☆ Amos Fortune, Free Man : Elizabeth Yates [1951]
- Better Known as Johnny Appleseed : Mabel Leigh Hunt
- Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword : Jeanette Eaton
- Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People : Clara Ingram Judson
- The Story of Appleby Capple : Anne Parrish
☆ Ginger Pye : Eleanor Estes [1952]
- Americans Before Columbus : Elizabeth Baity
- Minn of the Mississippi : Holling C. Holling
- The Defender : Nicholas Kalashnikoff
- The Light at Tern Rock : Julia Sauer
- The Apple and the Arrow : Mary & Conrad Buff
☆ Secret of the Andes : Ann Nolan Clark [1953]
- Charlotte's Web : E. B. White
- Moccasin Trail : Eloise Jarvis McGraw
- Red Sails to Capri : Ann Weil
- The Bears on Hemlock Mountain : Alice Dalgliesh
- Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 : Genevieve Foster
☆ ...And Now Miguel : Joseph Krumgold [1954]
- All Alone : Claire Huchet Bishop
- Shadrach : Meindert Dejong
- Hurry Home, Candy : Meindert Dejong
- Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot : Clara Ingram Judson
- Magic Maize : Mary & Conrad Buff
☆ The Wheel on the School : Meindert DeJong [1955]
- Courage of Sarah Noble : Alice Dalgliesh
- Banner In The Sky : James Ullman
☆ Carry On, Mr. Bowditch : Jean Lee Latham [1956]
- The Secret River : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- The Golden Name Day : Jennie Lindquist
- Men, Microscopes, and Living Things : Katherine Shippen
☆ Miracles on Maple Hill : Virginia Sorensen [1957]
- Old Yeller : Fred Gipson
- The House of Sixty Fathers : Meindert DeJong
- Mr. Justice Holmes : Clara Ingram Judson
- The Corn Grows Ripe : Dorothy Rhoads
- Black Fox of Lorne : Marguerite de Angeli
☆ Rifles for Watie : Harold Keith [1958]
- The Horsecatcher : Mari Sandoz
- Gone-Away Lake : Elizabeth Enright
- The Great Wheel : Robert Lawson
- Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle : Leo Gurko
☆ The Witch of Blackbird Pond : Elizabeth George Speare [1959]
- The Family Under The Bridge : Natalie Savage Carlson
- Along Came A Dog : Meindert Dejong
- Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa : Francis Kalnay
- The Perilous Road : William O. Steele
☆ Onion John : Joseph Krumgold [1960]
- My Side of the Mountain : Jean Craighead George
- America Is Born: A History for Peter : Gerald W. Johnson
- The Gammage Cup : Carol Kendall
