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Winners and Honor books are named yearly by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine.
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2007
Winners:
| The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing | M.T. Anderson |
| The Strongest Man in the World | Nicolas Debon |
Honor Books:
| Clementine | Sara Pennypacker |
| Rex Zero and the End of the World | Tim Wynne-Jones |
| Tracking Trash | Loree Griffin Burns |
| Escape! | Sid Fleischman |
2006
Winners:
| The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate DiCamillo |
| If You Decide to Go to the Moon | Faith McNulty and Steven Kellogg |
Honor Books:
| Yellow Elephant | Julie Larios |
| Yellow Star | Jennifer Roy |
| A Mother's Journey | Sandra Markle |
| Wildfire | Taylor Morrison |
2005
Winners:
| The Schwa Was Here | Neal Shusterman |
| The Race to Save the Lord God Bird | Phillip Hoose |
Honor Books:
| Kalpana's Dream | Judith Clarke |
| A Wreath for Emmett Till | Marilyn Nelson |
| Good Brother, Bad Brother | James Cross Giblin |
| Michael Rosen's Sad Book | Michael Rosen |
2004
Winners:
| The Fire-Eaters | David Almond |
| An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Jim Murphy |
Honor Books:
| God Went to Beauty School | Cynthia Rylant |
| The Amulet of Samarkand | Jonathan Stroud |
| Surprising Sharks | Nicola Davis |
| The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins | Bea Uusma Schyffert |
2003
Winners:
| The Jamie and Angus Stories | Anne Fine |
| Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey | Maira Kalman |
Honor Books:
| Feed | M.T. Anderson |
| Locomotion | Jacqueline Woodson |
| To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers | Wendie C. Old |
| Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex | Nathaniel Philbrick |
2002
Winners:
| Lord of the Deep | Graham Salisbury |
| This Land Was Made for You and Me | Elizabeth Partridge |
Honor Books:
| Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart | Vera Williams |
| Saffy's Angel | Hilary McKay |
| Handel: Who Knew What He Liked | M.T. Anderson |
| Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People | Bonnie Christensen |
2001
Winners:
| Carver: A Life in Poems | Marilyn Nelson |
| The Longitude Prize | Joan Dash |
Honor Books:
| Everything on a Waffle | Polly Horvath |
| Troy | Adele Geras |
| Rocks in His Head | Carol Otis Hurst |
| Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa | Don Brown |
2000
Winners:
| The Folk Keeper | Franny Billingsley |
| Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado | Adele Geras |
Honor Books:
| King of Shadows | Susan Cooper |
| 145th Street | Walter Dean Myers |
| Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter | Osceola Mays |
| Sitting Bull and His World | Albert Marrin |