Since the Buckeye Book Award's beginning in 1981, children all over Ohio have nominated for their favorites and then voted on that roster in the following year. To date, there have been a total of 42 winners by many well known authors.
2005
K-2

 Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
by Candace Fleming (Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, 2002)
3-5

 Double Fudge
by Judy Blume (Dutton Children’s Books, 2002)
6-8

 Darkness Before Dawn
by Sharon M. Draper (Simon Pulse, 2001)