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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