Mary Downing Hahn | Clarion Books | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Is There Anybody There? | Eve Bunting | Lippincott | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Something Upstairs | Avi | Orchard Books | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb | John Bellairs | Dial | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks | Susan Shreve | Henry Holt | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | Bury the Dead | Peter Carter | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | The House on the Hill | Eileen Dunlop | Holiday House | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | The Twisted Windows | Lois Duncan | Delacorte Press | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | Through the Hidden Door | Rosemary Wells | Dial | |
| 1987 | Best Juvenile | The Other Side of Dark | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1987 | Best Juvenile | Floating Illusions | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | Harper & Row | |
| 1987 | Best Juvenile | The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Atheneum | |
| 1987 | Best Juvenile | The Secret Life of Dilly McBean | Dorothy Haas | Bradbury | |
| 1987 | Best Juvenile | The Skeleton Man | Jay Bennett | Franklin Watts | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | The Sandman's Eyes | Patricia Windsor | Delacorte Press | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | Locked in Time | Lois Duncan | Little, Brown | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | On the Edge | Gillian Cross | Holiday House | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | Playing Murder | Sandra Scoppettone | Harper & Row | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | Screaming High | David Line | Little, Brown |