* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | In Darkness, Death | Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler | Philomel | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Jude | Kate Morgenroth | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Missing Abby | Lee Weatherly | David Fickling Books | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Story Time | Edward Bloor | Harcourt Children's Books | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | The Book of Dead Days | Marcus Sedgwick | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Acceleration | Graham McNamee | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Death and the Arrow | Chris Priestly | Knopf Books for Young Readers | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Feast of Fools | Bridget Crowley | McElderry - Simon & Schuster | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | The Last Treasure | Janet Anderson | Dutton Children's Group | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Uncovering Sadie's Secrets | Libby Sternberg | Bancroft Press | |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | The Wessex Papers, Vols. 1-3 | Daniel Parker | Avon | |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | Cheating Lessons | Nan Willard Cappo | Atheneum | |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | Hit and Run | Mark Delaney | Peachtree | |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | Safe House | Jenny Carroll | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | The Night the Penningtons Vanished | Marianna Heusler | Larcom Press | |
| 2002 | Best Young Adult | The Boy in the Burning House | Tim Wynne-Jones | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books | |
| 2002 | Best Young Adult | Dark Secrets Don't Tell | Elizabeth Chandler | Pocket Books/Archway Paperbacks | |
| 2002 | Best Young Adult | Death on Sacred Ground | Harriet K. Feder | Lerner Publications Co. | |
| 2002 | Best Young Adult | Shades of Simon Gray | Joyce McDonald | Delacorte Press | |
| 2002 | Best Young Adult | The Morgue and Me | John C. Ford | Penguin Young Readers Group/Viking Childrens Books | |
| 2002 | Best Young Adult | Witch Hill | Marcus Sedgwick | Delacorte Press | |
| 2001 | Best Young Adult | Counterfeit Son | Elaine Marie Alphin | Harcourt, Inc. | |
| 2001 | Best Young Adult | Locked Inside | Nancy Werlin | Delacorte Press | |
| 2001 | Best Young Adult | Silent to the Bone | E.L. Konigsburg | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2001 | Best Young Adult | The Body of Christopher Creed | Carol Plum-Ucci | Harcourt, Inc. | |
| 2000 | Best Young Adult | Never Trust a Dead Man | Vivian Vande Velde | Harcourt Brace | |
| 2000 | Best Young Adult | Monster | Walter Dean Myers | HarperCollins | |
| 2000 | Best Young Adult | Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 2000 | Best Young Adult | That Kind of Money | Vicki Cameron | Indigo Books | |
| 2000 | Best Young Adult | The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn | Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler | Philomel | |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | The Killer's Cousin | Nancy Werlin | Delacorte Press | |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | Finn | Katharine Jay Bacon | Simon & Schuster | Series: Margaret K. McElderry Books |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | For Mike | Shelley Sykes | Delacorte Press | |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | Paperquake | Kathryn Reiss | Harcourt, Brace & Co. | |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | The Maze | Will Hobbs | Morrow Junior Books | |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Ghost Canoe | Will Hobbs | Morrow Junior Books | |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Deal with a Ghost | Marilyn Sanger | Henry Holt | |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Tangerine | Edward Bloor | Harcourt, Brace & Co. | |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Thin Ice | Marsha Qualey | Delacorte Press | |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Yesterday's Child | Sonia Levitin | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Twisted Summer | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Flyers | Daniel Hayes | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Hawk Moon | Rob MacGregor | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Mr. Was | Peter Hautman | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? | Mel Glenn | Lodestar | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Prophecy Rock | Rob MacGregor | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Angel's Gate | Gary Crew | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | In the Middle of the Night | Robert Cormier | Delacorte Press | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Spirit Seeker | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Spying on Miss Muller | Eve Bunting | Clarion Books | |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | Toughing It | Nancy Springer | Harcourt Brace | |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | Pale Phoenix | Kathryn Reiss | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | Poison | Alane Ferguson | Bradbury | |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | Shadowmaker | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | The Midnight Club | Christopher Pike | Pocket Books | |
| 1994 | Best Young Adult | The Name of the Game Was Murder | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1994 | Best Young Adult | Class Trip | Bebe Faas Rice | Harper | |
| 1994 | Best Young Adult | Help Wanted | Richie Tankersley Cusick | Archway | |
| 1994 | Best Young Adult | Silent Witness | Patricia H. Rushford | Bethany House | |
| 1994 | Best Young Adult | Strange Objects | Gary Crew | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | A Little Bit Dead | Chap Reaver | Delacorte Press | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | Breaking the Fall | Michael Cadnum | Viking | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | The Highest Form of Killing | Malcolm Rose | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | The One Who Came Back | Joann Mazzio | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | The Weekend Was Murder | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | The Weirdo | Theodore Taylor | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | Calling Home | Michael Cadnum | Viking | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | Scarface | Peter Nelson | Archway | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | The Christmas Killer | Patricia Windsor | Scholastic | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | We All Fall Down | Robert Cormier | Delacorte Press | |
| 1991 | Best Young Adult | Mote | Chap Reaver | Delacorte Press | |
| 1991 | Best Young Adult | Guilt Trip | Stephen Schwandt | Atheneum | |
| 1991 | Best Young Adult | The Secret Keeper | Gloria Whelan | Knopf | |
| 1991 | Best Young Adult | Zachary | Ernest Pintoff | Eriksson | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | Show Me the Evidence | Alane Ferguson | Bradbury | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | Fell Back | M.E. Kerr | Harper & Row | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | Remember Me | Christopher Pike | Archway | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | Sniper | Theodore Taylor | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | The Man Who Was Poe | Avi | Orchard Books | |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | Second Fiddle | Ronald Kidd | Lodestar-Dutton | |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | Shadow in the North | Philip Pullman | Knopf | |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | The Accident | Todd Strasser | Delacorte Press | |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | The Falcon Sting | Barbara Brenner | Bradbury | |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | Incident at Loring Groves | Sonia Levitin | Dial |
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