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Newbery Medal Award Winners

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.
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Year Winner (Title) Winner (Author/Illus.) Available Books
2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village    Laura Amy Schlitz   n/a 
2007 The Higher Power of Lucky    Patron, Susan   click here 
2006 Criss Cross    Perkins, Lynn Rae   n/a 
2005 Kira-Kira    Kadohata, Cynthia   click here 
2004 The Tale of Despereaux    DiCamillo, Kate   click here 
2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead    Avi   n/a 
2002 A Single Shard    Linda Sue Park   click here 
2001 A Year Down Yonder    Richard Peck   n/a 
2000 Bud, Not Buddy    Christopher Paul Curtis   click here 
1999 Holes    Louis Sachar   click here 
1998 Out of the Dust    Karen Hesse   n/a 
1997 The View from Saturday    E.L. Konigsburg   n/a 
1996 The Midwife's Apprentice    Karen Cushman   click here 
1995 Walk Two Moons    Sharon Creech   n/a 
1994 The Giver    Lois Lowry   n/a 
1993 Missing May    Cynthia Rylant   n/a 
1992 Shiloh    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor   n/a 
1991 Maniac Magee    Jerry Spinelli   n/a 
1990 Number the Stars    Lois Lowry   n/a 
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices    Paul Fleischman Illus. Eric Beddows   n/a 
1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography    Russell Freedman   n/a 
1987 The Whipping Boy    Sid Fleischman Illus. Peter Sis   n/a 
1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall    Patricia MacLachlan   n/a 
1985 The Hero and the Crown    Robin McKinley   n/a 
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw    Beverly Cleary   n/a 
1983 Dicey's Song    Cynthia Voigt   n/a 
1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers    Nancy Willard Illus. Alice and Martin Provensen   n/a 
1981 Jacob Have I Loved    Katherine Paterson   click here 
1980 A Gathering of Days    Joan W. Blos   n/a 
1979 The Westing Game    Ellen Raskin   n/a 
1978 Bridge to Terabithia    Katherine Paterson Illus. Donna Diamond   click here 
1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry    Mildred D. Taylor Illus. Jerry Pinkney   click here 
1976 The Grey King    Susan Cooper Illus. Michael Heslop   n/a 
1975 M. C. Higgins, the Great    Virginia Hamilton   click here 
1974 The Slave Dancer    Paula Fox Illus. Eros Keith   n/a 
1973 Julie of the Wolves    Jean Craighead George Illus. John Schoenherr   n/a 
1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH    Robert C. O'Brien Illus. Zena Bernstein   n/a 
1971 The Summer of the Swans    Betsy Byars Illus. Ted CoConis   n/a 
1970 Sounder    William H. Armstrong Illus. James Barkley   n/a 
1969 The High King    Lloyd Alexander   n/a 
1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler    E.L. Konigsburg   n/a 
1967 Up a Road Slowly    Irene Hunt   n/a 
1966 I, Juan de Pareja    Elizabeth Borton de Trevino   click here 
1965 Shadow of a Bull    Maia Wojciechowska Illus. Alvin Smith   n/a 
1964 It's Like This, Cat    Emily Cheney Neville Illus. Emil Weiss   click here 
1963 A Wrinkle in Time    Madeleine L'Engle   n/a 
1962 The Bronze Bow    Elizabeth George Speare   n/a 
1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins    Scott O'Dell   n/a 
1960 Onion John    Joseph Krumgold Illus. Symeon Shimin   n/a 
1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond    Elizabeth George Speare   n/a 
1958 Rifles for Watie    Harold Keith Illus. Peter Burchard   n/a 
1957 Miracles on Maple Hill    Virginia Sorensen Illus. Beth and Joe Krush   n/a 
1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch    Jean Lee Latham Illus. J.O. Cosgrove   n/a 
1955 The Wheel on the School    Meindert DeJong Illus. Maurice Sendak   click here 
1954   Joseph Krumgold Illus. Jean Charlot   n/a 
1953 Secret of the Andes    Ann Nolan Clark Illus. Jean Charlot   n/a 
1952 Ginger Pye    Eleanor Estes   n/a 
1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man    Elizabeth Yates Illus. Nora S. Unwin   n/a 
1950 The Door in the Wall: Story of Medieval London    Marguerite De Angeli   n/a 
1949 King of the Wind    Marguerite Henry Illus. Wesley Dennis   click here 
1948 The Twenty-One Balloons    William Pierre Du Bois   n/a 
1947 Miss Hickory    Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Illus. Ruth Chrisman Gannett   n/a 
1946 Strawberry Girl    Lois Lenski   n/a 
1945 Rabbit Hill    Robert Lawson   n/a 
1944 Johnny Tremain    Esther Forbes Illus. Lynd Ward   click here 
1943 Adam of the Road    Elizabeth Janet Gray Illus. Robert Lawson   n/a 
1942 The Matchlock Gun    Walter D. Edmonds Illus. Paul Lantz   n/a 
1941 Call It Courage    Armstrong Sperry   n/a 
1940 Daniel Boone    James Daugherty   n/a 
1939 Thimble Summer    Elizabeth Enright   n/a 
1938 The White Stag    Kate Seredy   n/a 
1937 Roller Skates    Ruth Sawyer Illus. Valenti Angelo   n/a 
1936 Caddie Woodlawn    Carol Ryrie Brink Illus. Kate Seredy   n/a 
1935 Dobry    Monica Shannon Illus. Atanas Katchamakoff   n/a 
1934 Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women    Cornelia L. Meigs   n/a 
1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze    Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Illus. Kurt Wiese   n/a 
1932 Waterless Mountain    Laura Adams Armer Illus. Sydney and Adams Armer, Laura Armer   n/a 
1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven    Elizabeth Coatsworth Illus. Lynd Ward   click here 
1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years    Rachel Field Illus. Dorothy P. Lathrop   n/a 
1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow    Eric P. Kelly Illus. Angela Pruszynska   n/a 
1928 Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon    Dhan Gopal Mukerji Illus. Boris Artzybasheff   n/a 
1927 Smoky, the Cowhorse    Will James   n/a 
1926 Shen of the Sea    Arthur Bowie Chrisman Illus. Else Hasselriis   n/a 
1925 Tales from Silver Lands    Charles Joseph Finger Illus. Paul Honore   n/a 
1924 The Dark Frigate    Charles Boardman Hawes Illus. A.L. Ripley   n/a 
1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle    Hugh Lofting   n/a 
1922 The Story of Mankind    Henrik Willem Van Loon   n/a