The Newbery Award
The Newbery Medal, named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery, is an annual award given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American children's literature published during the preceding year. The Medal is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association.
YEAR |
AUTHOR |
TITLE |
LOCATION |
| 2009 | Neil Gaiman | The graveyard book | Juv. PZ 7.G1273 G7 2008 |
| 2008 | Laura Amy Schlitz | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | Juv. PS 3619.C43 C55 2007 |
| 2007 | Susan Patron | The Higher Power of Lucky | Juv. PZ 7.P27565 H53 2006 |
| 2006 | Lynne Rae Perkins | Criss Cross | Juv. PZ 7.P4313 C7 2005 |
| 2005 | Cynthia Kadohata | Kira Kira | Juv. PZ 7.K1166 K5 2004 |
| 2004 | Kate DiCamillo | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | Juv. PZ 8.D525 T34 2003 |
| 2003 | Avi | Crispin: the Cross of Lead | Juv. PZ 7.A953 C7 2002 |
| 2002 | Linda Sue Park | A Single Shard | Juv. PZ 7.P22115 S5 2001 |
| 2001 | Richard Peck | A Year Down Yonder | Juv. PZ 7.P338 Y5 2000 |
| 2000 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy | Juv. PZ 7 .C94137 B8 1999 |
| 1999 | Louis Sachar | Holes | Juv. PZ 7 .S1185 H65 1998 |
| 1998 | Karen Hesse | Out of the Dust | Juv. PZ 7 .H4364 O97 1997 |
| 1997 | E.L. Konigsburg | The View From Saturday | Juv. PZ 7 .K8352 V53 1996 |
| 1996 | Karen Cushman | The Midwife's Apprentice | Juv. PZ 7 .C962 M5 1995 |
| 1995 | Sharon Creech | Walk Two Moons | Juv. PZ 7 .C8615 W3 1994 |
| 1994 | Lois Lowry | The Giver | Juv. PZ 7 .L9673 G5 1993 |
| 1993 | Cynthia Rylant | Missing May | Juv. PZ 7 .R982 M5 1992 |
| 1992 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Shiloh | Juv. PZ 7 .N24 S4 1991 |
| 1991 | Jerry Spinelli | Maniac Magee | Juv. PZ 7 .S75663 M3 1990 |
| 1990 | Lois Lowry | Number the Stars | Juv. PZ 7 .L9673 N8 1989 |
| 1989 | Paul Fleischman | Joyful Noise: Poems For Two Voices | Juv. PS 3556 .L42268 J69 1988 |
| 1988 | Russell Freedman | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Juv. E 457.905 .F73 1087 |
| 1987 | Sid Fleischman | The Whipping Boy | Juv. PZ 7 .F5992 W4 1986 |
| 1986 | Patricia MacLachlan | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Juv. PZ 7 .M2225 S3 1985 |
| 1985 | Robin McKinley | The Hero and the Crown | Juv. PZ 7 .M1988 H4 1984 |
| 1984 | Beverly Cleary | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Juv. PZ 7 .C5792 D4 1983 |
| 1983 | Cynthia Voight | Dicey's Song | Juv. PZ 7 .V874 D5 1982 |
| 1982 | Nancy Willard | A Visit To William Blake's Inn | Juv. PS 3573 .I444 V5 |
| 1981 | Katherine Paterson | Jacob Have I Loved | Juv. PZ 7 .P273 J3 1980 |
| 1980 | Joan W. Blos | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32: A Novel | Juv. PZ 7 .B6237 G3 |
| 1979 | Ellen Raskin | The Westing Game | Juv. PZ 7 .R1817 W4 1978 |
| 1978 | Katherine Paterson | Bridge To Terabithia | Juv. PZ 7 .P273 B7 |
| 1977 | Mildred D. Taylor | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Juv. PZ 7 .T21723 R6 |
| 1976 | Susan Cooper | The Grey King | Juv. PZ 7 .C7878 G7 |
| 1975 | Virginia Hamilton | M. C. Higgins, the Great | Juv. PZ 7 .H1828 M2 |
| 1974 | Paula Fox | The Slave Dancer; A Novel | Juv. PZ 7 .F838 S5 |
| 1973 | Jean C. George | Julie of the Wolves | Juv. PZ 7 .G2933 J8 |
| 1972 | Robert C. O'Brien | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Juv. PZ 10.3 .O19 M7 |
| 1971 | Betsy Cromer Byars | The Summer of the Swans | Juv. PZ 7 .B98396 S8 |
| 1970 | William H. Armstrong | Sounder | Juv. PZ 7 .A7339 S6 |
| 1969 | Lloyd Alexander | The High King | Juv. PZ 7 .A3774 H4 |
| 1968 | E. L. Konigsburg | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Juv. PZ 7 .K8352 F7 |
| 1967 | Irene Hunt | Up A Road Slowly | Juv. PZ 7 .H9156 U6 |
| 1966 | Elizabeth Borton de Trevino | I, Juan De Pareja | Juv. PZ 7 .T7327 I12 |
| 1965 | Maia Wojciechowska | Shadow of A Bull | Juv. PS 3573 .O43 S48 |
| 1964 | Emily Cheney Neville | It's Like This, Cat | Juv. PZ 7 .N462 I8 |
| 1963 | Madeleine L'Engle | A Wrinkle In Time | Juv. PZ 7 .L5385 W7 |
| 1962 | Elizabeth G. Speare | The Bronze Bow | Juv. PZ 7 .S7376 B7 |
| 1961 | Scott O'Dell | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Juv. PZ 7 .O237 I8 |
| 1960 | Joseph Krumgold | Onion John | Juv. PZ 7 .K946 O5 |
| 1959 | Elizabeth G. Speare | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Juv. PZ 7 .S7376 W5 |
| 1958 | Harold Keith | Rifles For Watie | Juv. PZ 7 .K255 R5 |
| 1957 | Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen | Miracles On Maple Hill | Juv. PZ 7 .S72 M5 |
| 1956 | Jean Lee Latham | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Juv. PZ 7 .L348 C3 |
| 1955 | Meindert De Jong | The Wheel On the School | Juv. PZ 7 .D3675 W4 |
| 1954 | Joseph Krumgold | ...And Now Miguel | Juv. PZ 7 .K946 A5 |
| 1953 | Ann Nolan Clark | Secret of the Andes | Juv. PZ 7 .C5296 S4 |
| 1952 | Eleanor Estes | Ginger Pye | Juv. PZ 7 .E749 G5 |
| 1951 | Elizabeth Yates | Amos Fortune, Free Man | Juv. E 185.97 .F73 Y3 |
| 1950 | Marguerite De Angeli | The Door In the Wall | Juv. PZ 7 .D35 D6 |
| 1949 | Marguerite Henry | King of the Wind | Juv. PZ 10.3 .H43 K5 |
| 1948 | William Pene Du Bois | The Twenty-one Balloons | Juv. PZ 7 .D8527 T9 |
| 1947 | Carolyn S. Bailey | Miss Hickory | Juv. PZ 8.9 .B16 M5 |
| 1946 | Lois Lenski | Strawberry Girl | Juv. PZ 7 .L54 S8 |
| 1945 | Robert Lawson | Rabbit Hill | Juv. PZ 10.3 .L39 R3 |
| 1944 | Esther Forbes | Johnny Tremain | Juv. PZ 7 .F749 J6 |
| 1943 | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Adam of the Road | Juv. PZ 7 .V746 A3 |
| 1942 | Walter Dumaux Edmonds | The Matchlock Gun | Juv. PZ 9 .E515 M3 |
| 1941 | Armstrong Sperry | Call It Courage | Juv. PZ 8.1 .S75 C3 |
| 1940 | James Daugherty | Daniel Boone | Juv. F 454 .B733 |
| 1939 | Elizabeth Enright | Thimble Summer | Juv. PZ 7 .E724 T4 |
| 1938 | Kate Seredy | The White Stag | Juv. PZ 8.1 .S457 W4 |
| 1937 | Ruth Sawyer | Roller Skates | Juv. PZ 7 .S269 R6 |
| 1936 | Carol Ryrie Brink | Caddie Woodlawn | Juv. PZ 7 .B78 C3 |
| 1935 | Monica Shannon | Dobry | Juv. PZ 7 .S529 D6 |
| 1934 | Cornelia Meigs | Invincible Louisa | Juv. PS 1018 .M4 |
| 1933 | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Juv. PZ 7 .L5849 Y6 |
| 1932 | Laura Adams Armer | Waterless Mountain | Juv. PZ 7 .A715 W3 |
| 1931 | Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth | The Cat Who Went To Heaven | Juv. PZ 10.3 .C629 C3 |
| 1930 | Rachel Field | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Juv. PZ 8.9 .F442 H5 |
| 1929 | Eric Philbrook Kelly | The Trumpeter of Krakow | Juv. PZ 3 .K2953 T77 |
| 1928 | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | Gay-Neck, the Story of A Pigeon | Juv. QL 795 .B57 M8 |
| 1927 | Will James | Smoky, the cowhorse | Juv. PZ 10.3 .J275 S6 |
| 1926 | Arthur Bowie Chrisman | Shen of the Sea; Chinese Stories For Children | Juv. PZ 7 .C45 S5 1968 |
| 1925 | Charles Joseph Finger | Tales From Silver Lands | Juv. PZ 8 .F494 T3 |
| 1924 | Charles Boardman Hawes | The Dark Frigate | Juv. PZ 7 .H312 D3 |
| 1923 | Hugh Lofting | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Juv. PZ 7 .L827 V6 |
| 1922 | Hendrik Willem Van Loon | The Story of Mankind | Juv. D 21 .V3 |
