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The Newbery Medal, established in 1922, is awarded each year to the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Honor books may also be named in addition to the medal winner.
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2008
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz
Honor Books
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
2007
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Honor Books
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord
2006
Criss-Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Honor Books
Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
2005
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Honor Books
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
2004
Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Honor Books:
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague by Jim Murphy
2003
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Honor Books:
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
2002
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Honor Books:
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Honor Books:
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
2000
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books:
Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
1999
Holes by Louis Sachar
Honor Book:
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
1998
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Honor Books:
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
1997
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Honor Books:
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
1996
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Honor Books:
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963 by Christopher Curtis
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
1995
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Honor Books:
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
1994
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Honor Books:
Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's Gate by Lawrence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt by Russell Freedman
1993
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Honor Books:
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
The Dark Thirty by Patricia McKissack
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
1992
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Honor Books:
Nothing but the Truth by Avi
The Wright Brothers by Russell Freedman
1991
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Honor Book:
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
1990
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Honor Books:
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
1989
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Honor Books:
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
1988
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Honor Books:
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Honor Books:
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
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Honor Books:
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhonda Blumberg
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
1985
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Honor Books:
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
One Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
1984
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Honor Books:
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 a Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
1983
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
Honor Books:
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
Doctor De Soto by William Steig
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
1982
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
Honor Books:
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Arkana Siegel
1981
Jacob Have I Loved by Katerine Paterson
Honor Books:
The Fledgling by Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle
1980
A Gathering of Days by Joan Blos
Honor Book:
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
1979
The Westing Game By Ellen Raskin
Honor Book:
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1978
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Honor Books:
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
1977
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Honor Books:
Abel's Island by William Steig
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
1976
Grey King by Susan Cooper
Honor Books:
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep
1975
M.C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Honor Books:
Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe.by Bette Green
1974
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
Honor Book:
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
1973
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Honor Books:
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1972
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Honor Books:
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan Eckert
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
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Honor Books:
Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
1970
Sounder by William Armstrong
Honor Books:
Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
The Many Ways of Seeing by Janet Moore
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
1969
The High King by Lloyd Alexander
Honor Books:
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
When Slemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Issac Bashevis Singer
1968
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Honor Books:
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
1967
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Honor Books:
The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Jazz Man by Mary H. Weik
1966
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Honor Books:
Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
1965
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
Honor Book:
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
1964
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
Honor Books:
Rascal by Sterling North
The Loner by Esther Wier
1963
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Honor Books:
Thistle and Thyme by Sorche Nic Leodhas
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge
1962
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor Books:
Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz
1961
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Honor Books:
America Moves Forward by Gerald Johnson
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
1960
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
Honor Books:
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
America is Born by Gerald Johnson
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
1959
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor Books:
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 Steele
1958
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Honor Books:
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
1957
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
Honor Books:
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 Foz of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
1956
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Honor Books:
The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Linquist
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
1955
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
Honor Books:
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner in the Sky by James Ullman
1954
...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
Honor Books:
All Alone by Claire Hutchet Bishop
Shadrach by Meindert DeJong
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff
1953
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Honor Books:
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Well
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dagliesh
Birthdays of Freedom by Genevieve Foster
1952
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Honor Books:
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 Mary Buff
1951
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Honor Books:
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
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Honor Books:
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
George Washington by Genevieve Foster
Sound of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter and Marion Havighurst
Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
1949
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Honor Books:
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Gannett
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
1948
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
Honor Books:
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, The Shoe King's Son by Catherine Besterman
Pancakes-Paris by Claire Hutchet Bishop
The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
1947
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Honor Books:
Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
Big Tree by Nancy and Conrad Buff
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore Jewett
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
1946
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Honor Books:
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
New Found World by Katherine Shippen
1945
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Honor Books:
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton
The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
1944
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Honor Books:
Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yeats
Rufus M by Eleanor Estes
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1943
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Honor Books:
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
1942
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
Honor Books:
Down Ryton River by Eva Roe Gaggin
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1941
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Honor Books:
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
1940
Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
Honor Books:
Boy With a Pack by Stephen W. Meader
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
1939
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Honor Books:
Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Nino by Valenti Angelo
Penn by Elizabeth Jane Grey
1938
The White Stag by Kate Seredy
Honor Books:
Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls WIlder
Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
1937
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
Honor Books:
Audubon by Constance Rourke
The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
Phebe Fairchild by Lois Lenski
Whistlers' Van by Idwal Jones
Winterbound by Margery Williams Bianco
1936
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Honor Books:
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Honk , the Moose by Phil Strong
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1935
Dobry by Monica Shannon
Honor Books:
The Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum
1934
Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs
Honor Books:
The Winged Girl of Knossos by Erick Berry
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padriac Colum
The ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
The Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle
New Land by Sarah Schmidt
Swords of Steel: The Story of a Gettysburg Boy by Elsie Singmaster
The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
1933
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Honor Books:
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
1932
Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
Honor Books:
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
The Fairy Circus by Dorothy Lathrop
Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
The Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis
1931
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Honor Books:
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
Floating Island by Anne Parrish
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
Mountains Are Free by Julia Davis Adams
Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabth Jane Gray
Ood-le-uk the Wanderer by Alison Lide and Margaret Johansen
Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
1930
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Honor Books:
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
The Jumping Off Place by Marian Hurd McNeely
Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales: Episodes from the Fionn Saga by Ella Young
Vaino, a Boy of New Finland by Julia Davis Adams
1929
The Trumpeter of Krakow: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century by Eric P. Kelly
Honor Books:
The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
The Pigtail of Ah Ben Loo by John Bennett
The Runaway Papoose by Grace Purdie Moon
Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney
1928
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Honor Books:
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker
The Wonder-Smith and His Son: A Tale from the Golden Childhood of the World by Ella Young
1927
Smoky, the Cow Horse by Will James
1926
Shen of the Sea by Artuhur Bowie Chrisman
Honor Books:
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padriac Colum
1925
Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
Honor Books:
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Anne Carroll Moore
1924
The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
1923
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Honor Books:
Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Marshall
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padriac Colum
The Great Quest: A Romance of 1826 by Charles Boardman Hawes
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs