The Newbery
Medal was named for
eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It 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.
2007 Newbery Awards
Honor Books
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord
2006 Newbery Awards
Honor Books
Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
2005 Newbery Awards
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata--Winner!
Honor Books
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
2004
Newbery Awards
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo--Winner!
Honor Books
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
2003
Newbery Awards
Crispin:
The Cross of Lead by Avi--Winner!
Honor Books
The
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Pictures
of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
A
Corner of the Universe by Anne M. Martin
2002
A
Single Shard by Linda Sue Park--Winner!
Honor
Books
Everything
on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver:
A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001
A
Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck--Winner!
Honor
Books
Because
of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Hope
Was Here by Joan Bauer
Joey
Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
The
Wanderer by Sharon Creech
2000
Bud,
Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis--Winner!
Honor
Books
Getting
Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
26
Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
Our
Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
1999
Holes by Louis Sachar--Winner!
Honor
Book
A
Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
1998
Out
of the Dust by Karen Hesse--Winner!
Honor
Books
Ella
Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Lily's
Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
1997
The
View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg--Winner!
Honor
Books
A
Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
The
Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
The
Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Belle
Prater's Boy by Ruth White
1996
The
Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman--Winner!
Honor
Books
What
Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The
Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda's
Genius by Carol Fenner
The
Great Fire by Jim Murphy
1995
Walk
Two Moons by Sharon Creech--Winner!
Honor
Books
Catherine,
Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The
Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
1994
The
Giver by Lois Lowry--Winner!
Honor
Books
Crazy
Lady
by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's
Gate
by Laurence Yep
Eleanor
Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
1993
Missing
May
by Cynthia Rylant--Winner!
Honor
Books
What
Hearts by Bruce Brooks
The
Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia
McKissack
Somewhere
in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
1992
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds
Naylor--Winner!
Honor
Books
Nothing
but the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi
The
Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell
Freedman
1991
Maniac
Magee by Jerry Spinelli--Winner!
Honor
Book
The
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
1990
Number
the Stars by Lois Lowry--Winner!
Honor
Books
Afternoon
of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
Shabanu,
Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The
Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
1989
Joyful
Noise: Poems of Two Voices by Paul Fleischman--Winner!
Honor
Books
In
the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia
Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Dean
Myers
1988
Lincoln:
A Photobiography by Russell Freedman--Winner!
Honor
Books
After
the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987
The
Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman--Winner!
Honor
Books
A
Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
On
My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Volcano:
The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia
Lauber
1986
Sarah,
Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan--Winner!
Honor
Books
Commodore
Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
1985
The
Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley--Winner!
Honor
Books
Like
Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
The
Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed
Cat
by Paula Fox
1984
Dear
Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
A
Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
Sugaring
Time
by Kathryn Lasky
The
Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
1983
Dicey's
Song
by Cynthia Voigt--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Doctor
De Soto by William Steig
Graven
Images by Paul Fleischman
Homesick:
My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Sweet
Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
1982
A
Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard--Winner!
Honor
Books
Ramona
Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Upon
the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
1981
Jacob
Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Fledgling by Jane Langton
A
Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
1980
A
Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 by Joan Blos--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Road from Home by David Kherdian
1979
The
Westing Game by Ellen Raskin--Winner!
Honor
Book
The
Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1978
Bridge
to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson--Winner!
Honor
Books
Ramona
and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao:
An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
1977
Roll
of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor--Winner!
Honor
Books
Abel's
Island by William Steig
A
String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
1976
The
Grey King by Susan Cooper--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
1975
M.C.
Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton--Winner!
Honor
Books
Figgs
and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
My
Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The
Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Philip
Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene
1974
The
Slave Dancer by Paula Fox--Winner!
Honor
Book
The
Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
1973
Julie
of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George--Winner!
Honor
Books
Frog
and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
The
Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
The
Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1972
Mrs.
Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien--Winner!
Honor
Books
Incident
at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
The
Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
The
Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Annie
and the Old One by Miska Miles
The
Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1971
Summer
of the Swans by Betsy Byars--Winner!
Honor
Books
Knee
Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress
from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Sing
Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
1970
Sounder by William H.
Armstrong--Winner!
Honor
Books
Our
Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
The
Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord
Moore
Journey
Outside by Mary Q. Steele
1969
The
High King by Lloyd Alexander--Winner!
Honor
Books
To
Be a Slave by Julius Lester
When
Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1968
From
the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg--Winner!
Honor
Books
Jennifer,
Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L.
Konigsburg
The
Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
The
Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The
Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1967
Up
a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
Zlateh
the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The
Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik
1966
I,
Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevio--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
The
Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
The
Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
1965
Shadow
of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska--Winner!
Honor
Book
Across
Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
1964
It's
Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville--Winner!
Honor
Books
Rascal by Sterling North
The
Loner by Ester Wier
1963
A
Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle--Winner!
Honor
Books
Thistle
and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas,
pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
Men
of Athens by Olivia Coolidge
1962
The
Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare--Winner!
Honor
Books
Frontier
Living by Edwin Tunis
The
Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Belling
the Tiger by Mary Stolz
1961
Island
of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell--Winner!
Honor
Books
America
Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald Johnson
Old
Ramon by Jack Schaefer
The
Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson)
1960
Onion
John
by Joseph Krumgold--Winner!
Honor
Books
My
Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
America
Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald Johnson
The
Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
1959
The
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
Along
Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong
Chucaro:
Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
The
Perilous Road by William O. Steele
1958
Rifles
for Watie by Harold Keith--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
Gone-Away
Lake
by Elizabeth Enright
The
Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
Tom
Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko
1957
Miracle
on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen--Winner!
Honor
Books
Old
Yeller by Fred Gipson
The
House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
Mr.
Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
The
Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
The
Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
1956
Carry
On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The
Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
Men,
Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
1955
The
Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong--Winner!
Honor
Books
Courage
of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner
in the Sky by James Ullman
1954
And
Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold--Winner!
Honor
Books
All
Alone by Claire H. Bishop
Shadrach by Meindert
DeJong
Hurry
Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
Theodore
Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
Magic
Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff
1953
Secret
of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark--Winner!
Honor
Books
Charlotte's
Web
by E.B. White
Moccasin
Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Red
Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
The
Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
Birthdays
of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster
1952
Ginger
Pye
by Eleanor Estes--Winner!
Honor
Books
Americans
Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
Minn
of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
The
Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The
Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
The
Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff
1951
Amos
Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates--Winner!
Honor
Books
Better
Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi,
Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
Abraham
Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
The
Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish
1950
The
Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli--Winner!
Honor
Books
Tree
of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
The
Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
Kildee
House by Rutherford Montgomery
George
Washington by Genevieve Foster
Sound
of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter and Marion
Havighurst
1949
King
of the Wind by Marguerite Henry--Winner!
Honor
Books
Seabird by Holling C.
Holling
Daughter
of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
My
Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Story
of the Negro by Arna Bontemps
1948
The
Twenty-One Balloons by William Pne du Bois--Winner!
Honor
Books
Pancakes-Paris by Claire H.
Bishop
Li
Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
The
Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine
Besterman
The
Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold
Courlander
Misty
of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
1947
Miss
Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey--Winner!
Honor
Books
Wonderful
Year
by Nancy Barnes
Big
Tree
by Mary and Conrad Buff
The
Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
The
Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
The
Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett
1946
Strawberry
Girl
by Lois Lenski--Winner!
Honor
Books
Justin
Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
The
Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
Bhimsa,
the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
New
Found World by Katherine Shippen
1945
Rabbit
Hill
by Robert Lawson--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The
Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
Abraham
Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
Lone
Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Easton
1944
Johnny
Tremain by Esther Forbes--Winner!
Honor
Books
These
Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fog
Magic by Julia Sauer
Rufus
M.
by Eleanor Estes
Mountain
Born
by Elizabeth Yates
1943
Adam
of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Have
You Seen Tom Thumb by Mabel Leigh Hunt
1942
The
Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds--Winner!
Honor
Books
Little
Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
George
Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
Indian
Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
Down
Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin
1941
Call
it Courage by Armstrong Sperry--Winner!
Honor
Books
Blue
Willow by Doris Gates
Young
Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
The
Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen by Anna Gertrude
Hall
1940
Daniel
Boone by James Daugherty--Winner!
Honor
Books
The
Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Runner
of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
By
the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Boy
with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader