Past Winners of the DCF Award
|
Year |
Author |
Title |
| 2008 | Lord, Cynthia | RULES |
| 2007 | Hiassen, Carl | FLUSH |
| 2006 | Hahn, Mary Downing | THE OLD WILLIS PLACE |
| 2005 | DiCamillo, Kate | THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX |
| 2004 | Spinelli, Jerry | LOSER |
| 2006 | Creech, Sharon | LOVE THAT DOG |
| 2002 | DiCamillo, Kate | BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE |
| 2001 | Curtis, Christopher Paul | BUD, NOT BUDDY |
| 2000 | Sachar, Louis | HOLES |
| 1999 | Levine, Gail Carson | ELLA ENCHANTED |
| 1998 | Kehret, Peg | SMALL STEPS: The Year I Got Polio |
| 1997 | Park, Barbara | MICK HARTE WAS HERE |
| 1996 | Hahn, Mary Downing | TIME FOR ANDREW |
| 1995 | Cooper, Susan | THE BOGGART |
| 1994 | Coville, Bruce | JENNIFER MURDLEY'S TOAD |
| 1993 | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | SHILOH |
| 1992 | Spinelli, Jerry | MANIAC MAGEE |
| 1991 | Lowry, Lois | NUMBER THE STARS |
| 1990 | Ehrlich, Amy | WHERE IT STOPS, NOBODY KNOWS |
| 1989 | Paulsen, Gary | HATCHET |
| 1988 | Hahn, Mary Downing | WAIT TILL HELEN COMES |
| 1987 | Winthrop, Elizabeth | THE CASTLE IN THE ATTIC |
| 1986 | Smith, Robert | THE WAR WITH GRANDPA |
| 1985 | Cleary, Beverly | DEAR MR. HENSHAW |
| 1984 | Mauser, Pat Rhoades | A BUNDLE OF STICKS |
| 1983 | Blume, Judy | TIGER EYES |
| 1982 | Pascal, Francine | THE HAND-ME-DOWN KID |
| 1981 | Howe, James | BUNNICULA |
| 1980 | Budbill, David | BONES ON BLACK SPRUCE MOUNTAIN |
| 1979 | Pfeffer, Susan | KID POWER |
| 1978 | Duncan, Lois | SUMMER OF FEAR |
| 1977 | Pevsner, Stella | A SMART KID LIKE YOU |
| 1976 | Merrill, Jan | THE TOOTHPASTE MILLIONAIRE |
| 1975 | Byars, Betsy | THE EIGHTEENTH EMERGENCY |
| 1974 | Woods, George | CATCH A KILLER |
| 1973 | Caufield, Donald E. | NEVER STEAL A MAGIC CAT |
| 1972 | Ellis, Melvin | FLIGHT OF THE WHITE WOLF |
| 1971 | Erwin, B. K. | GO TO THE ROOM OF THE EYES |
| 1970 | Morey, Walt | KAVIK THE WOLF DOG |
| 1969 | Thompson, M.W. | TWO IN THE WILDERNESS |
| 1968 | Jackson, Jacqueline | THE TASTE OF SPRUCE GUM |
| 1967 | Viereck, Phillip | THE SUMMER I WAS LOST |
| 1966 | Cleary, Beverly | RIBSY |
| 1965 | North, Sterling | RASCAL |
| 1964 | Ball, Zachary | THE BRISTLE FACE |
| 1963 | Burnford, Sheila | THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY |
| 1962 | Lampman, Honore | CITY UNDER THE BACK STEPS |
| 1961 | Bell, Thelma | CAPTAIN GHOST |
| 1960 | Erickson, Phoebe | DOUBLE OR NOTHING |
| 1959 | Leighton, Margaret | COMANCHE OF THE SEVENTH |
| 1958 | Cleary, Beverly | FIFTEEN |
| 1957 | Pace, Mildred | OLD BONES, THE WONDER HORSE |