John Newbery Medal Winners
The Newbery Medal, named after eighteenth-century British bookseller John
Newbery, is awarded each year by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution
to American literature for children. Here you will find a list of the winning titles from 1922 to the present.
Official Newbery Medal Winners, 1922-Present
| DATE |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
CALL # |
| 2012 |
Dead End in Norvelt |
Jack Gantos |
J GANTO |
| 2011 |
Moon Over Manifest |
Clare Vanderpool |
J VANDE |
| 2010 |
When You Reach Me |
Rebecca Stead |
J STEAD |
| 2009 |
The Graveyard Book |
Neil Gaiman |
J GAIMA |
| 2008 |
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village |
Laura Amy Schlitz |
J812 SCHLI |
| 2007 |
The Higher Power of Lucky |
Susan Patron |
J PATRO |
| 2006 |
Criss Cross |
Lynne Rae Perkins |
J PERKI |
| 2005 |
Kira-Kira |
Cynthia Kadohata |
J |
| 2004 |
The Tale of Despereaux |
Kate DiCamillo |
J |
| 2003 |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
Avi |
J |
| 2002 |
A Single Shard |
Linda Sue Park |
J |
| 2001 |
A Year Down Yonder |
Richard Peck |
J |
| 2000 |
Bud, Not Buddy |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
J |
| 1999 |
Holes |
Louis Sachar |
J |
| 1998 |
Out of the Dust |
Karen Hesse |
J |
| 1997 |
The View from Saturday |
E.L. Konigsburg |
J |
| 1996 |
The Midwife's Apprentice |
Karen Cushman |
J |
| 1995 |
Walk Two Moons |
Sharon Creech |
J |
| 1994 |
The Giver |
Lois Lowry |
J |
| 1993 |
Missing May |
Cynthia Rylant |
J |
| 1992 |
Shiloh |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
J |
| 1991 |
Maniac Magee |
Jerry Spinelli |
J |
| 1990 |
Number the Stars |
Lois Lowry |
J |
| 1989 |
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices |
Paul Fleischman |
J811 |
| 1988 |
Lincoln: A Photobiography |
Russell Freedman |
JB L638FRE |
| 1987 |
The Whipping Boy |
Sid Fleischman |
J |
| 1986 |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
Patricia MacLachlan |
J |
| 1985 |
The Hero and the Crown |
Robin McKinley |
J |
| 1984 |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
Beverly Cleary |
J |
| 1983 |
Dicey's Song |
Cynthia Voigt |
J |
| 1982 |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers |
Nancy Willard |
J811 |
| 1981 |
Jacob Have I Loved |
Katherine Paterson |
J |
| 1980 |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 |
Joan W. Blos |
J |
| 1979 |
The Westing Game |
Ellen Raskin |
J |
| 1978 |
Bridge to Terabithia |
Katherine Paterson |
J |
| 1977 |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Mildred D. Taylor |
J |
| 1976 |
The Grey King |
Susan Cooper |
J |
| 1975 |
M. C. Higgins, the Great |
Virginia Hamilton |
J |
| 1974 |
The Slave Dancer |
Paula Fox |
J |
| 1973 |
Julie of the Wolves |
Jean Craighead George |
J |
| 1972 |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
Robert C. O'Brien |
J |
| 1971 |
Summer of the Swans |
Betsy Byars |
J |
| 1970 |
Sounder |
William H. Armstrong |
J |
| 1969 |
The High King |
Lloyd Alexander |
J |
| 1968 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
E. L. Konigsburg |
J |
| 1967 |
Up a Road Slowly |
Irene Hunt |
J |
| 1966 |
I, Juan de Pareja |
Elizabeth Borton de Treviño |
J |
| 1965 |
Shadow of a Bull |
Maia Wojciechowska |
J |
| 1964 |
It's Like This, Cat |
Emily Neville |
J |
| 1963 |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Madeleine L'Engle |
J |
| 1962 |
The Bronze Bow |
Elizabeth George Speare |
J |
| 1961 |
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
Scott O'Dell |
J |
| 1960 |
Onion John |
Joseph Krumgold |
J |
| 1959 |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
Elizabeth George Speare |
J |
| 1958 |
Rifles for Watie |
Harold Keith |
J |
| 1957 |
Miracles on Maple Hill |
Virginia Sorensen |
J |
| 1956 |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch |
Jean Lee Latham |
J LATHA |
| 1955 |
The Wheel on the School |
Meindert DeJong |
J |
| 1954 |
...And Now Miguel |
Joseph Krumgold |
J |
| 1953 |
Secret of the Andes |
Ann Nolan Clark |
J |
| 1952 |
Ginger Pye |
Eleanor Estes |
J |
| 1951 |
Amos Fortune, Free Man |
Elizabeth Yates |
JB F779YA |
| 1950 |
The Door in the Wall |
Marguerite de Angeli |
J |
| 1949 |
King of the Wind |
Marguerite Henry |
J |
| 1948 |
The Twenty-One Balloons |
William Pène du Bois |
J |
| 1947 |
Miss Hickory |
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
J |
| 1946 |
Strawberry Girl |
Lois Lenski |
J |
| 1945 |
Rabbit Hill |
Robert Lawson |
J |
| 1944 |
Johnny Tremain |
Esther Forbes |
J |
| 1943 |
Adam of the Road |
Elizabeth Janet Gray |
J |
| 1942 |
The Matchlock Gun |
Walter Edmonds |
J |
| 1941 |
Call It Courage |
Armstrong Sperry |
J |
| 1940 |
Daniel Boone |
James Daugherty |
JB B644D |
| 1939 |
Thimble Summer |
Elizabeth Enright |
J |
| 1938 |
The White Stag |
Kate Seredy |
J398.2 |
| 1937 |
Roller Skates |
Ruth Sawyer |
J |
| 1936 |
Caddie Woodlawn |
Carol Ryrie Brink |
J |
| 1935 |
Dobry |
Monica Shannon |
J |
| 1934 |
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women |
Cornelia Meigs |
JB AL19M |
| 1933 |
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze |
Elizabeth Lewis |
J |
| 1932 |
Waterless Mountain |
Laura Adams Armer |
J |
| 1931 |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven |
Elizabeth Coatsworth |
J |
| 1930 |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years |
Rachel Field |
J |
| 1929 |
The Trumpeter of Krakow |
Eric P. Kelly |
J |
| 1928 |
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon |
Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
J |
| 1927 |
Smoky, the Cowhorse |
Will James |
J |
| 1926 |
Shen of the Sea |
Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
J |
| 1925 |
Tales from Silver Lands |
Charles Finger |
J398.2 |
| 1924 |
The Dark Frigate |
Charles Hawes |
J |
| 1923 |
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle |
Hugh Lofting |
J |
| 1922 |
The Story of Mankind |
Hendrik Willem van Loon |
J909 |
You might also want to check out another version of the Newbery winners list, the one everyone really wants...the awards, arranged--not by year--but by quality: what's really the best
Newbery. This completely biased, non-scientific Newbery Book Discussion Group list can be found here.
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