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The Newbery Medal

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.

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

 

 
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