1998 - Henrietta Branford . Fire, Bed and Bone (Walker Books)
Other shortlisted titles:
- Jamila Gavin. The Track of the Wind (Mammoth)
- J.A. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury)
- Jane Stemp. Secret Songs (Hodder Children's Books)
1997 - Melvin Burgess, Junk
1996 - Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (His dark materials: book 1) (US title: The Golden Compass)
1995 - Lesley Howarth, Maphead
1994 - Sylvia Waugh, The Mennyms
1993 - William Mayne, Low Tide
1992 - Rachel Anderson, Paper Faces and Hilary McKay, The Exiles
1991 - Robert Westall, The Kingdom by the Sea
1990 - Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes (Published in the US as My War with Goggle-Eyes
1989 - Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies
1988 - Ruth Thomas, The Runaways
1987 - James Aldridge, The True Story of Spit MacPhee
1986 - Ann Pilling, Henry's Leg
1985 - Ted Hughes, What is the Truth?
1984 - Dick King-Smith, The Sheep-Pig (Published in the US as Babe, the Gallant Pig
1983 - Anita Desai, The Village by the Sea
1982 - Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
1981 - Peter Carter, The Sentinels
1980 - Ann Schlee, The Vandal
1979 - Andrew Davies, Conrad's War
1978 - Diana Wynne Jones, A Charmed Life
1977 - Peter Dickinson, The Blue Hawk
1976 - Nina Bawden, The Peppermint Pig
1975 - Winifred Cawley, Gran at Coalgate
1974 - Barbara Willard, The Iron Lily
1973 - Richard Adams, Watership Down
1972 - Gillian Avery, A Likely Lad
1971 - John Christopher, The Guardians
1970 - K.M. Peyton, Flambards (The Trilogy)
1969 - Joan Aiken, The Whispering Mountain
1968 - Alan Garner, The Owl Service
1967 - Leon Garfield, Devil-in-the-Fog
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