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Established 1922. A medal presented annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in the United States in the preceding year. The recipient must be a citizen or resident of the United States. The winner is announced at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting (January/February), and the award is presented at the ALA summer conference.
 | 1999 - Louis Sachar, Holes
| 1998 - Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust
| 1997 - E.L. Konigsburg. The View From Saturday
| 1996 - Karen Cushman. The Midwife's Apprentice
| 1995 - Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons
| 1994 - Lois Lowry. The Giver
| 1993 - Cynthia Rylant. Missing May
| 1992 - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Shiloh
| 1991 - Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee
| 1990 - Lois Lowry. Number the Stars
| 1989 - Paul Fleischman. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
| 1988 - Russell Freedman. Lincoln: A Photobiography
| 1987 - Sid Fleischman. The Whipping Boy
| 1986 - Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall
| 1985 - Robin McKinley. The Hero and the Crown
| 1984 - Beverly Cleary. Dear Mr. Henshaw
| 1983 - Cynthia Voigt. Dicey's Song
| 1982 - Nancy Willard. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for
Innocent and Experienced Travelers
| 1981 - Katherine Paterson. Jacob Have I Loved
| 1980 - Joan Blos. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal,
1830-32
| 1979 - Ellen Raskin. The Westing Game
| 1978 - Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia
| 1977 - Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
| 1976 - Susan Cooper. The Grey King
| 1975 - Virginia Hamilton. M.C. Higgins, the Great
| 1974 - Paula Fox. The Slave Dancer
| 1973 - Jean Craighead George. Julie of the Wolves
| 1972 - Robert C. O'Brien. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
| 1971 - Betsy Byars. The Summer of the Swans
| 1970 - William H. Armstrong. Sounder
| 1969 - Lloyd Alexander. The High King
| 1968 - E.L. Konigsburg. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler
| 1967 - Irene Hunt. Up a Road Slowly
| 1966 - Elizabeth Borton de Treviņo. I, Juan de Pareja
| 1965 - Maia Wojciechowska. Shadow of a Bull
| 1964 - Emily C. Neville. It's Like This, Cat
| 1963 - Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time
| 1962 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Bronze Bow
| 1961 - Scott O'Dell. Island of the Blue Dolphins
| 1960 - John Krumgold. Onion John
| 1959 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
| 1958 - Harold V. Keith. Rifles for Watie
| 1957 - Virginia Sorensen. Miracles on Maple Hill
| 1956 - Jean Lee Latham. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
| 1955 - Meindert DeJong. The Wheel on the School
| 1954 - John Krumgold. ... And Now Miguel
| 1953 - Ann Nolan Clark. Secret of the Andes
| 1952 - Eleanor Estes. Ginger Pye
| 1951 - Elizabeth Yates. Amos Fortune, Free Man
| 1950 - Marguerite de Angeli. The Door in the Wall
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