The Newbery Medal
Today is 11/21/2008
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.
2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by
Laura Amy Schlitz (J 940.1/SCH)
2007 The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (J/PAT)
2006 Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (YA/PER)
2005 Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (J KAD)
2004 The Tale of Despereaux: the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some
Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (J/DIC)
2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (YA/AVI)
2002 A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (YA/PAR)
2001 A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (YA/PEC)
2000 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (J/CUR)
1999 Holes by Louis Sachar (YA/SAC)
1998 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (J/HES)
1997 The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg (J/KON)
1996 The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman (YA/CUS)
1995 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (YA/CRE)
1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry (YA/LOW)
1993 Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (J/RYL)
1992 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (J/NAY)
1991 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (J/SPI)
1990 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (J/LOW)
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
(J 811.54/FLE)
1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (J 920/Lincoln)
1987 The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (J/FLE)
1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (J/MAC)
1985 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (YA/MCK)
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (J/CLE)
1983 Dicey’s Song by Cynthis Voigt (YA/VOI)
1982 A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced
Travelers by Nancy Willard (J 811/WIL)
1981 Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (YA/PAT)
1980 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 by
Joan W. Blos (J/BLO)
1979 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (J/RAS)
1978 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (J/PAT)
1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (J/TAY)
1976 The Grey King by Susan Cooper (J/COO)
1975 M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (YA/HAM)
1974 The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (J/FOX)
1973 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (J/GEO)
1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien (J/OBR)
1971 Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (J/BYA)
1970 Sounder by William H. Armstrong (J/ARM)
1969 The High King by Lloyd Alexander (J/ALE)
1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L.
Konigsburg (J/KON)
1967 Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (J/HUN)
1966 I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (J/TRE)
1965 Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (J/WOJ)
1964 It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (J/NEV)
1963 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (J/LEN)
1962 The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (J/SPE)
1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell (J/ODE)
1960 Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (J/KRU)
1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (J/SPE)
1958 Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (J/KEI)
1957 Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (J/SOR)
1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (J 920/Bowditch)
1955 The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (J/DE)
1954 …And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (J/KRU)
1953 Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (J/CLA)
1952 Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (J/EST)
1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (J 920/Fortune)
1950 The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (J/DEA)
1949 King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (J/HEN)
1948 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois (J/DUB)
1947 Miss Hickory by Carolyn Serwin Bailey (J/BAI)
1946 Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (J/LEN)
1945 Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (J/LAW)
1944 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (J/FOR)
1943 Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (J/GRA)
1942 The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (J/EDM)
1941 Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (J/SPE)
1940 Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (J 920/Boone)
1939 Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (J/ENR)
1938 The White Stag by Kate Seredy (J/SER)
1937 Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (J/SAW)
1936 Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (J/BRI)
1935 Dobry by Monica Shannon (J/SHA)
1934 Invincible Louise: The Story of the Author of Little Women by
Cornelia Meigs (J 920/Alcott, L)
1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (J/LEW)
1932 Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (J/ARM)
1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (J/COA)
1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (J/FIE)
1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (J/KEL)
1928 Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (J/MUK)
1927 Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (J/JAM)
1926 Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (J/CHR)
1925 Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (J 398/FIN)
1924 The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (J/HAW)
1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (J/LOF)
1922 The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (J 909/VAN)