Past Winners The first list of nominated books was distributed for the 1991-92 school year. There were only two awards at that time (Picture Book and Book Award.) For the 1992-93 school year, the committee decided to have three awards: Picture Book, Grades 4-6, and Grades 6-9. The first high school winner was announced in 2000. 2012 - 2013 Picture Books Jef Czekaj Cat Secrets Grades 4 - 6 Gill Lewis Wild Wings Grades 6 - 9 Adam Gidwitz A Tale Dark & Grimm High school Veronica Roth Divergent 2011 - 2012 Picture Books Scillian/Bowers Memoirs of a Goldfish Grades 4 - 6 Victoria Forester The Girl Who Could Fly Grades 6 - 9 Sharon Draper Out of My Mind High school April Henry Girl, Stolen 2010 - 2011 Picture Books Tony Fucile Let’s Do Nothing Grades 4 - 6 Wendy Mass 11 Birthdays Grades 6 - 9 S. A. Bodeen The Compound High school Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games 2009 - 2010 Picture Books Mélanie Watt Chester Grades 4 - 6 Gordon Korman Swindle Grades 6 - 9 Gordon Korman Schooled High school Neal Shusterman Unwind 2008-2009 Picture Books Mélanie Watt Scaredy Squirrel Grades 4 - 6 Andrew Clements No Talking Grades 6 - 9 Ally Carter I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You High school Susan Beth Pfeffer Life As We Knew IT 2007 - 2008 Picture Books Stevens/Crummel The Great Fuzz Frenzy Grades 4 - 6 Joseph Delaney Revenge of the Witch: The Last Apprentice Grades 6 - 9 Jordan Sonnenblick Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie High school Stephenie Meyer Twilight 2006 - 2007 Picture Book Kevin O’Malley Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude Grades 4 - 6 Dori Butler Trading Places with Tank Talbott Grades 6 - 9 Priscilla Cummings Red Kayak High School Jodi Picoult My Sister’s Keeper 2005 - 2006 Picture Book Leah Wilcox Falling for Rapunzel Grades 4 - 6 Betty Birney The World According to Humphrey Grades 6 - 9 Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember High School Neal Shusterman Full Tilt 2004 - 2005 Picture Book French/Whatley Diary of a Wombat Grades 4 - 6 Diane Stanley Mysterious Matter of I. M. Finek Grades 6 - 9 Vivian Vande Velde Heir Apparent High School Margaret Bechard Hanging on to Max 2003 - 2004 Picture Book Prelutsky/Sis Scranimals Grades 4 - 6 Dan Gutman Million Dollar Kick Grades 6 - 9 Anthony Horowitz Point Blank High School Alex Flinn Breathing Underwater 2002 - 2003 Picture Book Palatini/Egielski Web Files Grades 4 - 6 Betsy Duffey Cody Unplugged Grades 6 - 9 Julie Ann Peters Define Normal High School Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2001 - 2002 Picture Book Cronin/Lewin Click, Clack, Moo Grades 4 - 6 Kate DiCamillo Because of Winn Dixie Grades 6 - 9 Vivian Vande Velde There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around High School Jacqueline Woodson If You Come Softly 2000 - 2001 Picture Book Simms/Catrow Rotten Teeth Grades 4 - 6 Gordon Korman The 6th Grade Nickname Game Grades 6 - 9 Louis Sachar Holes High School Sarah Dessen Nancy Werlin Someone Like You The Killer's Cousin 1999 - 2000 Picture Books David Shannon A Bad Case of the Stripes Grades 4 - 6 Lee Wardlaw 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents Grades 6 - 9 Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted High school David Klass Danger Zone 1998-1999 Picture Books Rod Clement Just Another Ordinary Day Grade 4-6 Andrew Clements Frindle Grade 6-9 Margaret Haddix Don't You Dare Read This Mrs. Dumphries 1997-1998 Picture Book Margie Palatini Piggie Pie! Grade 4-6 Sid Fleischman The13th Floor: A Ghost Story Grade 6-9 Margaret P. Haddix Running Out of Time 1996-1997 Picture Book Tom Birdseye Grade 4-6 Mary Downing Hahn Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story Grade 6-9 Joan Lowery Nixon Soap! Soap! Don't Forget the Soap! The Name of the Game Was Murder 1995-1996 Picture Book Jerdine Nolen Harold Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm Grade 4-6 Elvira Woodruff Ghosts Don't Get Goosebumps Grade 6-9 Jim Murphy Night Terrors 1994-1995 Picture Book Ed Emberly Go Away, Big Green Monster Grade 4-6 Jerry Spinelli Fourth Grade Rats Grade 6-9 Lois Lowry The Giver 1993 -1994 Picture Book Jan Brett Trouble with Trolls Grade 4-6 Bruce Coville Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher Grade 6-9 Mary Downing Hahn Stepping on the Cracks 1992 -1993 Picture Book Sam Swope The Araboolies of Liberty Street Grade 4-6 Judy Blume Fudge-A-Mania Grade 6-9 Annette Curtis Klause The Silver Kiss 1991 -1992 Picture Book Jon Scieszka The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf Book Award Roald Dahl Matilda