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Newbery Medal Winners

The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

2010 When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Children’s Books) J FIC Ste
2009 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins) Y FIC Gai
2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village Schlitz (Candlewick Press) Y FIC Sch
2007 The Higher Power of Lucky Patron (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) J FIC Pat
2006 Criss cross Perkins (Greenwillow Books) Y FIC Per
2005 Kira-Kira Kadohata (Atheneum Books) J FIC Kad
2004 The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread DiCamillo (Candlewick Press) Y FIC Dic
2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead Avi (Hyperion) Y FIC Avi
2002 A Single Shard Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) Y FIC Par
2001 A Year Down Yonder Peck (Dial) Y FIC Pec
2000 Bud, Not Buddy Curtis (Delacorte) Y FIC Cur
1999 Holes Sachar (Farrar) Y FIC Sac
1998 Out of the Dust Hesse (Scholastic) Y FIC Hes
1997 The View From Saturday Konigsburg (Atheneum) Y FIC Kon
1996 The Midwife's Apprentice Cushman (Clarion) Y FIC Cus
1995 Walk Two Moons Creech (HarperCollins) Y FIC Cre
1994 The Giver Lowry (Houghton Mifflin) Y SCF Low
1993 Missing May Rylant (Orchard) Y FIC Ryl
1992 Shiloh Naylor (Atheneum) Y FIC Nay
1991 Maniac Magee Spinelli (Little Brown) Y FIC Spi
1990 Number the Stars Lowry (Houghton Mifflin) Y SCF Low
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices Fleischman (Harper) J 811.54 Fl
1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography Freedman (Ticknor and Fields) J 921 L638f
1987 The Whipping Boy Fleischman (Greenwillow) Y FIC Fle
1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall MacLachlan (Harper) J FIC Mac
1985 The Hero and the Crown McKinley (Greenwillow) Y FIC Mac
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary (Morrow) J FIC Cle
1983 Dicey's Song Voigt (Atheneum) Y FIC Voi
1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Willard (HarBrace) J 811.54 Wi
1981 Jacob Have I Loved Paterson (Crowell) Y FIC Pat
1980 Gathering of Days Blos (Scribner) Y FIC Blo
1979 The Westing Game Raskin (Dutton) Y FIC Ras
1978 Bridge to Terabithia Paterson (Crowell) Y FIC Pat
1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor (Dial) Y FIC Tay
1976 Grey King Cooper (Atheneum) Y FIC Coo
1975 M.C. Higgins, the Great Hamilton (Macmillan) Y FIC Ham
1974 The Slave Dancer Fox (Bradbury) Y FIC Fox
1973 Julie of the Wolves George (Harper) Y FIC Geo
1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh O'Brien (Atheneum) J FIC Obr
1971 Summer of the Swans Byars (Viking) Y FIC Bya
1970 Sounder Armstrong (Harper) Y FIC Arm
1969 The High King Alexander (Holt) Y FIC Ale
1968 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Konigsburg (Atheneum) J FIC Kon
1967 Up a Road Slowly Hunt (Follett) Y FIC Hun
1966 I, Juan De Pareja Trevino (Farrar) Y FIC Tre
1965 Shadow of a Bull Wojciechowska (Atheneum) J FIC Woj
1964 It's Like This, Cat Neville (Harper) Y FIC Nev
1963 A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle (Farrar) Y FIC Len
1962 The Bronze Bow Speare (Houghton Mifflin) Y FIC Spe
1961 Island of the Blue Dolphin O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin) Y FIC Ode
1960 Onion John Krumgold (Crowell) Y FIC Kru
1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Speare (Houghton Mifflin) Y FIC Spe
1958 Rifles for Watie Keith (Crowell) Y FIC Kei
1957 Miracles on Maple Hill Sorensen (Harcourt) J FIC Sor
1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Latham (Houghton Mifflin) J 921 B6731
1955 The Wheel on the School DeJong (Harper) Y FIC Dej
1954 And Now Miguel Krumgold (Crowell) Y FIC Kru
1953 Secret of the Andes Clark (Viking) J FIC Cla
1952 Ginger Pye Estes (Harcourt) J FIC Est
1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates (Dutton) J 921 F799y
1950 The Door in the Wall DeAngeli (Doubleday) J FIC Dea
1949 King of the Wind Henry (Rand McNally) Y FIC Hen
1948 The Twenty-one Balloons Du Bois (Viking) J FIC Deb
1947 Miss Hickory Bailey (Viking) J FIC Bai
1946 Strawberry Girl Lenski (Lippincott) J FIC Len
1945 Rabbit Hill Lawson (Viking) J FIC Law
1944 Johnny Tremain Forbes (Houghton Mifflin) Y FIC For
1943 Adam of the Road Gray (Viking) Y FIC Gra
1942 The Matchlock Gun Edmonds (Dodd Mead) J FIC Edm
1941 Call it Courage Sperry (Macmillan) Y FIC Spe
1940 Daniel Boone Daugherty (Viking) J 921 B644d
1939 Thimble Summer Enright (Holt) J FIC Enr
1938 The White Stag Seredy (Viking) Y FIC Ser
1937 Roller Skates Sawyer (Viking) Y FIC Saw
1936 Caddie Woodlawn Brink (Macmillan) Y FIC Bri
1935 Dobry Shannon (Viking) J FIC Sha
1934 Invincible Louisa Meigs (Little Brown) J 921 Al192M
1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Lewis (Holt) J FIC Lew
1932 Waterless Mountain Armer (McKay) J FIC Arm
1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven Coatsworth (Macmillan) J FIC Coa
1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years Field (Macmillan) J FIC Fie
1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow Kelly (Macmillan) J M Kel
1928 Gay-Neck, The Story of A Pigeon Mukerj (Dutton) Y FIC Muk
1927 Smoky, The Cowhorse James (Scribner) Y FIC Jam
1926 Shen of the Sea Chrisman (Dutton) J FIC Chr
1925 Tales from Silver Lands Finger (Doubleday) J 398 Fi
1924 The Dark Frigate Hawes (Little Brown) Y FIC Haw
1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Lofting (Lippincott) J FIC Lof

For more information about this award visit the Newbery Medal Web page.

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