2012 Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
The Newbery Medal
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The Newbery Medal was established in 1922 and is awarded yearly to recognize an author for a distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award is named for John Newbery, an 18th-century British bookseller.
2011 Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
2010 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
2009 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2008 Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village, by Laura Amy Schlitz ; illustrated by Robert Byrd
2007 The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
2006 Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
2005 Kira - Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2004 The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
2002 A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
2001 A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
2000 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
1999 Holes by Louis Sachar
1998 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1997 The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
1996 The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
1995 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry
1993 Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
1992 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1991 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1990 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
1987 The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1985 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
1983 Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard
1981 Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1980 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal by Joan W. Blos
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1979
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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin | |
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1978
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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson | |
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1977
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor | |
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1976
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The Grey King by Susan Cooper | |
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1975
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M. C. Higgins, the Greatby Virginia Hamilton | |
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1974
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The Slave Dancerby Paula Fox | |
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1973
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Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George | |
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1972
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien | |
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1971
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Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars | |
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1970
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Sounder by William H. Armstrong | |
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1969
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The High King by Lloyd Alexander | |
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1968
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg | |
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1967
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Up a Road Slowlyby Irene Hunt | |
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1966
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I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino | |
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1965
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Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska | |
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1964
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It's like this, Cat by Emily Neville | |
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1963
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle | |
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1962
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The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare | |
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1961
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Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell | |
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1960
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Onion John by Joseph Krumgold | |
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1959
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare | |
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1958
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Rifles for Waite by Harold Keith | |
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1957
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Miracles on Maple Hillby Virginia Sorenson | |
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1956
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditchby Jean Lee Latham | |
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1955
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The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong | |
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1954
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...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold | |
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1953
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Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark | |
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1952
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Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes | |
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1951
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Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates | |
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1950
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The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli | |
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1949
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King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry | |
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1948
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The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois | |
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1947
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Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | |
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1946
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Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski | |
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1945
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Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson | |
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1944
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Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes | |
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1943
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Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
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1942
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The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds | |
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1941
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Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry | |
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1940
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Daniel Boone by James Daugherty | |
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1939
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Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright | |
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1938
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The White Stag by Kate Seredy | |
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1937
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Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer | |
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1936
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Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink | |
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1935
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Dobry by Monica Shannon | |
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1934
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Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs | |
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1933
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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis | |
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1932
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Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer | |
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1931
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The Cat Who Went to Heavenby Elizabeth Coatsworth | |
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1930
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Hitty,Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field | |
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1929
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The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly | |
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1928
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Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dahn Gopal Mukerji | |
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1927
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Smoky,the Cowhorse by Will James | |
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1926
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Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman | |
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1925
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Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger | |
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1924
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The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes | |
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1923
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The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting | |
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1922
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The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon |