2009 Nominees
| Golden and Grey : an Unremarkable Boy and a Rather Remarkable Ghost | Louise Arnold |
| Shakespeare's Secret | Elise Broach |
| Ask Me No Questions | Marina Budhos |
| Blood on the River | Elisa Carbone |
| Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko |
| Free Baseball | Sue Corbett |
| MVP - Magellan Project | Douglas Evans |
| Eager | Helen Fox |
| Homework Machine | Dan Gutman |
| Day of Tears | Julius Lester |
| Gossamer | Lois Lowry |
| Heat | Mike Lupica |
| Dairy Queen | Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
| Wolf Brother | Michelle Paver |
| The Schwa Was Here | Neal Shusterman |
| Case of the Missing Marquess | Nancy Springer |
| Close Encounters of a Third-World Kind | Jennifer J. Stewart |
| Three Good Deeds | Vivian Vande Velde |
| Uglies | Scott Westerfeld |
| Elsewhere | Gabrielle Zevin |