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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