The Newbery Award
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.
YEAR |
AUTHOR |
TITLE |
LOCATION |
| 2011 | Clare Vanderpool | Moon Over Manifest | |
| 2010 | Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me | Juv. PZ 7.S80857 W4 2009 |
| 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 |
