Newbery Medal Winners by the Year
2011 Winner Newbery Medal
Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
Moon Over Manifest, Clare Vanderpool’s first novel, is set in the fictional small town of Manifest, Kansas, which is based on the real southeastern Kansas town of Frontenac, home of both of her maternal grandparents. Drawing on stories she … read more
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When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
2009 Winner Newbery Medal
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book is a children's fantasy novel by British-born author Neil Gaiman. The story is about a boy named Nobody Owens who, after his family is killed by a mysterious man, is subsequently adopted and raised by the occupants of an old gr… read more
Shop Now2007 Winner Newbery Medal
The Higher Power Of Lucky
by Susan Patron
Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. It's all Brigitte's fault --… read more
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The Tale Of Despereaux
by Kate Dicamillo
The Tale of Despereaux, also known as The Tale of Desperaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread is a 2003 Newbery Medal winning children's fantasy book written by Kate DiCamillo. It tells the story of a mouse… read more
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A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
2001 Winner Newbery Medal
A Year Down Yonder
by Richard Peck
A Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck that won the Newbery Medal in 2001. It is a sequel to A Long Way from Chicago, which itself received a Newbery Honor. "The year is 1937, and the Great Depression has hit the Dowdel family hard. 15-ye… read more
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Bud Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Bud, Not Buddy is a 1999 children's novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. The book is the winner of the 2000 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award that is given in recognition of o… read more
Shop Now1999 Winner Newbery Medal
Holes
by Louis Sachar
1998 Winner Newbery Medal
Out Of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust is a verse novel written by Karen Hesse. It was winner of the Newbery Medal in 1998, Scott O'Dell Award, an ALA Notable Children's Book, an ALA "Best book" a School Library Journal "best book of the year", … read more
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The View From Saturday
by E L Konigsburg
1995 Winner Newbery Medal
Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech and published in 1994. It won the 1995 Newbery Medal. At the beginning of the story, Salamanca Tree Hiddle is taking a road trip with her grandparents to visit her mother in Lewiston, Idaho. To pass … read more
Shop Now1994 Winner Newbery Medal
Giver
by Lois Lowry
Jonas, a young man governed by the control of tyrannical society is selected to be the next Receiver of Memory. In a world where everything is grayscale, he begins to receive memories of the past from the current Receiver. As Jonas begins to experi… read more
Shop Now1993 Winner Newbery Medal
Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant
Missing May is a children's book, the recipient of the 1993 Newbery Medal. It was written by Cynthia Rylant, who has written over 60 children's books such as The Islander. The novel is set in present-day West Virginia. The protagonist is Summ… read more
Shop Now1991 Winner Newbery Medal
Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
Maniac Magee is a young adult fiction novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and homelessness, it follows the story of an orphaned boy looking for a home in the fictional Pennsylvania town of… read more
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Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
Number the Stars is a work of historical fiction about the Holocaust during World War II by Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is the central character, who lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1943 and was cau… read more
Shop Now1988 Winner Newbery Medal
Lincoln
by Russell Freedman
A description of the boyhood, marriage, and young professional life of Abraham Lincoln includes his presidential years and also reflects on the latest scholarly thoughts about our Civil War president. A Newbery Medal Book. This title has be… read more
Shop Now1987 Winner Newbery Medal
The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman
1985 Winner Newbery Medal
The Hero and The Crown
by Robin McKinley
1983 Winner Newbery Medal
Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt
The Newbery-winning novel in Cynthia VoigtâÈçs timeless series is repackaged with a modern look. When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unk… read more
Shop Now1982 Winner Newbery Medal
A Visit To William Blake's Inn
by Nancy Willard
1981 Winner Newbery Medal
Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson
Jacob Have I Loved is a novel by Katherine Paterson that won the 1981 Newbery Medal. The title refers to the sibling rivalry between Jacob and Esau in the Jewish and Christian Bible, and comes directly from Romans 9:13: As it is written, "Jacob … read more
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The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game is a novel by Ellen Raskin that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1979. It has been adapted into a movie, released under both the names The Westing Game and Get a Clue. The sixteen heirs of magnate Sam Westing are called upon at the r… read more
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Bridge To Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia is a work of children's literature about two lonely children who create a magical forest kingdom. The author is Katherine Paterson, and the book was published in 1977 by HarperCollins. In 1978, it won the Newbery Medal. Pater… read more
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Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry
by Mildred Taylor
1976 Winner Newbery Medal
The Grey King
by Susan Cooper
The Grey King is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Cooper which was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1976. It is the fourth of five stories in her young adult Arthurian fantasy cycle, The Dark Is… read more
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The Slave Dancer
by Paula Fox
The Slave Dancer is a children's book written by Paula Fox and published in 1973. It tells the story of a boy who witnessed first-hand the savagery of the African slave trade. The book not only includes a historical account, but it also touches u… read more
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Julie Of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
1971 Winner Newbery Medal
The Summer Of the Swans
by Betsy Byars
Summer of the Swans is a novel by Betsy Byars that won the Newbery Medal in 1971 about fourteen-year-old Sara Godfrey's search for her missing, mentally retarded brother Charlie. Summer of the Swans was filmed as Sara's Summer of the Swans fo… read more
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Sounder
by William H Armstrong
Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stea… read more
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High King
by Lloyd Alexander
1968 Winner Newbery Medal
From the Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler
by E L Konigsburg
When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money,… read more
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Up a Road Slowly
by Irene Hunt
1966 Winner Newbery Medal
I, Juan De Pareja
by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
1965 Winner Newbery Medal
Shadow Of a Bull
by Maia Wojciechowska
1963 Winner Newbery Medal
A Wrinkle In Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. The book won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. It is the first… read more
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The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare
1961 Winner Newbery Medal
Island Of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
1960 Winner Newbery Medal
Onion John
by Joseph Krumgold
Onion John is a novel written by Joseph Krumgold and published in 1959. It was the winner of the 1960 Newbery Medal. The story is set in 1950s New Jersey, and tells the story of 12-year-old Andy Rusch and his friendship with an eccentric hermit who l… read more
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The Witch Of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
1958 Winner Newbery Medal
Rifles For Watie
by Harold Keith
1957 Winner Newbery Medal
Miracles On Maple Hill
by Virginia Sorenson
1955 Winner Newbery Medal
The Wheel On the School
by Meindert De Jong
The Wheel on the School is a novel by Meindert DeJong that won the 1955 Newbery Medal for children's literature and the 1957 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. The book was illustrated by noted author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. Fred Inglis, in … read more
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And Now Miguel
by Joseph Krumgold
... And Now Miguel is a novel by Joseph Krumgold that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1954. It deals with the life of Miguel Chavez, a 12-year-old Hispanic-American shepherd from New Mexico. It is also th… read more
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Secret Of the Andes
by Ann Nolan Clark
1952 Winner Newbery Medal
Ginger Pye
by Eleanor Estes
1951 Winner Newbery Medal
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Winner of the Newbery Medal! When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, Amos never lost his dinity and courage. … read more
Shop Now1950 Winner Newbery Medal
The Door In the Wall
by Marguerite De Angeli
1949 Winner Newbery Medal
King Of the Wind
by Marguerite Henry
1948 Winner Newbery Medal
The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pene Du Bois
The Twenty-One Balloons is a novel by William Pène du Bois, published in 1947 and awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1948. The story is about a retired schoolteacher whose ill-fated balloon trip leads h… read more
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Miss Hickory
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946 Winner Newbery Medal
Strawberry Girl
by Lois Lenski
Strawberry Girl is a Newbery medal winning novel written and illustrated by Lois Lenski. It was first published in 1945. Set in the U.S. state of Florida in the early 20th century, the story deals with two families, the Boyers and the Slaters. The Bo… read more
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Rabbit Hill
by Robert Lawson
1944 Winner Newbery Medal
Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
Johnny Tremain, a 1943 children's novel by Esther Forbes, retells in narrative form the final years in Boston prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution. The novel's themes include the apprenticeship system, the conflicts in Boston betw… read more
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Adam Of the Road
by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Adam of the Road is a novel by Elizabeth Janet Gray that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1943. Set in thirteenth-century England, the book follows the adventures of a young boy, Adam. After losing his spa… read more
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Matchlock Gun
by Walter Edmonds
1941 Winner Newbery Medal
Call It Courage
by Armstrong Sperry
1939 Winner Newbery Medal
Thimble Summer
by Elizabeth Enright
1938 Winner Newbery Medal
The White Stag
by Kate Seredy
The White Stag (Narnia), object of the final quest of the Kings and Queens of Narnia in the C.S. Lewis book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The White Stag, a children's short novel, recipient of the 1938 Newbery Medal. The White Stag or Cs… read more
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Roller Skates
by Ruth Sawyer
1936 Winner Newbery Medal
Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
Caddie Woodlawn is a popular children's novel by Carol Ryrie Brink, and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman which won the John Newbery Medal in 1936. Set in the 1860s, it is about a lively eleven-year-old tomboy named Caroline, nicknamed "Cadd… read more
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Dobry
by Monica Shannon
1934 Winner Newbery Medal
Invincible Louisa
by Cornelia Meigs
1933 Winner Newbery Medal
Young Fu Of the Upper Yangtze
by Elizabeth Lewis
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze is a book by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1933. The story revolves around Fu Yuin-fah, the son of a widow from the countryside of western Chin… read more
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Waterless Mountain
by Laura Adams Armer
Waterless Mountain is a novel by Laura Adams Armer that was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1932. It is the story of Younger Brother, a Navajo Indian in the 1920s whose wish is to follow in the footst… read more
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The Cat Who Went To Heaven
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Cat Who Went to Heaven is a 1930 novel by Elizabeth Coatsworth that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1931. It was based on an old Buddhist folk tale, and is a highly symbolic work dealing with the conc… read more
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Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
by Rachel Field
Hitty Her First Hundred Years is a memoir written in the voice of a doll, Mehitabel, or Hitty for short, constructed in 1822 from the wood of a Mountain Ash tree from Ireland by a peddler stranded during a winter storm at a house in Maine. After … read more
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The Trumpeter Of Krakow
by Eric P Kelly
The Trumpeter of Krakow is a young adult historical novel by Eric P Kelly, first published in 1928 by Macmillan. It won the Newbery Medal for Excellence in 1929. The story takes place in historic Poland in the Middle Ages and centers around a secret … read more
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Gay-Neck, the Story Of a Pigeon
by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon is a 1928 children's novel by Dhan Gopal Mukerji that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1928. It deals with the life of Gay Neck, a prized Indian pigeon. Mukerji wrote th… read more
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Smoky the Cow Horse
by James Will
Smoky the Cowhorse is a novel by Will James that was the winner of the 1927 Newbery Medal. The story details the life of a horse in the western United States from his birth to his eventual decline. Smoky is born in the wild, but is captured and train… read more
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Shen Of the Sea
by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Shen of the Sea is a collection of short stories by Arthur Bowie Chrisman that won the Newbery Medal in 1926. Chrisman's original stories are written in the style of humorous Chinese folk tales. The title story tells of a king who tries to match … read more
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The Voyages Of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was the second of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books to be published, coming out in 1922. It is nearly four times longer than its predecessor and the writing style is pitched at a more mature audience. The scope o… read more
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The Story Of Mankind
by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The Story of Mankind was written and illustrated by American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon and published in 1921. In 1922, it was the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children… read more
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