| TITLE | AUTHOR | BL | POINTS |
| Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear | Lensey Namioka | 4.60 | 3.00 |
| Year Down Yonder, A | Richard Peck | 4.50 | 4.00 |
| Year of Miss Agnes, The | Kirkpatrick Hill | 4.50 | 3.00 |
| Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, The | Gloria Houston | 4.20 | 0.50 |
| Yeh-Shen | Ai-Ling Louie | 4.50 | 1.00 |
| Yolonda's Genius | Carol Fenner | 4.30 | 6.00 |
| You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown | Paula Danziger | 3.50 | 1.00 |
| You Can't Scare Me | R.L. Stine | 3.50 | 3.00 |
| You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman | Claudia Mills | 4.80 | 4.00 |
| Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Elizabeth Lewis | 6.70 | 11.00 |
| Young Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter | Anne Benjamin | 3.30 | 0.50 |
| Young Man and the Sea, The | Rodman Philbrick | 4.50 | 5.00 |
| Your Skin Weighs More Than Your Brain: And Other Freaky...Parts | Barbara Seuling | 5.20 | 0.50 |