The Newbery Medal is awarded in January of each year by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the writer of the best American children’s book of the previous year. It is named after the 18th-century British bookseller John Newbery.
More information about the Newbery Medal is available on the American Library Association’s web site.
2008 – Good masters! Sweet ladies! : voices from a medieval village, by Laura Amy Schlitz
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 : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread, 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 : Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, by Nancy Willard
1981 – Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
1980 – A Gathering of Days : A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832, 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 Watie, 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 DeJong
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 Corneila 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 Dhan 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 Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting
1922 – The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik Willem van Loon
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