Newbery Awards
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. (Where available, links to book trailers on each title are provided.)
2016 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
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Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn’t he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty—and fun—in their routine and the world around them.
The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson's Sons. Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Twelve-year-old Astrid has always done everything with her best friend Nicole. So when Astrid signs up for roller derby camp, she assumes Nicole will too. But Nicole signs up for dance camp with a new friend instead, and so begins the toughest summer of Astrid's life. There are bumps and bruises as Astrid learns who she is without Nicole...and what it takes to be a strong, tough roller girl.
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo.
Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn’t he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty—and fun—in their routine and the world around them.
The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson's Sons. Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Twelve-year-old Astrid has always done everything with her best friend Nicole. So when Astrid signs up for roller derby camp, she assumes Nicole will too. But Nicole signs up for dance camp with a new friend instead, and so begins the toughest summer of Astrid's life. There are bumps and bruises as Astrid learns who she is without Nicole...and what it takes to be a strong, tough roller girl.
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo.
2015 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood. Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize breaking the rules comes at a terrible price, as their story's heart-stopping climax proves a game-changer for the entire family.
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere her teacher is in school--in the hallway...in the teacher's lounge...in the bathroom! This is power. Maybe even superpower! Cece is on her way to becoming El Deafo, Listener for All. But the funny thing about being a superhero is that it's just another way of feeling different... and lonely. Can Cece channel her powers into finding the thing she wants most, a true friend? This funny perceptive graphic novel memoir about growing up hearing impaired is also an unforgettable book about growing up, and all the super and super embarrassing moments along the way.
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood. Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize breaking the rules comes at a terrible price, as their story's heart-stopping climax proves a game-changer for the entire family.
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere her teacher is in school--in the hallway...in the teacher's lounge...in the bathroom! This is power. Maybe even superpower! Cece is on her way to becoming El Deafo, Listener for All. But the funny thing about being a superhero is that it's just another way of feeling different... and lonely. Can Cece channel her powers into finding the thing she wants most, a true friend? This funny perceptive graphic novel memoir about growing up hearing impaired is also an unforgettable book about growing up, and all the super and super embarrassing moments along the way.
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.
2014 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
A girl named Flora and a squirrel named Ulysses, whose life was saved by Flora after he was involved in an incident with a vacuum cleaner, team up to use Ulysses' superpowers to conquer villains and protect the weak.
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes (NES Library)
Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
A girl named Flora and a squirrel named Ulysses, whose life was saved by Flora after he was involved in an incident with a vacuum cleaner, team up to use Ulysses' superpowers to conquer villains and protect the weak.
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes (NES Library)
Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
2013 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (NES Library)
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Examines the history of the atomic bomb, discussing the discovery of the behavior of uranium when placed next to radioactive material, the race to build a bomb, and the impact of the weapon on societies around the world.
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (NES Library)
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Examines the history of the atomic bomb, discussing the discovery of the behavior of uranium when placed next to radioactive material, the race to build a bomb, and the impact of the weapon on societies around the world.
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
2012 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses. Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (NES Library) Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs. |
2011 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida. Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States. Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. |
2010 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid, " a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army. |
2009 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures. The Underneath by Kathi Appelt An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free. The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle Savvy by Ingrid Law (NES Library) Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident. After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live. |
2008 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (NES Library)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (NES Library)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
2007 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life. Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson Sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana in 1917 and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war in Europe. Rules by Cynthia Lord (NES Library) Sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana in 1917 and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war in Europe. 2005 Medal Winner & Honor Books: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman In the mid-1930s, Marian Anderson was a famed vocalist who had been applauded by European royalty and welcomed at the White House. But, because of her race, she was denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. This is the story of her resulting involvement in the civil rights movement of the time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town father's--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot. 2003 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had. 2000 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis Although thirteen-year-old Willa Jo and her Aunt Patty seem to be constantly at odds, staying with her and Uncle Hob helps Willa Jo and her younger sister come to terms with the death of their family's baby. Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899. 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (NES Library) |
2006 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. Whittington by Alan Armstrong (NES Library) Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti A photo-illustrated look at the youth organizations Adolf Hitler founded and used to meet his sociopolitical and military ends; includes profiles of individual Hitler Youth members as well as young people who opposed the Nazis, such as Hans and Sophie Scholl. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland. Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson (NES Library) 2004 Medal Winner & Honor Books: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town father's--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot. Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, her relationship with her grandmother, her feelings for an older boy, and her plans to be a writer. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy Provides an account of the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793, discussing the chaos that erupted when people began evacuating in droves, leaving the city without government, goods, or services, and examining efforts by physicians, the Free African Society, and others to cure and care for the sick. 2002 Medal Winner & Honor Books: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge near a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea. Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson 2001 Medal Winner & Honor Books: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship. The Wanderer by Sharon Creech Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England. 1999 Medal Winner & Honor Book:
Holes by Louis Sachar As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. |
1998 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily' s friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily' s friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
1997 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer Moorchild by Eloise McGraw The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White |
1996 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner The Great Fire by Jim Murphy |
1995 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer |
1994 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Giver by Lois Lowry Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman |
1993 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant What Hearts by Bruce Brooks The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers 1992 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman |
1991 Medal Winner & Honor Book:
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi 1990 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen |
1989 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers 1988 Medal Winner & Honor Books: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 1985 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox 1983 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley Doctor DeSoto by William Steig Graven Images by Paul Fleischman Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton |
1987 Medal Winner:
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber 1986 Medal Winner & Honor Books: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg Dogsong by Gary Paulsen 1984 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain 1982 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal |
1981 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson The Fledgling by Jane Langton A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle |
1980 Medal Winner & Honor Book:
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian |
1979 Medal Winner & Honor Book:
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson |
1978 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater |
1977 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Abel's Island by William Steig A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond |
1976 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Grey King by Susan Cooper The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis Dragonwings by Laurence Yep |
1975 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene |
1974 Medal Winner & Honor Book:
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper 1973 Medal Winner & Honor Books: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
1972 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1971 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1971 Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
1970 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Sounder by William H. Armstrong Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele 1968 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 1966 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz 1964 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Neville Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North The Loner by Ester Wier 1962 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz 1960 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall 1958 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson Tom Paine, Freedom’s Apostle by Leo Gurko 1956 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen 1954 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
…And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop Shadrach by Meindert Dejong Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff |
1969 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The High King by Lloyd Alexander To Be a Slave by Julius Lester When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer 1967 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik 1965 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Book: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt 1963 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge 1961 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden 1959 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay The Perilous Road by William O. Steele 1957 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen Old Yeller by Fred Gipson The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli 1955 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh Banner In The Sky by James Ullman 1953 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster |
1952 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff
1951 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff
1951 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish
1950 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
George Washington by Genevieve Foster
Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
George Washington by Genevieve Foster
Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst
1949 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps
1936 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry
1935 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Dobry by Monica Shannon
Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum
1934 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry
New Land by Sarah Schmidt
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry
1935 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Dobry by Monica Shannon
Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum
1934 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry
New Land by Sarah Schmidt
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle
1929 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney |
1928 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker 1927 Newbery Medal Winner: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James |
1926 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum
1925 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum
1925 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
1924 Newbery Medal Winner:
The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes |
1923 Newbery Medal Winner:
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting |
1922 Newbery Medal Winner & Honor Books:
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs