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| 1959 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare | |
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| 1958 | Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith | |
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| 1957 | Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson | |
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| 1956 | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham | |
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| 1955 | The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong | |
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| 1954 | ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold | |
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| 1953 | Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark | |
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| 1952 | Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes | |
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| 1951 | Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates | |
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| 1950 | The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli | |
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| 1949 | King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry | |
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| 1948 | The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois | |
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| 1947 | Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | |
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| 1946 | Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski | |
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| 1945 | Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson | |
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| 1944 | Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes |
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| 1943 | Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
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| 1942 | The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds | |
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| 1941 | Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry | |
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| 1940 | Daniel Boone by James Daugherty | |
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| 1939 | Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright | |
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| 1938 | The White Stag by Kate Seredy | |
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| 1937 | Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer | |
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| 1936 | Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink | |
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| 1935 | Dobry by Monica Shannon | |
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| 1934 | Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs | |
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| 1933 | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis | |
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| 1932 | Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer | |
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| 1931 | The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth | |
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| 1930 | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field | |
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| 1929 | The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly | |
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| 1928 | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji | |
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| 1927 | Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James | |
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| 1926 | Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman | |
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| 1925 | Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger | |
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| 1924 | The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes | |
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| 1923 | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting | |
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| 1922 | The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon | |