| A | B |
| The Puzzling World of Winston Breen | Eric Berlinn |
| The Middle of Somewhere | J. B. Cheaney |
| The Lemonade War | Jacqueline Davies |
| The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School | Candace Fleming |
| Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything In It | Sundee T. Frazier |
| Igraine the Brave | Cornelia Funke |
| Found | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| Defiance | Valerie Hobbs |
| Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat | Lynne Jonell |
| Me and the Pumpkin Queen | Marlane Kennedy |
| The Year of the Dog | Grace Lin |
| Highway Cats | Janet Taylor Lisle |
| Punished | David Lubar |
| Night of the Howling Dogs | Graham Salisbury |
| A Crooked Kind of Perfect | Linda Urban |
| On the Wings of Heroes | Richard Peck |
| Travels of Thelonious | Susan Schade and Jon Buller |
| The Aurora County All-Stars | Deborah Wiles |