Previous Winners

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2005-2006

• Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret. Aladdin, ©2004. (Winner grades 3-5)
• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde. Magic Carpet Books, ©2004. (Winner grades 6-8)

2004-2005

• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Random House, ©2003. (Winner grades 3-5 and 6-8)

2003-2004

• Me Tarzan by Betsy Byars. Harper Collins, ©2000. (Winner grades 3-5)
• Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen. HarperCollins, ©2001. (Winner grades 6-8)

2002-2003

• Holes by Louis Sachar. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ©1998. (Winner grades 3-5 and 6-8)

2001-2002

• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Candlewick Press, ©2000. (Winner grades 3-5)
• Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Simon & Schuster, ©1998. (Winner grades 6-8)

2000-2001

• The Ghost in Room 11 by Betty Ren Wright. Holiday House, ©1998. (Winner grades 3-5)
• The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice. Farrar Straus Giroux, ©1998. (Winner grades 6-8)

1999-2000

• The Volcano Disaster by Peg Kehret. Minstrel Books, ©1998. (Winner grades 3-5).
• Jaguar by Roland Smith. Hyperion Books, ©1997. (Winner grades 6-8).

1998-99

• 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents by Lee Wardlaw. Dial, ©1996. (Winner grades 3-5 and 6-8)

1997-98

• Tornado by Betsy Byars. HarperCollins, ©1996. (Winner grades 3-5)
• Ghosts Don’t Get Goose Bumps by Elvira Woodruff. Holiday House, ©1993. (Winner grades 6-8)

1996-97

• Nasty, Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting. HarperCollins, ©1994. (Winner grades 3-5 and 6-8)

1995-96

• Blackwater Swamp by Bill Wallace. Holiday House, ©1994. (Winner grades 3-5)
• Seventh-Grade Weirdo by Lee Wardlaw. Scholastic Inc., ©1992. (Winner grades 6-8)

1994-95

• Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieszka. Viking, ©1991. (Winner grades 3-5)
• Devil's Bridge by Cynthia DeFelice. Macmillan, ©1992. (Winner grades 6-8)

1993-94

• The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother by Elvira Woodruff. Holiday House, ©1990. (Winner grades 3-5)
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi. Orchard, ©1990. (Winner grades 6-8)

1992-93

• Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume. Dutton, ©1990. (Winner grades 3-5)
• Nightmare by Willo Davis Roberts. Atheneum, ©1989. (Winner grades 6-8)

1991-92

• Fudge by Charlotte Towner Graeber. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, ©1987. (Winner grades 3-5)
• Something Upstairs by Avi. Orchard Books/Franklin Watts, ©1988. (Winner grades 6-8)

1990-91

• There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar. Alfred Knopf, ©1987. (Winner grades 3-5 and 6-8)

1989-90

• Teacher's Pet by Johanna Hurwitz. William Morrow, ©1988. (Winner grades 3-5)
• Trapped in Death Cave by Bill Wallace. Holiday House,© c1984. (Winner grades 6-8)

1988-89

• Sixth-grade Sleepover by Eve Bunting. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1986. (Winner grades 3-5 and 6-8)

1987-88

• Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements. Viking, ©1985. (Winner grades 3-8)

1986-87

• Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson. Lothrop, ©1982. (Winner grades 4-8)

1985-86

• Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days by Stephen Manes. Clarion,© c1982. (Winners grades 4-8)

1984-85

• Superfudge by Judy Blume. E.P. Dutton, ©1980. (Winner grades 4-8)

1983-84

• Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe. Atheneum, ©1979. (Winner grades 4-8)